Emollients you will love: Avocado oil  (INCI: Persea gratissima (avocado) oil) – part two, fatty acids, triglycerides, and other compounds we find in this oil along with a huge, brand new triglyceride chart!

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A yellow, thick liquid in a plastic shot glass, looking down at the bottom of the cup. It's avocado oil.

Welcome back to part two of this new, massive, three part profile on avocado oil. In part one, we looked at the sensory characteristics, some properties of the oil, and the composition chart. In today’s post, we’re looking at the composition of avocado oil, including the fatty acids and triglycerides. Let’s look at the quick...

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Chemistry Thursday: More on polyatomic ions, short introduction to solubility, and why we don’t use spring, mineral, or tap water in our formulas (part 50)

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Chemistry Thursday: More on polyatomic ions, short introduction to solubility, and why we don’t use spring, mineral, or tap water in our formulas (part 50) Welcome back! Let’s take a closer look at polyatomic ions, some examples of compounds, and why we don’t use mineral, spring, or tap water in our products, as we work...

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Emollients you will love: Avocado oil  (INCI: Persea gratissima (avocado) oil) – part one, summary, sensory characteristics, and properties of this oil.

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Avocado oil in a plastic shot glass on a black background. It is a yellow, viscous liquid.

Welcome to a huge new, multi-part profile on avocado oil in which we’ll be taking a look at all the properties we can about this thickened, gorgeous, non-greasy feeling oil. In this post, we’ll look at a quick summary of why we might like to use this oil, then we’ll take a look at sensory...

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A ton o’ links for foaming facial cleanser formulas you’ll find here on the site…

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I’ve had a lot of requests for facial cleansers over the last few months, and I thought I’d quickly share with you some of my favourite foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleansers. As a note, almost every formula on this site using surfactants is sulfate-free. I have a few Lush products I duplicated that contain sodium coco...

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Welcome to May 2026!

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Woo hoo! Welcome to May 2026! We’ve hard a hard spring so far. We unexpectedly lost our little Sasja dog in early March, which was so far beyond devastating, I’m not going to share more with you lest you become very depressed. A neighbour noticed Raymond was going for walks on his own, and when … Read more