Chemistry of oils: Triglycerides and fatty acids

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If you’re new to chemistry, I encourage you to read this post on molecules and this one on covalent bonding. These are modifications of posts I’ve written in the past with more chemistry information and more asides!  TRIGLYCERIDES! This beautiful molecule to the left is a triglyceride (castor oil, to be exact). It is a molecule...

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Question: How can grapeseed oil have a one year shelf life?

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Julie wrote this great comment in this post, and I had to address it! (I’m editing a bit for length…definitely visit the post to see the conversation in full!) Hi Susan! I looked at my Crafter’s Choice Grape Seed Oil I purchased from WSP about 2 months ago. It says on the bottle it is good for...

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Question: What am I doing wrong?

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I’ve started wearing eye shadow more frequently, but I seem to be unable to apply mascara without getting it all over my eyelids! I’ve tried a few different brands – L’Oreal telescoping (lengthening), LashBlast (volumizing), New York Colour City Curls (curling), Big Curls Don’t Cry (waterproof, curling), and Maybelline Great Lash (volumizing), to name a...

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I’m not dead yet! I think I’m getting better!

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We followed up the well attended mineral make-up group last Thursday – 41 kids, which is a record! – with 19 kids at the Yarrow groups happily making bubble bath and fragrance sprays yesterday. (That’s also a record!) I’m preparing for the tween and teen groups tomorrow in which we’ll be enjoying polymer clay! As...

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Question: How do you know how and what to substitute?

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I get a lot of e-mails asking me to natural up my products, and I thought I’d go over how we can figure out what each ingredient brings to the party so you can make substitutions with the ingredients you prefer. Let’s try an easy one first – my favourite emulsified sugar scrub with Ritamulse...

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