Chemistry

Chemistry Thursday: More about triglycerides, including looking at some triglyceride profiles, part 38 of the series

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides with part 38 of this series. This week, we’ll look at why knowing the triglyceride profile of an oil or butter is so important, then we’ll look at the triglyceride profiles of apricot kernel oil, rice bran oil, cocoa butter,...

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Chemistry Thursday: Introduction to triglycerides, part 37 of the series

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A row of different oils in plastic bottles. They have different colours ranging from light yellow to dark yellow to clear white and light green.

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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Chemistry Thursday: Esters – the rest of ’em, part 36

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A cup of clear liquid sits on the edge of the metal plate on a digital scale. This is Cation G16S

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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Chemistry Thursday: Glycol esters and sugar (sucrose) esters, part 35

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our look at esters by investigating those that work as emulsifiers. We’ll get into some emulsion theory, information on the HLB system, then get into those esters! Today we’re taking a look at two more categories of esters – glycol esters, like glycol distearate,...

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Chemistry Thursday: Some more esters we use as emulsifiers – glyceryl stearate, glyceryl stearate SE, and lactylate esters – with some emulsion theory, including charge stabilization, part 34

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our look at esters by investigating those that work as emulsifiers. We’ll get into some emulsion theory, information on the HLB system, then get into those esters! Today we’re looking at more esters we use as emulsifiers – glyceryl stearate, glyceryl stearate SE, and lactylate...

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