Chemistry

Chemistry Thursday: Happily, we will be continuing this series!

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Hi everyone! Woo hoo, I’ve been posting this series for exactly one year today! 🎉 You’ve responded and I will continue this series/course! I’d love to hear what you’d like to see! I’ll probably put together the last year’s worth of posts into an e-book soon. Yay! If you are interested: Click here to see...

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Chemistry Thursday: More about the impact of the melting point of triglycerides the melting point of cocoa and shea butters that we can use to make awesome products, part 44

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Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides in part 44 by looking at the melting points of various forms of triglycerides in butters, before getting to our fun experiment about the heating and cooling of said butters to see how the way we formulate with them affects their physical properties and sensory characteristics that I’ll be...

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Chemistry Thursday: More about how triglycerides pack together and why that’s important, part 43

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Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides in this part 43 by reviewing how triglycerides pack together and why that’s vital for making awesome products. Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! We took a break for the month of December because I know how busy everyone gets, so let’s pick it back up...

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Chemistry Thursday: Reviewing what we’ve learned about triglycerides so far and how that affects the melting temperature and potential for grains in oils, solid oils, and butters, part 42

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! We took a break for the month of December because I know how busy everyone gets, so let’s pick it back up for 2026! Let’s start with a review of what we’ve learned so far and why it’s important when formulating products! An important note about...

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Chemistry of our oils: What are tocochromanols, the category in which we find tocopherols or tocotrienols? How do they work as great anti-oxidants? 

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As I’m writing up my scarily huge oils, solid oils, and butters reference e-book and working on individual emollient profiles, I’ve realized I need to define a few things, so let’s take a look at tocochromanols, the category of compounds in which we find tocopherols and tocotrienols and other lovely anti-oxidants. Before we start, here...

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