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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance & essential oils – let’s sum it all up in this final post for this part (part 66)

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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance & essential oils – let’s sum it all up in this final post for this part (part 66) Join me for the final part of this series on fragrance and essential oils in which we’ll sum up everything we’ve learned about these awesome ingredients and how they affect our products. As a...

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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance & essential oils – Let’s review the masculine scents we met last week, and we’ll update our charts for the series (part 65)

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Join me for this awesome Chemistry Thursday post in which we’re looking at how masculine scents differ from those we’ve met in the series so far. We’ll also look at hexyl cinnamyl (aka hexyl cinnamate or ⍺-hexylcinnamaldehyde), hexamethylindanopyran (Galaxolide), tetramethylacetyloctahydronaphthalenes (Iso E Super, synthetic), and phenethyl alcohol, molecules found in more “masculine” fragrance oils than...

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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance & essential oils – Masculine scents and the molecules we find in them (part 64)

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Join me for this awesome Chemistry Thursday post in which we’re looking at how masculine scents differ from those we’ve met in the series so far. We’ll also look at hexyl cinnamyl (aka hexyl cinnamate or ⍺-hexylcinnamaldehyde), hexamethylindanopyran (Galaxolide), tetramethylacetyloctahydronaphthalenes (Iso E Super, synthetic), and phenethyl alcohol, molecules found in more “masculine” fragrance oils than...

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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance and essential oils – Reviewing how they impact the viscosity of surfactants, meet a few more fragrance compounds and essential oils, and update our charts (part 63)

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A row of brown bottles with green labels sits on the metal plate of a scale. These are essential oils.

Welcome back to our short series looking at the chemistry of fragrance and essential oils as they have such a huge impact on our products, especially surfactant-based ones. In today’s post, we’re reviewing a few more fragrance and essential oils to see how they  impact the viscosity of our surfactants, meeting a few more fragrance...

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Let’s create a gorgeous, foamy, bubbly, lathery™ An Apple a Day foaming facial cleanser – advanced formula, part three – how cationics work! And we’ll review the formula with all the chemistry stuff we’ve learned! 

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Let’s create a gorgeous, foamy, bubbly, lathery™ An Apple a Day foaming facial cleanser – advanced formula, part three – how cationics work! And we’ll review the formula with all the chemistry stuff we’ve learned! Welcome to part three of this advanced series about making a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ An Apple A Day foaming facial...

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