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Welcome to part 48 of this Introduction to cosmetic chemistry series in which we’ll be learning about rules of solubility along with a bit more on polyatomic ions. An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a break or take a few weeks...
Welcome back to the new part of this series where we’re taking a look at solubility and why it’s important in cosmetic chemistry. In last week’s post – part 46 – we enjoyed an introduction to solubility, and took a look at magnesium chloride (“magnesium oil”) and allantoin. This week, we’ll take a look at...
Welcome back to section 2 of this Introduction to cosmetic chemistry series I’m sharing every Thursday. In this, the second section of the introduction to cosmetic chemistry series/source (aka second section), we’re focusing on water soluble ingredients, taking a look at solubility, salts, and polyatomic ions, then we’ll work on acids/bases, pH, and all that...
Welcome to part nine of this series on troubleshooting Montanov™ emulsifiers! In today’s post, we’ll look at the facial moisturizer formulas we started to create in part eight using esters, hydrocarbons, and silicones as our emollients to create something super smooth, light, and easy to spread, which will avoid soaping! Woo hoo! This post also applies...
Welcome to part eight of this series on troubleshooting Montanov™ emulsifiers! In part eight of this series, we’ll look at creating a few facial moisturizer that might have less soaping effect by altering the structuring agent to include esters, which are more slippery, more glidy, have lower surface tension, but still increase the viscosity a...