Chemistry Thursday, part 39 – triglycerides and their impact on physical and sensory characteristics of emollients, part 39

A cup of lightly green coloured grassed oil in a shot glass on top of a clear plastic riser.

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides with part 39 of this series. In today’s post, we’re looking at the impact of triglycerides on the physical and sensory characteristics. We’re also looking at iodine values and how we can use those, then we’re taking a side journey...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – adding some actives and increasing the emulsifiers (part 5 with formulas)

Welcome to part five of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be creating a 2% emulsions with the humectants from last week with a few active ingredients, like panthenol, niacinamide, and allantoin. We’ll be adapting the formula to include a heated water phase as well. First, we’ll look...

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

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

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

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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