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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: Introduction to fragrance and essential oils – how they affect surfactants, along with benzene and limonene (part 58)

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Welcome to Chemistry Thursday! I’m on a bit of a tangent for the next few weeks as we’re looking at the chemistry of fragrance and essential oils as they have such a huge impact on our products, especially surfactant-based ones. In this week’s post, we’re defining the differences, looking at benzene, learning about the structure...

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Formulating for the winter: Blending essential oils to make minty snoot blasters™ and headache roller balls (part two)

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Welcome back to this short series on using essential oils to make some awesome minty snoot blasters™ (aka inhalers) and headache roller balls to help chase some of the winter aches, pains, and congestion away. (Not a medical claim, just how I choose to use them.) In Monday’s post, we took a look at the...

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Formulating for the winter: Blending essential oils to make minty snoot blasters™ and headache roller balls (part one)

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I’ve been getting a lot of headache and sinus issues thanks to some really strong spasms in my head, so I thought I’d make a batch of minty snoot blasters™ and roller balls with my duplication of Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy, blends of essential oils with loads of great things, like peppermint or camphor....

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