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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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Smell Ho! Why does using a fragrance oil with vanilla make our products brown? (part five)

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Four vials of lotion sit on a table. The first two have a brown/beige colour. The third is almost a bright white. The fourth is a lighter beige colour. Used to illustrate the impact of vanilla on a formula.

Welcome to a new part in the series on fragrance oils series that you can always find in the fragrance oils part of the site, found under the “ingredients” tab in the menu bar. In today’s post, let’s take a closer look at why our products might get a little brown when using a fragrance...

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Discussion: Dessert- and sweet-themed fragrances are in this year! What are your favourite fragrances for this summer? And find links to some of my favourite formulas!

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Finally, it’s my time to shine! I love food-related fragrance oils, and they’re all the rage this year! Read about this a bit in Forbes. (Warning: It is full of pop ups and ads and distracting things.) The yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for normal to oily hair you see below smelled of Tropical Meringue...

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