GENERAL PRESERVATIVE POSTS Why use a preservative? Preservatives and packaging What contaminants can get into our products How preservatives work Why grapefruit seed extract (GSE) is not a preservative. What’s a formaldehyde donor? Water activity and salt or sugar scrubs Debate: What kind of preservative should we use in sugar/salt scrubs? Hurdle technology (quick summary) Hurdle…...
The home of SwiftCraftyMonkey! Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys). Often strange, occasionally useful, and always worth a stop as a point of interest on your journey through the Intertron.
