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In the April Q&A, Kirsten asked: Hey here’s a question…have you played with glyceryl caprylate caprate? I am considering playing with it, and wondered if you had any insights, or “for the love of God…don’t do ——-” lol. I haven’t used this ingredient, so let’s take a look at some of the things I found out...
In these posts on surfactants I’ve been writing recently, I’ve mentioned viscosity quite a lot, so I thought we should take a look at this concept. The easy way to think about viscosity is about the thickness of a fluid. Water has low viscosity while something like glycerin has a higher viscosity. I liked this...