essential oils

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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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: IFRA maximum skin exposure levels

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Welcome back to part two of this short series on using fragrance and essential oils. Yesterday, we took a look at some things to consider when using fragrance and essential oils, and how much we might use in a product. Today, let’s talk about the IFRA, their maximum skin exposure levels, why those things are,...

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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: Tips, techniques, and discussion!

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You may have noticed that I’ve changed how much fragrance I recommend for products over the years, going from a standard of about 1% for leave on or rinse off products, to suggesting as low as 0.3% or 0.1% for some leave on products. Why? Because fragrance oils seem to have become much stronger in...

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