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Hey guys so the interesting aspect of this article is the part about emulsions. Emulsions are basically mixtures of water, oil, and surfactant (something that binds to both oil and water and therefore helps them combine). This topic is interesting in terms of moisturizers because your skin needs oil to moisturizer it but just putting oil on our skin is very messy. Emulsions allow for neat and tidy moisturizers for our skin!

So bringing back an old article, do you guys think we could relate this to what we're learning in class by looking at the process of mixing water, oil, and surfactant. Because water and oil naturally repel, do you guys think that getting them to mix together would be an endothermic reaction, because thats not how they want to be? Just a random thought :D

This site explains all the basics of the chemistry behind cosmetics, such as lotions, moisturizers, chapsticks, etc.

we should pick something that interests us from this site, and go from there, because our topic is really broad, and I feel like right now, we are all over the place.

Article on easier way to make acrylic acid polymers which, after I looked it up, is actually used in a lot of cosmetic products. This may be relevant to what we're studying now because it mentions emulsifying agents (connected to colloids). 

yeah when I was reading articles a lot of the time they mentioned emulsions and colloids and stuff like that. We could definitely talk about that. Also, maybe we could talk about foams and aerosols too. I sense some future blog posts! :D