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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

We can relate this post on hydrolysis and what we just did this past chapter with solutions.

Maybe we can go even further and see if it is the different combinations of ingredients that causes reactions. Perhaps it may be the case that one ingredient may be harmless if it is alone, but when combined with something else, it can change its properties.

I'm in the process of writing a blog post on soaps, and iin my research, I basically found that soaps are made from fats and salts, which make the non polar and polar, and so that lets them bind to non polar things like grease and polar things like water, and they lets them wash stuff away. Thats a way we can relate this to the stuff we're learning in class :)

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.

This article talks about breast cancer and parabens, but I think that information about parabens alone could be a very good topic to discuss.  Parabens are found in many shampoos, moisturizers, deodorants, gels, etc. 

We should definitely look more into parabens, because they are found everywhere. But I think it's really interesting how this commonplace chemical in everyone's chapsticks and shampoos and everything is actually found in 99% of breast cancer tissue. I think the concept that these chemicals may cause breast cancer seems a bit spurious, but maybe after reading more articles about parabens, we can find out more about the chemical.

wow this is a really interesting article! I think Jenny is right though- it doesn't look like it can be concluded that these parabens cause breast cancer. The article said that parabens were also found in 100% of the urine samples taken from children and pregnant women so it looks like they are also found in normal healthy people! Are you thinking of writing your blog post on this Amanda?