I need to break for an aside here on the chemistry of polysaccharides as this is coming up more and more as I research our cosmeceuticals.What are polysaccharides? They are “polymeric carbohydrate structures formed of repeating units joined together by glycosidic bonds” (from Wikipedia). We can find quite basic ones like two monosaccharides like glucose…
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