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Question: How do we know the correct HLB value of oils and butters?

April 27, 2011 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

Melian poses some very interesting questions in this post, and I thought they needed to be answered here! Bear with me as this is a really long post (not that I’m the Queen of Succint-land on normal days, but this one seems really long!)I’m finding disagreements on the hlb of a few oils. how do…

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