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Questions I’ve seen this week: Cetyl esters or alcohol,

August 17, 2012 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

In this post, Anastasia writes, When you have time for a question (totally for my own info!), I am having trouble understanding the difference between cetyl esters and cetyl alcohol. When would I use one over the other? Thanks!In this post on formulating and using thickeners, I take a look at what each fatty alcohol, ester,…

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