Chủ Nhật, 2 tháng 9, 2018

The Practical Magic Of Joan Aiken, The Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read

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The Practical Magic Of Joan Aiken, The Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read
Aiken, a children's-book author, treated her fanciful premises with deadpan seriousness, creating an atmosphere that's ironic and enchanted all at once.

September 2, 2018 at 03:43AM
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What sort of vanilla oil/fragrance are people using?

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I only recently discovered that Vanilla is never really an essential oil according to the IFRA and that that in many cases it is fully synthetic. Essential oil is understood as being pressed or steam/water distilled from the plant.

I bought some 'vanilla essential oil' a while ago to put in a balm but now I realise it was probably heavily diluted extract or absolute in alcohol, glycerol or something. I didn't mix properly with the oil phase.

As I understand it the vanilla extract is made by running ethanol through the beans and leaving it to age.

The absolute is made by using supercritical CO2 or ethanol as the solvent.

Or you can get an infused oil like sunflower oil which as been steeped in the beans for some time.

It's a really confusing issue for me since it seems both extract and absolute can use ethanol in the process.

I don't want to use a synthetic vanilla 'cos I want a natural product.

But the cost of non-synthetic stuff is massive. I'm looking at over 300 GBP for 100 ml of absolute. A sunflower oil infusion is 170 GBP for 100 ml.

I've no idea how people sell 'natural cosmetics' with vanilla in them and make money.



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