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PFAD: The Palm Byproduct That Became a Climate-Policy Commodity Refine crude palm oil and a sharp-smelling distillate comes off the...

Industrial Fatty Acids: The Oleochemical Alphabet Everything Else Is Spelled With Split any fat — palm, soya, tallow — into...

Myristic Acid: The Fourteen-Carbon Secret of Great Lather Rub a premium soap between wet hands and judge it the way...

Acid Oils: The Refinery’s Confession, the Soap Maker’s Feedstock Every litre of refined cooking oil hides a small confession: refining...

Blown Castor Oil: What Happens When You Teach an Oil to Be Thick on Purpose Most industries fight viscosity; a...

Beeswax: Six Thousand Years of Product Development by Bees Before chemistry had a name, humanity had beeswax. Egyptian embalmers sealed...

ESBO: The Soybean That Keeps Vinyl Alive PVC has a secret fragility: heat it during processing and it begins shedding...

CCT: The Invisible Oil Inside Almost Every Serum You Own Read the ingredient list of any modern serum, cleansing oil...

Omega-3 Powder: Teaching the World’s Most Fragile Nutrient to Behave The omega-3 story has always had a manufacturing problem. EPA...

Residue Waxes: The Bottom of the Wax Barrel Is a Market of Its Own Every gleaming white paraffin candle has...

Sunflower Wax: The Accidental Star of Clean Beauty Nobody set out to make sunflower wax. It appears uninvited when sunflower...

L-Ascorbic Acid: The Molecule That Ended Scurvy and Never Stopped Working Few chemicals carry a résumé like this one. Vitamin...