Banana Wax Project Essay

This year’s science fair I will be creating a couple of makeup products. I will be making makeup wipes and lipstick made of crayons. Also I will be comparing how homemade makeup products work to store bought products. In doing so, there will be some research to be done about the history of makeup and how the ingredients for these products will work to do their job. Makeup has been part of human kind for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians used copper and lead to make some of the world’s first cosmetic. Over the past yeas, women have used matches that were burned to darken their eyes. Also using different types of berries to stain their lips and using young boys urine to fade their freckles. Some even swallowed ox blood to attempt to improve their complexions. Women throughout the time of history have put their own health at risk with homemade cosmetics. For example, using arsenic, lead, mercury, and even leeches to give themselves a pale appearance that was so longed for. By the first century AD, the Romans started to widely use cosmetic like products. For darkening eyelashes and eyelids they used Kohl. For whitening their complexion they used chalk and rogue was used on the cheeks. To clean their teeth they used depilatories and pumice. In a Greco-Roman society women wore white lad and chalk on their faces. The Persian women of this time use henna dyes to stain their faces and skin. They believed that the dyes from henna summoned the majesty of the earth. During the…

a new wax, one created by crystallizing sperm whale oil, became available. This new wax didn’t wasn’t malodorous, and generated a noticeably brighter light than other known waxes.The 19th century provided quite a bunch of important advancements for the candle industry. A modernized candle-making machine was invented by Joseph Morgan in 1834. This machine supplied an availability of unceasing manufacture-ment with the use of a piston to expel solid wax from cylindrical molds. In the 1850’s,…

You will also need a couple peg boards to put the beads on and make your design. An iron, wax paper and masking tape to help finish your design and mend it together. Also, you will need either a pencil or pen for later to puncture the masking tape. If desired for easier placement of the beads on the pegboard, you may want to use tweezers, but the tweezers are not required. The final tool you will need is a heavy book or two to place on top of your design as it cools so it does not warp. The…

Without the use of candles, many Pagan ceremony does not really feel complete. With some traditions, one candle is used to signify the God and an additional one used to signify the Goddess. In others, the candle is used to be a sign of the element of Fire. Candles are frequently a tool in sympathetic magick rituals, and can be used to represent individuals, thoughts, and emotions. A basic candle magick spell consist of choosing a candle centered upon color correspondences, then engraving it…

period given. Aim My aim for this project is to find out if dye in candles can affect the speed rate they burn in. I will test one white candle with a high dye pigmentation candle such as blue or purple against white. Then I will measure…

Modern technology has introduced greater efficiencies and quality control in candle making. Most candles are still made through the timeless process of placing a cotton wick into wax, which is then molded, dipped, extruded, pressed, rolled, drawn, or filled into a desired shape and size. Many of these timeless methods have been updated by using machines to do many of the repetitive tasks. The dipping method is still commonly used, but it has been adapted to entirely automated installations…

Michael Gugliotta 9/29/14 Chemistry Period 8 Title: Observations of a Candle Research Question: Observations are needed to explain the physical world. Introduction: Candles are very useful in science and society. They help provide…

the same bananas at the store every day made me feel comfortable. I knew exactly what I was getting every time I went to the store. No mass difference between types of fruits and vegetables was found. I was ok with this standard. However, after going through the readings throughout this semester my position has changed on my monoculture habituation. It turns out that monocultures pose a lot of threats and with one single variety we…

Fruit Flies - Trade Barrier for Mangoes Mango- often called as King of all Fruits. When Mango is there, anyone hardly asks for any other fruit. Mangoes are famous for their flavor, juice, color and fragrance. Mangoes vary in sizes and color. The colors might be yellow, orange or even red or green when ripe. Different varieties of Mangoes may taste differently and have different textures. Mango is the fruit of tropical and sub tropical zones. Asia falls into this climatic zone, thus this…

Khadra Hassan TA: Hannah Degraaf September 28th 2016 Banana Oil (lab report) Purpose: The purpose of this laboratory experiment was to synthesize banana oil (Isopentyl acetate) from the reaction of Acetic acid and Isopentyl alcohol by the Fischer Esterification reaction. By using the methods of refluxing, washing, drying, and simple distillation to purify the end product. When the product was isolated an IR, H NMR and boiling point were used analysis the product, the end product had a…