essential oils Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:16:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Biomass Deemed a Sustainable Raw Material for Personal Care Products https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biomass-deemed-a-sustainable-raw-material-for-personal-care-products-20121214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biomass-deemed-a-sustainable-raw-material-for-personal-care-products-20121214/#respond Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:16:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29795 Plant-based essential oils are being tapped for important and high value ingredients for sunscreens, perfumes, and other personal care items. The term biomass refers to biological material or recently living organisms, and most often refers to plants or plant-derived materials. This new approach for tapping biomass as a sustainable raw material is called metathesis and […]

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