Chapter 7: The Bedroom Check Access
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Published:29 Jun 2015
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Chemistry at Home: Exploring the Ingredients in Everyday Products, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015, ch. 7, pp. 168-202.
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The products we use in the bedroom involve chemistry in a very personal way. They determine the way we look and the way we make love. How we look is how the world sees us, and after some image-conscious people have spent time in their bathrooms they may spend as much time at the dressing table using the products that cosmetic and fragrance chemists have devised. There are thousands of these, designed to make people look younger and more attractive. In this chapter we will look at typical ones such as foundation, lipstick, mascara and nail varnish. Then we will look at a face cream that offers additional benefits, and a luxurious body cream. There are times in this room when the other kind of chemistry, sex, comes to the fore and again chemistry may be there to enhance our enjoyment of the great game of life.