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Chemicals for Consumers Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Today we have a variety of chemical products such as soaps and detergents, paints, plastic, medicines, perfumes, flavours, dyes, fertilisers, herbicides, insecticides and many synthetic materials.

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Soap

Soap- water soluble sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids
+Sapon­ifi­cation
Fats + sodium hydroxide -> soap + glycerol

Detergen

Deterg­ent­-no­n-soap cleansing agent (sodium salt of the organic acid known as sulphonic acid
a)natural detergent b)synt­hetic detergent
Functional group=­(SO3-) / (0-SO3-)

Cleansing action of soap

  

Food Additives

Preser­vative
sodium benzoate- prevent growth of bct & yeast
sodium nitrite-longer shelf-life
Antiox­idant
ascorbic acid -prevent damage due to oxidation
ascorbyl palmitate -prevent damage due to oxidation
vitamin E-prevent damage due to oxidation
Flavouring agents
monosodium glutam­ate­(MSG)-enhance taste of food
Aspartame- 200 X sweetness (OK in diabetes's patient food)
Saccharin-artificial sweete­ner­(in­crease 400 X sweetness)
Stabil­iser* /Thick­ener'
gelatin',acacia gum,lecithin*
starch­',a­gar­-agar ',pectin'
Colouring agents
tartra­zine-normally added to soft drinks­(or­ange)
blue FCF-triphenyl compound (blue)
Tradit­ional medicine(DO NOT TRY!)
Ginsen­g-r­oots-refres­h,e­nhance body strength
Aloe vera-juice from leaves­-treat itchin­ess­,wo­und­s,burn
Mint-l­eaves-increase body temp,i­nduce sweat
Cocain-anaest­hetics
Garlic­-corm-antibi­oti­cs-­reduce stickiness of platelets