Tar and Asphalt
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For my "Blacker than Bulgari Black" project. Smells like cancer 
It's also a showcase for two of Harry's more exotic materials, 2,6 xylenol and phenylethyl mercaptan. Note that his xylenol is sold at 1%, but to make the formula more readable, I've adjusted it to 100% concentration. Xylenol has no IFRA restriction, but my skin reacts pretty strongly to it at 1% and even at 0.1%. At 0.01% it becomes tolerable to my skin. Personally, I'm treating it like p-cresol or a similarly…
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It's also a showcase for two of Harry's more exotic materials, 2,6 xylenol and phenylethyl mercaptan. Note that his xylenol is sold at 1%, but to make the formula more readable, I've adjusted it to 100% concentration. Xylenol has no IFRA restriction, but my skin reacts pretty strongly to it at 1% and even at 0.1%. At 0.01% it becomes tolerable to my skin. Personally, I'm treating it like p-cresol or a similarly…
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