1. The Molecules Around Me
By: Jason Lico
1st period

2. Category: Food and Nutritional supplements
Product Information:
Name: Hunt's snack pack pudding
Description: Pudding in a plastic container
Ingredients: Water, Sugar, Modified Tapioca Starch, Vegetable Oil (Contains One or More of the Following: Palm Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Sunflower Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Less than 2% of: Modified Corn Starch Citric Acid, Carrageenan, Potassium Citrate, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Polysorbate Gil Color Added, Malic Acid, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Natural Flavors, Beta Carotene Color.

3. Compound Information Compound 1: Carrageenan
Molecular formula: C12H17O19S3
Inorganic
Summary: a family of linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from red edible seaweeds. They are widely used in the food industry, for their gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties.

4. Compound Information Compound 2: Malic Acid
Molecular formula:  HO2CCH2CHOHCO2H
Organic
Summary:  It is a dicarboxylic acid that is made by all living organisms, contributes to the pleasantly sour taste of fruits, and is used as a food additive.

5. Compound Information Compound 3: Beta Carotene Color
Molecular formula: C40H56
Organic
Summary: β-Carotene is a strongly-colored red-orange pigment abundant in plants and fruits.

6. Compound Information Compound 4: Palm Oil
Molecular formula: CH3(CH2)14CO2H
Organic
Summary:  is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.

7. Compound Information Compound 5: Sugar Molecular formula: C12H22O11
Organic
Summary:  generalized name for a class of chemically-related sweet-flavored substances, most of which are used as food.

8. Category: Healthcare and medical products
Product Information:
Name: Equate Ibuprofen
Description: temporarily relieves minor aches and pains due to: headache, muscular aches, minor pain of arthritis, toothache, backache, the common cold, menstrual cramps, temporarily reduces fever.
Ingredients: colloidal silicon dioxide, corn starch, croscarmellose sodium, hypromellose, iron oxides, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, stearic acid, titanium dioxide

9. Compound Information Compound 1: Colloidal Silicon Dioxide
Molecular formula:  SiO2
Organic
Summary: Colloidal silicas are suspensions of fine amorphous, nonporous, and typically spherical silica particles in a liquid phase.

10. Compound Information Compound 2: Corn Starch
Molecular formula: C12H22O11
Organic
Summary: Corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour or maize starch is the starch derived from the corn (maize) grain.

11. Compound Information Compound 3: Microcrystalline Cellulose
Molecular formula: C6H10O5
Organic
Summary:  term for refined wood pulp and is used as a texturizer, an anti-caking agent, a fat substitute, an emulsifier, an extender, and a bulking agent in food production.

12. Compound Information Compound 4: Stearic Acid
Molecular formula: CH3(CH2)16CO2H
Organic
Summary: saturated fatty acid with an 18-carbon chain and has the IUPAC name octadecanoic acid. 

13. Compound Information Compound 5: Titanium Dioxide
Molecular formula:  TiO2
Iniorganic
Summary: Generally it is sourced from ilmenite, rutile and anatase. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring.

14. Category: Personal hygiene and cleaning products
Product Information:
Name: Axe body spray
Description: Antiperpirant, deodorant and astrignent often used by men.
Ingredients: Aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly is the active ingredient in Axe Deodorant. This substance works as an antiperspirant, deodorant, and astringent. Axe also includes cyclopentasiloxane, ppg-14 butyl ether, stearyl alcohol, peg-8 distearate, hydrogenated castor oil, talc, and bht.

15. Compound Information Compound 1: cyclopentasiloxane
Molecular formula:  C10H30O5Si5
Organic
Summary: Cyclopentasilocxane is commonly used in cosmetics. This is simply silicone that is in liquid form. It is found in hairsprays, sunblocks as well as deodorants.

16. Compound Information Compound 2: ppg-14 butyl ether
Molecular formula: C10H22O3
Organic
Summary: .Propylene glycol-14 butyl ether is used in the cosmetic industry.When applied to the skin,it acts like the skin's own sebum and mosturises the dry epidermal layer of the skin.

17. Compound Information Compound 3: hydrogenated castor oil
Molecular formula: C57H110O9(CH2CH2O)
Organic
Summary: a vegetable oil obtained by pressing the seeds of the Castor plant (Ricinus communis). The common name "castor oil" probably comes from its use as a replacement for castoreum, a perfume base made from the dried perineal glands of the beaver.

18. Compound Information Compound 4: talc Molecular formula: H2Mg3(SiO3)4
Inorganic
Summary:  In loose form, it is the widely used substance known as talcum powder. It occurs as foliated to fibrous masses, and in an exceptionally rare crystal form. It has a perfect basal cleavage, and the folia are non-elastic, although slightly flexible.

19. Compound Information Compound 5: bht (Butylated hydroxytoluene)
Molecular formula: C15H24O
Organic
Summary: Butylated hydroxytoluene, also known as butylhydroxytoluene, is a lipophilic organic compound, chemically a derivative of phenol, that is useful for its antioxidant properties.