Ester-C® is Calcium Ascorbate, a unique, exclusive form of vitamin C. It is made using a proprietary, water-based manufacturing process that results in a pH neutral product containing naturally occurring vitamin C metabolites.

* Should I have put the lecithin mix in the fridge to cool it down after I blended it before adding the AA mix?

*I did not stir the mixture while it was in the UC. Should I have. I just kept turning it on until the bubbles were gone.

* My UC "warm" after about 35 minutes. I read some comments about heat having detrimental effects on Vit.C. Would the warmth of the UC be enough to cause harm to the VC?

* I've seen other comments discussing whether or not there was proper encapsulation. I searched the thread for a while and couldn't find the proper resoponse. How exactly can I tell if I have good encapsulation.

*I've seen other people add 1 ts of AA to 1/2 cup of water. Would that be a better way to go

I noticed I bought non-gmo lethicin granules instead of non-gmo soy lethicin granules. Will these lethicin granules work the same as soy lethicin granules? It will be no problem returning them to the online vendor and going to my local store to get soy.

EDIT- I don't understand this packaging. On the front of the lethicin, it says Non-gmo lethicin granules, under the ingredients it says non-GMO soy lethicin granules. The description on the back says lethicin is a naturally occuring compound found in plant and animal. IS IT SOY OR NOT, come on stupid packaging.

The simplest method for preparing liposomes is hydration of dry lipid. The lipid is dissolved in organic solvent along with any lipid soluble compounds to be incorporated into the liposomes. The solvent is commonly removed by rotary evaporation resulting in a thin film of dry lipid. Some solvents can be removed by lyophilisation resulting in a dried lipid cake. An aqueous solution containing water soluble compound to be encapsulated is then added to the lipid film or cake to hydrate the lipid and form the liposomes. The aqueous suspension must be heated above the phase transition of the lipids in order for the liposomes to form. The resulting multilamellar liposomes consists of many concentric lipid bilayers. While all or most of the lipid soluble compounds will be incorporated into the bilayers of these lipsomes, the amount of water soluble compound entrapped is usually very low because these MLV’s (multilamellar vesicles) have a small captured volume. Very little aqueous solute penetrates the onion like layers of hydrated bilayer lipids. The captured volume of these MLV’s (multilamellar vesicles) can be increased by freezing and thawing the liposomes several times. Repeated freezing and thawing ruptures and reforms the MLV’s resulting in an increased number of liposomes with fewer layers of lipids and more aqueous space inside each liposome. Thus the freeze-thawed liposomes encapsulate more aqueous solute and often have a multi-vesicular morphology. The aqueous solute is now uniformly distributed inside each liposome.

High shear methods (such as sonication, homogenization and microfluidization) are used to reduce multilamellar liposomes to unilamellar liposomes at a lowest size limit.

dissolving vitamin C first

then heating the lethicin granules in the solution less that 140 F

then freezing, thawing and

THEN blending for several minutes then sonicating to reduce the size of the liposomes? What do you think? Maggie