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For the latter, the team landed on benzyl benzoate, which mixes awfully slowly with surrounding fluids once this formulation is injected just under the skin, and enables the crystals to aggregate into a solid 'depot' of medication to slowly release into the patient's bloodstream.
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New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2025
According to the team, the trick to the shot was the combination of the crystalline contraceptive levonorgestrel and the solvent benzyl benzoate.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
These include benzyl benzoate lotion, malathion lotion, and lindane lotion.107
Oral Medications
People sometimes need oral medication alone or in combination with a topical medication to treat scabies.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 22 Mar. 2025
Cranberries’ flavor and aroma come from compounds in the fruit, such as cinnamates that add cinnamon notes, vanillin for hints of vanilla, benzoates, and benzaldehyde, which tastes like almonds.
—Rosemary Trout, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
But in this case, the nail polish removers that have the best ratings from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) all contain the same two ingredients: acetone and a bittering agent called denatonium benzoate.
—Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 23 Jan. 2023
The ethanol used to make hand sanitizers is denatured alcohol, made unfit for human consumption by adding compounds such as denatonium benzoate, a very bitter substance with awful taste.
—Lorena Villanueva-Almanza, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2020
Early intervention The City of Milwaukee has been injecting ash trees on streets every other year since 2009 with an insecticide, emamectin benzoate, at a cost of $1 million a year.
—Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
Feeding fish a pesticide with the active ingredient of emamectin benzoate became the tool of choice to control lice, Carr said.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
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New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2025
According to the team, the trick to the shot was the combination of the crystalline contraceptive levonorgestrel and the solvent benzyl benzoate.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
These include benzyl benzoate lotion, malathion lotion, and lindane lotion.107
Oral Medications
People sometimes need oral medication alone or in combination with a topical medication to treat scabies.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 22 Mar. 2025
Cranberries’ flavor and aroma come from compounds in the fruit, such as cinnamates that add cinnamon notes, vanillin for hints of vanilla, benzoates, and benzaldehyde, which tastes like almonds.
—Rosemary Trout, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
But in this case, the nail polish removers that have the best ratings from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) all contain the same two ingredients: acetone and a bittering agent called denatonium benzoate.
—Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 23 Jan. 2023
The ethanol used to make hand sanitizers is denatured alcohol, made unfit for human consumption by adding compounds such as denatonium benzoate, a very bitter substance with awful taste.
—Lorena Villanueva-Almanza, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2020
Early intervention The City of Milwaukee has been injecting ash trees on streets every other year since 2009 with an insecticide, emamectin benzoate, at a cost of $1 million a year.
—Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
Feeding fish a pesticide with the active ingredient of emamectin benzoate became the tool of choice to control lice, Carr said.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
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“Benzoate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/benzoate. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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benzoate
noun
ben·zo·ate
ˈben-zə-ˌwāt 
: a salt or ester of benzoic acid
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