So, I need to weigh in on the spectroscopic analysis. I assume we are looking at IR and Raman spectroscopy judging by the wavenumbers. Now, the boosters are presumably comprised of different ratios of various higher alkanes. These spectroscopic techniques 1) cannot distinguish between different alkanes but only signal their presence, and 2) are not quantitative (area of bands does not say anything about the quantity of given compounds).
The conclusions from the analysis are flawed.
Separately, the regular and national boosters had very different objective physicochemical properties, i.e., the regular version absorbed much faster into the sponge than the national booster.
And subjectively, they led to different playing properties.