Where does the expansion $x^\epsilon = 1 + \epsilon\log x + O(\epsilon^2)$ come from?

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In Folland's Quantum Field Theory, he states that for all small $\epsilon$ sufficiently close to zero we have that $x^\epsilon = 1 + \epsilon\log x + O(\epsilon^2)$ and $\Gamma(\epsilon) = \epsilon^{-1} -\gamma + O(\epsilon)$, where $\gamma$ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant and $\Gamma$ is the gamma function.

Where are these two expansions from, are they from some power series expansion? I do not recognize them.