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decyl and luryl glocoside
are decyl and lauryl glocoside changable?
are their detergency efffect same? -
5 Replies
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Good question.Why don’t you test them both and find out?
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I can test it but how I find out? in which way? with active measurement?
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generally lauryl glucoside has longer carbon chain thus has higher viscosity than decyl glucoside. and longer carbon chain also tends to be milder on skin. so if i have to answer the question i would say decyl glucoside has better “detergency effect”.
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Yes, also their concentration of active matter is a bit different (decyl being around 63% and lauryl being around 53%… therefore the thesis that, used at same concentration in a formulation, decyl has a stronger detergency effect seems right also under this point of view).
However, I have substituted a few times lauryl with decyl in my shampoo formulation (at 4%) and I didn’t notice any difference!(but let me add that the shampoo had hydrolyzed proteins, 1% oils and other ingredients which would make surfactants “milder” so the effect might have been “masked” by the formula). Hope you understood what I mean
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thanks
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