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  • How can I get crystal clear transparent dish washing liquid.

    Posted by Avirock on April 3, 2017 at 7:58 am
    i have do several experiments and still not yet got a crystal clear transparency in my liquid.
    i have used
    Sodium Lauryl Ethyl Sulfate (SLES)
    water (PURIFIED)
    Sodium Chloride (SALT)
    Coconut Diethanolamide (CDEA)
    Linear Alkaline Benzene Sulfonic Acid (LABS)
    Any piece of advice, suggestion or hint to get a crystal clear transparent liquid is most appreciated.
    Thanks
    Gunther replied 5 years, 5 months ago 15 Members · 47 Replies
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  • johnb

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 8:45 am

    Are you using LABS as the free acid or as a salt? If as a salt, what is the neutralising material?

    What are the proportions of each component?

  • Avirock

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 9:23 am

    Thanks for your prompt response.
    i have used 

    500gms Sodium Lauryl Ethyl Sulfate (SLES)
    5 it’s tap water (PURIFIED)
    250gms Sodium Chloride (Industrial Salts)
    50 ml Coconut Diethanolamide (CDEA)
    25 ML Linear Alkaline Benzene Sulfonic Acid (LABSA 96% PURIFIED) – anti-cebo

    i want to get crystal clear gel.

  • johnb

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 9:48 am

    The Linear Alkaline Benzene Sulfonic Acid (LABSA 96% PURIFIED)  requires to be neutralised with an alkali before it can act as a detergent and to be fully soluble in water.

    There is far, far too much sodium chloride present. This may be either not dissolving in the mix or it may be causing the detergents to precipitate.

    Can you explain “5 it’s tap water (PURIFIED)”? Also, what is “anti-cebo”?

    Have you tested the dishwashing efficiency of this mixture? At a first glance, the ratio of the two detergents are wrong - SLES is good for producing foam but its dirt removing properties are very poor.

  • Avirock

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 9:58 am
    first of all 
    Thanks for your prompt response
    i am new in dish wash making business I humbly request you to please guide me the step by step dish wash making formulation on my email id smithjain24@gmail.com.
    Thanks
  • johnb

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    The most convenient way to find dishwashing formulations is to look at detergent manufacturers websites and find sample formulations.

  • Avirock

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    Thanks

  • Chemist77

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    @Avirock please post the formula in 100% first, the first thing that comes to mind is why so much salt. Check the pH and adjust it above 7 although I am not sure why you have used LABSA at all if it so low. By the way what is your benchmark here? 

  • Bobzchemist

    Member
    April 3, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    guide me the step by step dish wash making formulation” is detailed enough that it’s something that you will have to pay a consultant for.

  • johnb

    Member
    April 4, 2017 at 8:06 am

    On a social point, it is very unwise to post your email in public spaces such as this.

    Unscrupulous people/organisations use bots to search through sites such as this one to harvest any published email addresses to use for nefarious purposes.

  • nabil

    Member
    April 4, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    @Avirock you did not mentioned about the preservative?
    i suggest formol in such case , cheap and effective. (0.150 % )
    also, are you going to use fragrance or you want to smell chemical product :)

  • johnb

    Member
    April 5, 2017 at 6:35 am

    I think there are more important problems with this than the choice of preservative & fragrance.

  • nabil

    Member
    April 5, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    johnb, yes there things need to be modified, but sometimes minors are more important than majors

  • chickenskin

    Member
    April 5, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    Heat the water and SLES up to 70C.  Maintain 70C and add CDEA/NaCl.  Remove from heat then add the rest when gets below 50C

    Pure HOH qs
    SLES 25-35%
    CDEA 2-4% (will add thickness)
    NaCl ~2%
    use DDBSA not LABSA ~1% (not really important though id get rid of it)
    DMDM, PE, paraben, grapefruitseed oil (whatever preserve you want) - 0.2%

    clear, 3000-6000cps, pH 5-6.5-ish

  • johnb

    Member
    April 6, 2017 at 6:54 am

    There is a lot more to formulating a hard surface cleaner than making a seemingly random mixture of surfactant materials and hoping for the best because the best in this situation will only be very rarely achieved.

    SLES in included in this type of product as a foaming agent. Its cleaning properties are very poor. It is present merely because the users expect to see a lot of foam when they wash their dishes.

    The “working” surfactant is most often an alkylbenzene sulfonate. This type of surfactant has powerful grease cutting and protein removing properties but its foam is only mediocre - hence the use of SLES and/or other foam boosters such as CDEA (which also thickens the mixture).

    Ideally the cleaning power (from the ABS) and the foaming power (from the SLES and amide) should be matched so that the foam collapse corresponds with the detergency (cleaning power).

    The is no way that any of the formulae offered above could give a marketable product - that is one that a consumer would buy a second bottle.

  • Chemist77

    Member
    April 6, 2017 at 6:59 pm

    @johnb There are chemists here who have good formulae and sell in containers of such products, we are just trying to help without crossing that line where it becomes free professional service. 

  • Soapily

    Member
    April 6, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    Here’s for you. 

    Viscolam
    MAC 10
    10.00
    NAOH .500
    Sorbilen L .0100
    Glycerin .0100
    Allantoin .0100
    EDTA .0100
    Hương .100
    Phenochem NIB .800
    Triclosan .0100
    Menthol Crystals .0800
    DM1000 .0100
    SLES 5.00
    CAB 7.00
    H20 76.46
      100.00

  • chickenskin

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 4:18 am

    @johnb not a random mixture of surf, it actually works.  It’s also cheap.  I was also going off of the OPs formula trying to help OP out.  If he wanted to reformulate I’d be glad to provide a better formula.

  • belassi

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 5:46 am

    Triclosan is no longer a permitted ingredient.

  • Soapily

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 6:39 am

    @Belassi: yes it’s my test base. 

  • johnb

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 6:40 am

    This thread is being populated by posters who seem to have no idea of the problem, who have not worked in this area and are sending formulations for items which have no connection with the subject.

    I am wasting my time here.

  • Soapily

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 6:43 am
    Do not use Triclosan in my product. I used some natural extracts for anti acne. 
  • Soapily

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 6:50 am

    This’s a example formula. SLES and CAB are not recommended for use. I use Eucarol ingredient. Tks to Belassi. Sorry to johnb 

  • nabil

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    too much ingredients for dish wash soap.
    the one that i have less then that and its strong one.

  • Soapily

    Member
    April 7, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    Dish wash gel not soap (short formula):

    Viscolam
    MAC 10
    10.00
    NAOH .500
    Sorbilen L .0100
    Phenochem NIB .800
    DM1000 .0100
    SLES 5.00
    CAB 7.00
    H20 76.68
      100.00

  • Aziz

    Member
    January 30, 2019 at 12:30 am

    Hi , I read all comments , most of them don’t come to your point . 
    Just use Acid slurry instead of LABSA and I hope you will get a crystal clear transparent gel . I also faced this problem . 

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