Phenoxyethanol & Caprylyl Glycol

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Phenoxyethanol & Caprylyl Glycol

Posted by Dtdang on April 15, 2020 at 9:21 pm

Anyone have experiences or knowledge about the combination of Phenoxyethanol and Caprylyl Glycol for preservative?

Thanks and appreciate all inputs.

Graillotion replied 4 years, 4 months ago 7 Members · 10 Replies
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Dtdang

Member
April 17, 2020 at 12:54 pm

@EVchem, phenoxyethanol and caprylyl glycol, is its combination to kill vivid-19?
Pharma

Member
April 17, 2020 at 2:50 pm

Cosmetic preservatives kill at best or else hamper or stop growth of bacteria, yeast, and/or fungi. Most do not kill spores nor inactivate viruses.

What is vivid-19? Do you mean Covid-19? No, they do not inactivate any viruses. There is no point in adding an antiviral compound to a cosmetic product because viruses do not grow in there and usually have a fairly short ‘survival’ time should some get in there.
Dtdang

Member
April 17, 2020 at 3:57 pm

@Pharma, thanks. type of covid-18
Rockstargirl

Member
April 30, 2020 at 2:05 am

dumb question…do you say pheno-Zy-ethanol or phonoxy-ethanol?
OldPerry

Member
April 30, 2020 at 2:19 am

Fee - nox - eee - ethanol
ngarayeva001

Member
April 30, 2020 at 6:51 am

Virus needs a living organism to multiply. Unless those are some sort of bacteriophage and your product is poorly preserved there’s no risk of having viruses in cosmetic product.
Dr Catherine Pratt

Member
April 30, 2020 at 9:23 am

I would use Euxyl 9010- Phenoxyethanol & Ethylhexylglycerin combined. It is from Shulke, works well at 1% and not too expensive. Good luck!
Dtdang

Member
April 30, 2020 at 7:20 pm

Thanks all.
Dtdang

Member
April 30, 2020 at 7:21 pm

Special thanks to @”Dr Catherine Pratt”. I will try it
Graillotion

Member
May 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm

Dr Catherine Pratt said:

I would use Euxyl 9010- Phenoxyethanol & Ethylhexylglycerin combined. It is from Shulke, works well at 1% and not too expensive. Good luck!

How would you compare 9010 with 703? When I asked customer service at my supplier….they recommended 703….for my lotion format….mentioned pH?