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  Using oil-soluble thickeners in O/W emulsions

  Posted by hatasamatter on November 27, 2023 at 1:05 pm

  Hi, is it possible to use thickeners that should be added to the oil phase of a formulation (e.g. beeswax, trihydroxystearine) in an O/W emulsion? Or should they be primarily used for W/O emulsions?

  Thank you for your advice!

  hatasamatter replied 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies

  • beeswax
  • emulsion
  • natural-thickener
  • o/w
  • thickener
  • thickeners
  • w/o
  • water-in-oil
  • wax
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  Paprik

  Member

  November 27, 2023 at 6:40 pm

  Depends, but …

  Sometimes we use a little bit of low HLB emulsifier in O/W emulsion, but I wouldn’t use oil compatible rheology modifier.

  So ok to use beeswax in small input, but I would not use trihydroxystearine. You want to gel the water phase so it holds oil droplets suspended.

  Again, it all depends on the formula etc …

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    hatasamatter

    Member

    November 28, 2023 at 8:26 am

    I see - thank you for your help!

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