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  can 2% decylglucoside turn watery soln to stable hair mousse through foam pump?

  Posted by arastellar09 on April 17, 2025 at 6:26 am

  ingredients for the mousse are some actives, hydrolysed proteins, essential oils, solubiliser etc. in majority water. can decyl glucoside form STABLE foam(like the professional hair mousses) when this product passes through foam pump? or some other chemical or natural ingredient can work better for it?

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  chemicalmatt

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  April 17, 2025 at 10:15 am

  You will want to add a foam stabilizer else it will collapse very quickly. Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose at 0.10% does the job as will hydrolyzed corn starch.

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    arastellar09

    DIY formulator

    April 17, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    isn’t HPMC a thickener? I read that only watery solutions would pass through a foam pump and produce foam.

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