100% Active Cetrimonium Bromide

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100% Active Cetrimonium Bromide

Posted by CosChemFan on April 13, 2015 at 6:53 am

Hello All!

Around sometime last year I ordered about 32oz of Cetrimonium Bromide (CETAB) to try out in different leave-in and deep conditioner applications. From looking around on the web I got the impression that most suppliers available to me offered CETAB as a mixture with fatty alcohols. Much to my surprise when my order arrived I received 100% active CETAB. OK, no big deal I thought. Wrong! I really haven’t found a use for it on it’s own that hasn’t separated or become a useless mess in my personal opinion. From my reading I thought it was a pretty decent surfactant and emulsifier. Wrong again.

Has anyone here formulated with it?

I’ve used it with BTMS and other like cationic emulsifiers with satisfactory results, however, I would like to use it as it’s own conditioner. I’ve tried to formulate it in a sprayable leave-in (worked with well with no oils. People loved it) and as a cream (hasn’t worked well at all). I was thinking of trying it with glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 Stearate to see how that could work out. I’m getting the impression that I greatly misunderstood the information regarding this ingredient…

Cream Leave-in Formula that separated horribly the next day.

CETAB 4.000

Quaternium-31 2.000

Water 70.500

Propyltrimonium 2.000

Rice Quat 2.000

Liquid Silk 2.000

Cetyl Alcohol 4.000

Cetearyl Alcohol 2.000

Crodamol STS 2.000

Coconut Oil 4.000

Shea Butter 2.000

Vitaplex 3.000

Germall Plus 0.500

Fragrance

TEA

Citric Acid

I know it’s missing an emulsifier, but I thought that’s where the CETAB came in at.

CosChemFan replied 9 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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