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  • Cold emulsifiers

    Posted by chemnc on March 15, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    Does anybody has experience with cold emulsifiers for face and body creams? The ones I checked have a pretty low oil loading capacity.

    chemnc replied 7 years ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • oldperry

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    March 15, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    What ones did you try?

  • chemnc

    Member
    March 15, 2017 at 6:12 pm

    I haven’t yet. I just checked the specs from Clariant. 

  • ssdc

    Member
    March 16, 2017 at 7:04 am

    you are planning to make o/w or w/o lotion?

  • chemnc

    Member
    March 16, 2017 at 11:20 am

    I could do either , although o/w would be preferable.

  • oldperry

    Member
    March 16, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    When you’re creating an emulsion, the emulsifier is one of the last things that you choose. You really need to pick the composition of your oil phase then find an emulsifier that matches the HLB requirements for that oil phase.  

  • chemnc

    Member
    March 16, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    Perry: technically, you are right. From the marketing point of view, composition is the tail that wags the dog.

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