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Achieving white coloured cream with essential oil content
I’ve found quite a few products on the shelf which claim to contain ingredients like arnica oil and vitamin E oil which I know have an amber hue, yet the cream is paper white.
I assumed most of them are using only trace amounts, but this product lists arnica as the second ingredient:
Purified Water, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Isopropyl Alcohol, Natural Menthol USP, Yerba Mate Extract, DimethylSulfone (MSM), Tocopheryl (Vitamin E), Aloe Leaf Extract, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Phenoxyethanol, Capryly Glycol, Sorbic Acid, Polysorbate 20, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf oil, EDTAAny tips on how this is achieved? Or is this just a misrepresentation of ingredient content?
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4 Replies
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Arnica Montana Flower extract is not an oil. It’s probably just a 1% solution of all the water soluble components of the plant. Or they just made a mistake on their ingredient list. Since this list isn’t properly done (e.g. Purified Water does not belong on a cosmetic ingredient list) they are a bit lax on following the ingredient listing rules.
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Yes, and saying that an ingredient is ‘USP’ or ‘BP’ is also not correct labeling. It’s very similar to a situation with ubiquinone in nivea moisturizers. Ubiquinone will color lotion even at 0.2%, I don’t even know how much they use to have that lotion paper white.
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In an OTC “Drug Facts” Label, you would reflect that you used USP grade as permissible labeling.
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They probably left out the emulsifiers and fatty alcohols too.
I doubt they could achieve a proper cream only with Polysorbate 20, even with carbomer.
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