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Ammonia odor. How to mask it in a product?
Hello colleagues.
I work on product containing DMAE glycolate which obviously has ammoniac fishy odor (etreeeeemly unpleasant). Probably someone of you have some experience or method how to mask this fishy smell in cosmetic products. I assume it would be some mix of essential oils or simply a basic synthetic aromatic substance, but don’t know what exactly would work. I would appreciate any of your thoughts regarding this problem. Thank you.
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I suppose the fishes
will always be there with DMAE, but as you said there might be some essential oils which can mask this smell to only SOME extent. -
floral/herbal perfumes, e.g. lavender, are good for masking this type of smell; they’ll not eliminate it altogether, but they should take the edge off it
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@Bill_Toge Thanks a lot for your advise. I’m going to try it and come back to share what I get. I like all your comments here - they always “work”
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Again, thank you Bill_Toge for the advise. I have tried lavender EO and it’s work great. However, I have tried EOs of Litsea Cubeba and Black pepper. I have to admit, the mix of Black Pepper EO ( From India) and DMAE salts works the best way masking the smell. Mix of those two odors yields the absolutely beautiful smell of cedar wood. Excellent! It’s interesting that Black pepper EO from Brazil doesn’t work the same way at all. I also have to note, that any synthetic mixtures don’t work…
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Where on the body will you apply the product? Black Pepper EO can be extremely irritating, same goes for citrus oils… Why do you want to restrict yourself to natural aromatics?
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