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  BenzeneSulfonic acid liquid soap thickness

  Posted by luiscuevasii on January 8, 2015 at 9:45 pm

  Greetings, Im making a liquid soap mainly with neutralized benzenesulfonic acid (10%-20%), but i cant reach mi desire viscosity, im adding SLES and cocoamido propylbetaine with salt to the mix in volumes 3:1 of sles/cocoamido but nothing happends, plus im getting 2 problems, first i cant get a clearly solution, second sles/cocoamido gets thick but with 8%of salt, and when i add 2% or more of sulphonic acid the mix lose the thickness.  
  Am i doing something worng?, im trying to emulate a comercial formula that saids it have those componets.

  Bobzchemist replied 9 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Bobzchemist

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  January 15, 2015 at 10:29 am

  All I can say is that I’ve never gotten anything like this to work.

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  ozgirl

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  January 15, 2015 at 5:21 pm

  I remember seeing an old dishwashing liquid formulation with similar raw materials but I think it contained less benzene sulphonic acid (maybe 5 - 10%) and also had cocamide DEA.

  Try looking for dishwashing liquid formulas.

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  luiscuevasii

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  January 16, 2015 at 9:45 am

  I cant get this soap to get more thick, im going to try with DEA, 

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  Bobzchemist

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  January 16, 2015 at 11:36 am

  Just offhand, potassium oleate has worked quite well for me in the past to thicken clear liquid soap. It does restrict you to higher pH levels though.

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