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Ceramides as pearlizer?
I’ve been making a very basic micellar water and one our marketing team is claiming they have seen a micellar water where the addition of some unknown ceramides created a pearl in the product. I’m calling bs because the formula would have to be sufficiently viscous to suspend (to me this goes against the idea of micellar water) and I’ve never seen a ceramide create this affect.
Even if there was no traditional pearlizer, I wouldn’t be able to suspend anything in a water- thin formula right?
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I would be asking for the marketing team to provide a brand name for the product they are referring to.CeraVe has ceramides in their micellar water but it is a clear product so I don’t think that the ceramides would create a pearl effect. -
There is a pearlized effect with some of the micellar water two part systems when they are mixed. It is due to the solubulities of the two phases, not the ceramides.
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Maybe it was tin coated mica? But like you said, it would need to be shaken as micelles water isn’t likely to suspend anything .
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@ozgirl they are talking about a product they were overseeing development of at their last company. No commercial equivalent suggest to me that the pearl (regardless of what it’s coming from) did not stay suspended.
@Microformulation right now I’ve got a one phase solution, but maybe I should look into two phase and see if I can create the effect that way
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