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Cleansing oil surfactant
Hi Everyone
I am formulating a cleansing oil that contains olive oil, apricot seed oil, jojoba oil and a few other ‘natural’ oils to use in the cleanser.I am looking for a surfactant to use to provide removal of make up etc, the more natural the better.I am stumbled across a peg-7 olive ester but dont really want to use pegs as these days it is seen as nasty.Any other ideas? I was thinking of using tween 20? -
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Are you trying for ingredient label appearances or to actually avoid certain classes of surfactants?
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Polyglyceryl-5-oleate is a PEG-free emulsifier that can serve this purpose. You can get a transparent oil gel as far as you don’t introduce air bubbles while mixing.
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Tween 20 is ethoxylated, so if you want to avoid PEGs you’d have to avoid that too
Ajinomoto do some mild cleansing surfactants based on amino acids and vegetable fats; they’re sold under the tradenames Amisoft and Amilite
more details here - http://www.ajichem.com/en/products/anionic-surfactants.aspx
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Hi great thanks for that I will definitely look into the Polyglyceryl-5-oleate and Ajinomoto.
Bobzchemist more for label appearance really!
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