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Coconut Alkanes as a Replacement for Cyclomethicone (D5) in Skin Care Products?
What is your impression of using Coconut Alkanes (brand name VEGELIGHT 1214 LC™ by Grant Industries, Inc.; INCI Coconut Alkanes [and] Coco Caprylate/Caprate) as a replacement for cyclomethicone (D5) in order to achieve a similar skin feel in skin care products?
What are your favorite non-silicone based ingredients for achieving a similar slip with a light and dry skin feel as dimethicone?
Thanks!
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Do coconut alkanes readily evaporate so they can be a cyclomethicone replacement?
I don’t think there’s any problem with dimethicone so why substitute it?
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Yes, Coconut Alkanes are very nice indeed. Nice, soft skin feel without being greasy in the least.
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@Gunther - Correct, coconut alkanes do not readily evaporate like Cyclomethicone so for applications where evaporation is important, they wouldn’t work as a replacement.
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Perry said:@Gunther - Correct, coconut alkanes do not readily evaporate like Cyclomethicone so for applications where evaporation is important, they wouldn’t work as a replacement.
Being alkanes, aren’t they too drying to skin?
While we have to read their specs, aren’t volatile alkanes too kerosene-like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlkaneAren’t the heavier coconut alkanes roughly similar to petrolatum?
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The lighter coconut alkanes are like a dry oil that are not very viscous … thinner than most vegetable oils. Nope, not drying to the skin at all with a non-greasy feel. They would be comparable to Isododecane.
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