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Does anyone remember the fluro zinc from the 90s?
Hi Everyone.
Does anyone remember the fluro zinc cream from the 90s? The stuff mums would smear on their kid’s nose or what cricket players used?Are there any products still on the market like this? I have trawled google but not had much luck except for an obscure listing on amazon with no product information. Innovadex and the like have also been lacking.I am wanting to replicate this type of product but for dogs.Since I was a kid in the 90s I only have vague memories of it being thick and a bit sticky - not really the most scientific starting point for a formulation.Would it have been an anhydrous balm with high ZnO content or more of an ointment?Any thoughts or clues would be greatly appreciated.Sarah -
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can’t comment on that particular product, but at my last place we used to make an anhydrous zinc and castor cream that sounds very similar to it
if memory serves, it was about 15% zinc oxide (pigment grade), 5% castor oil, 4% lanolin, and petrolatum to 100%; I remember it was a hot-fill product, and an absolute pig to clean outit was intended to be used a barrier cream for babies’ bottoms, so its SPF was never tested -
Personally, I’d mix a non-nano zinc oxide dispersion with petrolatum and call it good. I’d be afraid of using anything else in the formulation that the dog could lick off.
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Thanks for the advice guys - the licking factor is something I keep in the forefront of my mind. I have a paw balm which is becoming a wee bit of a cult item - and I made sure that everything in that formulation was safe to eat. (Not that I could imagine any dog or human wanting to chow down on lanolin or mango butter).
I am going to have to be very careful when I market the product because I do not want to make any explicit SPF claims. Do you think that I could get away with using terminology like UV filter? -
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Good to know! At my day job (at which I only have 8 days remaining - it is a dodgy outfit so I am moving on) they use the term uv filter in a cream with only SPF1.2 i.e. diddly squat.
I will do a bit more brainstorming and market research re terminology. The products are only sold in New Zealand with plans to expand into Australia so I do not have to deal with the FDA thank goodness.
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