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Essential oils and viscosity
A client is wanting a bath tonic that is very heavy on essential oils. They sheer everything. How to thicken?
10% camphor
5% lime essential oil
5 % basil essential oil
5% ethocydiglycol (used as a fragrance enhancer)
10% peg 6/ capric glycerine’s (and) polyglycerol 6 dioleate (and) glyceryl caprylate
5% pine bark extract
59% water
1% phenoxyethenolI’ve also tried hec
it’s all water in the end.
How can I get a bit more viscosity? -
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Oh I’ve tried poly 20 instead of CME as well. Tonic must be clear.
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Looking to solubilize all that essential oil? 30% w/w of the total? Nothing I know of will do that task. Best solubilizer I know is PolySugaMulse D9 from Colonial Chemical and you’d still need at least 3X that to do this. Solution: tell your client this will be an anhydrous tonic and inform them the meaning of “anhydrous”; then you’ll have a clear path to success, and yes, pun intended there.
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chemicalmatt said:Looking to solubilize all that essential oil? 30% w/w of the total? Nothing I know of will do that task. Best solubilizer I know is PolySugaMulse D9 from Colonial Chemical and you’d still need at least 3X that to do this. Solution: tell your client this will be an anhydrous tonic and inform them the meaning of “anhydrous”; then you’ll have a clear path to success, and yes, pun intended there.
Oh thank you! Honestly I was freaking out that I’m missing something. You made my day
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