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  Ethanol vs Isopropyl Alcohol

  Posted by Rrivet on April 16, 2020 at 1:17 pm

  What are the problems I might run into swapping out Isopropyl Alcohol for Ethanol in a formula?  

  It’s not a hand sanitizer, it’s just a gel product using carbomer.

  Pharma replied 4 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Pharma

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  April 16, 2020 at 6:12 pm

  For +/- identical rheology, you might want to add a bit more ethanol or slightly reduce carbomer and/or swap the base used to neutralise carbomer. Else, there is usually no real trouble.

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