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  Lamellar gel article

  Posted by belassi on August 9, 2016 at 7:05 pm

  This is an exceptionally useful article in ULP.

  vitalys replied 8 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  chemicalmatt

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  August 9, 2016 at 7:16 pm

  Hi Belassi. You are right it is; I read this today also.  Deckner managed to pare this down to 3 or 4 paragraphs when the actual science could take up many pages.  For the record, I’ve always had the best result in forming stable lammelar liquid crystalline gels using cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate or a combination of both, 4:1. Easy on the GMS though, or you will see that viscosity creep he writes about.

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  belassi

  Member

  August 9, 2016 at 7:40 pm

  All my emulsions are based on combinations of cetyl alcohol and glyceryl monostearate, or cetearyl alcohol for the low-HLB side, plus either polysorbate or PEG-7 glyceryl cocoate for the high HLB component. Lately I prefer PEG-7 GC.

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  vitalys

  Member

  August 15, 2016 at 3:15 pm

  I have found that 95%DMG work even better in such blends than regular GM and yield beautiful emulsions.

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  beautynerd

  Member

  August 15, 2016 at 8:31 pm

  @vitalys - does dmg stand for distilled glycerol monostearate?

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  vitalys

  Member

  August 15, 2016 at 9:23 pm

  EliseCortes, yes, distilled monoglycerides

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