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Maximum conc. of Mineral oil allowance in skin care products
Is there any of the guild line to mention limit of maximum conc. of Mineral oil in skin care products or else any of the authentic research papers?
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There is none, because mineral oil at 100% is perfectly safe on skin.
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Safe as used up to 99% , CIR Report
Journal Of The
American College Of ToxicologyJACT 3(3):43-99,
1984 confirmed
06/03 IJT
24(S1):67-74, 2005 -
Fine, be picky about the last 1%.
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lol
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Would i get any of the authentic document or directive shows Mineral oil is 100% or 99% safe on skin?
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@ashish -I just gave you one.
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All of this assumes that the mineral oil is of a suitable refined grade.
Engine oil is usually mineral oil but I would be very cautious about using that in a cosmetic product.I recall many years back a lab junior took it upon herself to formulate a product including castor oil as a component. Poor girl could not make a stable emulsion so she asked my advice. It turned out that she had assumed that castor oil was another name for Castrol oil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrol) and had used the latter in her formulation.
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It turned out that she had assumed that castor oil was another name for Castrol oil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrol) and had used the latter in her formulation.
OMG. But I have seen a lot worse. On one of my Nigerian sites (a radio station) I discovered people draining oil out of a high voltage transformer to use as cooking oil. It was full of PCBs among other horrors. -
@David, Thanks for providing reference but i need more one as i didn’t find much on internet.
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http://www.informationng.com/2017/09/must-read-may-risk-nigerians-cooking-transformer-oil.html
> February 1st, 2015 I sat across the Senior Environmental Specialist
of the World Bank (Nigeria) and he explained what a great choice I had
made in my field of study. As our conversation gradually came to a
close, he casually mentioned what he was working on. “I am currently
working on PCBs” . “Nigerians have started using transformer oil to fry
food, because it lasts longer.> We are not the only ones, as other African countries like Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe etc. have also been doing it. They go as far
as going to the transformers to get the oil out. Most of the food
vendors that use it in Nigeria go to areas where there is a transformer
and pour the left-over from the drums.” He said. I froze, maybe I didn’t
hear him well, I thought. Did he just say transformer oil?facepalm.
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