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Oat shampoo
I am wondering whether I could simply use an oatmeal milk product as part of an oatmeal shampoo. The brand is “Silk” and the ingredients are:
water and oats, sugar cane, calcium carbonate, carob, sunflower lecithin, gellan gum, vitamins E, A, B2, B12, D2, and zinc gluconate. -
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It would be difficult to figure out what the INCI name of the ingredient would be called.
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Isn’t “oatmeal milk” just a water-extract (maceration) of oatmeal?In that case it would be Aqua and Avena Sativa Extract (Oat) Meal Extract (or Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract)
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I think he was specifically asking about using the Silk brand oatmeal milk.
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Yes.
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if you want to do it by the book, you’d have to list each component in the milk on the label, converting the nomenclature to INCI names where needed - same as any other raw material comprised of a mixture -
I think getting the actual concentrations of each component for correctly labelling on relative concentration.This would particularly be of concern if you were, for instance, making a lotion with lecithin as one of the emulsifiers.Of course this concern would be entirely irrelevant if no ingredients are repeated in the formulation and no more than 1% is used.I would, however, be careful as some countries may allow for labelling exemptions of deliberately added ingredients for various reasons (such as a low concentration, carry-over) which in cosmetics should strictly speaking be added to the label.
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