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  • replacement for Olivem-800

    Posted by Vive-skye on February 3, 2025 at 10:29 am

    greetings!

    Hoping someone can recommend a cosmos-certified PEG-free alternative to olivem 800 which has been discontinued- looking for something to replace it at 2.5-3% to make an opaque, spray-consistency milky serum. I’ve tried both olivem 1000 and ecomulse in the formula and the texture is much thicker/ more gel-like versus the perfect milk I achieved with olivem 800. Also using xanthan to stabilize at 0.3%, which may not be needed with these more robust emulsifiers but even knowing that, the ‘look’ of the emulsion still wouldn’t be right.

    help! SO grateful for any feedback.

    Aniela replied 4 hours, 30 minutes ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Aniela

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    February 7, 2025 at 7:24 am

    Hi,

    The title and explanation are a bit misleading: olivem 800 is not PEG-free as “ceteareth-” refers to a PEG (polyethylene glycol-) ether of cetearyl alcohol; the number behind “ceteareth-” refers to the average number of molecular units -CH2-CH2-O- (explanation under “ceteareth-6” on cosmileeurope.eu)

    That being said, you could check this blog https://formulabotanica.com/organic-sprayable-body-lotion-sucrose-stearate/

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