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Safety of 0.5-1% LABSA in shampoo for pH adjustment
I am making Shampoo with SLS/SLES/CAPB/APG with 14.4% total active surfactant. And adjust pH with citric acid to 4.1. as recently the price of citric acid has increased by 3x, my question is, is it safe to adjust the pH of shampoo with 0.5-1% LABSA instead of citric acid?
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To hop on this question, is it unsafe to adjust pH using strong acids like HCl? I’ve seen that NaOH (strong base) can be used to adjust pH up for ingredients like Carbomer.
Is there a difference in potential for skin irritation at the same pH?
Are there any general principles to know if an acid or base can be safely used in cosmetics (aside from checking to see if it’s been used successfully by reputable manufacturers)?
CosmeticIngredientReview doesn’t return a search result for Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulphonic Acid, any alkylbenzene, or hydrochloric acid (in my case): https://online.personalcarecouncil.org/jsp/IngredInfoSearchResultPage.jsp
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It’s safe, although you already have high asm. I wouldn’t want that near my eyes.
@Mayday yes, it’s safe. In fact major brands use HCl and NaOH to adjust pH.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=182.1057https://incidecoder.com/ingredients/hydrochloric-acid
Sometimes Cosing db is handy: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.simple
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DAS said:It’s safe, although you already have high asm. I wouldn’t want that near my eyes.
@Mayday yes, it’s safe. In fact major brands use HCl and NaOH to adjust pH.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=182.1057https://incidecoder.com/ingredients/hydrochloric-acid
Sometimes Cosing db is handy: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.simple
Thanks
Of course i will reduce that amount of anionic surfactant.
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DAS said:It’s safe, although you already have high asm. I wouldn’t want that near my eyes.
@Mayday yes, it’s safe. In fact major brands use HCl and NaOH to adjust pH.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=182.1057https://incidecoder.com/ingredients/hydrochloric-acid
Sometimes Cosing db is handy: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.simple
As @Mayday and @DAS mentioned, you could use a solution of HCl for cost saving. Now, consider that the lower you go with your pH, the less detergency you’ll have from your anionic surfactants (I don’t see a practical need for going so low in pH).
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@ketchito no need but i go low pH because of better conditioning, being more gentle, needing less preservative.
Every surfactant SLS/SLES/CAPB/APG is at it’s full strength at pH 4. So why would they have less detergency?
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Anionoc surfactants have binding sites not only for metal ions but also for hydrogen protons, so the lower the pH, the more chances the oxygens in your anionics might be interacting with hydrogen ions, modifying the surface activity of those molecules. Not that your anionics won’t work at lower pH, but they’ll have less strenght. Also, SLES hydrolyzes at low pH (at lower than 4, the process is more rapid).
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ketchito said:Anionoc surfactants have binding sites not only for metal ions but also for hydrogen protons, so the lower the pH, the more chances the oxygens in your anionics might be interacting with hydrogen ions, modifying the surface activity of those molecules. Not that your anionics won’t work at lower pH, but they’ll have less strenght. Also, SLES hydrolyzes at low pH (at lower than 4, the process is more rapid).
The system is not strongly buffered at pH 4.1. it has only 0.25% citric acid.
When applied to hair it will be diluted with more than 10 times the amount of water in hair so the pH would be above 5 when it is cleaning the hair so it will be ok.That is what i think.
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If you formulated properly the final product ph will be 5-6 no need for adjustment
Use
Water
EDTA
GLYCEROL
SLES
CC DEA
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Quimico said:If you formulated properly the final product ph will be 5-6 no need for adjustment
Use
Water
EDTA
GLYCEROL
SLES
CC DEA
CA BETAINE
SALT AND ADDITIVESI want it to be below 5
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