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Shampoo with Camel Urine
Hello everyone,
I am Alamgir, working as a product development chemist in a small scale company in middle east. our company wanted to manufacture shampoo with Camel urine. since recent researches have been found camel urine has excellent properties for dandruff & hair falling control.our parent company cater around 4000 camels & produces fresh camel milk and distribute Middle east as well as in Europe. we will collect camel urine from them & utilize in our product.Can any one enlighten me for camel urine permissible in personal care products according to European Union & if yes, then what is optimum limit?however there are products with camel urine being sold in the market of Saudi Arabia & few personal care products with Cow urine are being sold in Indian market.Regards -
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both camel and cow urine are outside the scope of the EU cosmetic regulationsas it stands, they don’t even have registered INCI names, never mind any toxicology data to prove that they’re safe for human usebecause of that, no safety assessor in their right mind would approve anything containing them; and you wouldn’t able to sell them legally without a safety assessment -
On occassion, I pee in my formulations when my stock of urea is running low.
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Camel and cow urine? Huh?
Hey, don’t you think MarkBroussard’s pee might have much more excellent properties for restoring baldness and reversing all forms of wrinkles and even scars from injuries? -
LOL! It lends new meaning to the term “golden shower”! Hey! Urine is sterile!
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Urine
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Later in the forum:
“My shampoo is releasing a strong smell of ammonia and cats are attracted to me … “ -
I am beginning to like this thread.
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We need a thread with strange / unusual cosmetic ingredients:
http://www.oddee.com/item_98322.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-qbo7F7i_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn7JaB9pqew -
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Later in the forum:
“My shampoo is releasing a strong smell of ammonia and cats are attracted to me … “
>@Belassi- I laughed out loud in a very quiet lab. This thread is getting more hilarious everytime I check back.
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@Perry - Yes, please!
- we need a thread for strange & unusual cosmetic ingredients/chemistry.@heraklit…. some of the ingredients on that list have been noted to be beneficial and would not using them, I mean only Squalene & DE. -
There is also the ingredient sourcing problem to consider. I would not want to be the employee who has to follow the camels around holding a bucket ready for the golden stream.
Not to mention the er, religious problem. I think there might be a marketing issue convincing your customers that only the urine from male camels is being used:The Prophet said: “The urine of a baby boy should have water sprinkled upon it. The urine of a baby girl is to be washed off”. [Abu Dawood, Nasai and Ibn Majah].
And in a more general sense, it may prove difficult to convince the more religious customers that no trace of impurity remains after shampooing the hair… -
Thanks Bill,
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OK. If there is any basis at all in this idea it should be possible to develop a hypothesis as to the causative agent(s).
For instance this:616 Chemical Constituents of Camel’s Urine -
There were a few inside jokes sprinkled through the first edition of the CTFA dictionary. One of the guys who was on the committee to write it clued me in about some - my favorite was sodium gorgonzolate.
(The spoilsports on the committee for the second or third edition took them all out,sadly) -
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