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Solid anhydrous formulations with fatty alcohols
Hi there!
Most of anhydrous solid products that I know (e.g. lip balms, solid sticks) use certain types of ingredientes as the thickeners to solidify the formulations. The most common ones that I noticed are beeswax, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, microcristaline wax, ozokerite etc. I was wondering why cetyl alcohol/cetearyl alcohol aren’t used in these types of formulations. They’re significantly cheap and readily available thickening agents… They don’t work out right solidfying anhydrous solid products? Has anyone ever tried it?
Just asking out of curiosity!
Kind regards,
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I use some cetyl alcohol in my lip balm for slip, but I do not believe that it can replace wax as the main thickening ingredient.
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probably cetyl alcohol doesnot has the oil binding ability. By the way , do you know the difference between microcristaline wax and ozokerite wax? Tks!
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Syl said:I use some cetyl alcohol in my lip balm for slip, but I do not believe that it can replace wax as the main thickening ingredient.
I also don’t think it can replace the waxes and the maisn thickening agent. I have a client that want to use it as the sole thickening ingredient and it’s doing some tests, but I actually never tested it.
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michaelpolymer said:probably cetyl alcohol doesnot has the oil binding ability. By the way , do you know the difference between microcristaline wax and ozokerite wax? Tks!
Thank you, Michael!
I unfortunately don’t know the difference between microcristaline wax and ozokerite since I don’t use it in my formulations.
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Im also very interested in this topic. I used behenyl alcohol in my balm. What happened a few months after use and temperature changes is that some behenyl alcohol started going back to white pallets the original state. Have you seen it happen to your balm? Is there a way to prevent it?
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