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Solubilizing tocopherol and ferulic acid
How can I (or what can I use to) solubilize 1% tocopherol in a water-based serum?
How can I (or what can I use to) solubilize 0.5% ferulic acid in a water-based serum?
What if I want to use both in the same formula?
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Hi, can someone please help?
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Likely you are not getting an answer since these are fairly broad topics AND they are really Fundamentals you should be educating yourself on, For example, in this case;- Tocopherol is not water soluble (although there are some forms altered to be so, but rarely used due to issues with PEG’s. Solubulization is a huge topic which you will gain a great deal of benefit from studying formally. For example, the Gold standard is polysorbates. Does this meet your raw material standard? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbgHvi_lqM)
- There are numerous discussions regarding Ferulic acid. When you read these, you will likely learn of the L’Oreal patent for using Ferulic acid to stabilize L-Ascorbic acid.
Again, I am just suggesting that you delve deeper into these topics and read all you can. We could just give spot-on answers, but here I fall into the “give a man a fish…” outlook.
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@Microformulation I couldn’t have said it better 😉 .
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Microformulation said:Likely you are not getting an answer since these are fairly broad topics AND they are really Fundamentals you should be educating yourself on, For example, in this case;
- Tocopherol is not water soluble (although there are some forms altered to be so, but rarely used due to issues with PEG’s. Solubulization is a huge topic which you will gain a great deal of benefit from studying formally. For example, the Gold standard is polysorbates. Does this meet your raw material standard? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbgHvi_lqM)
- There are numerous discussions regarding Ferulic acid. When you read these, you will likely learn of the L’Oreal patent for using Ferulic acid to stabilize L-Ascorbic acid.
Again, I am just suggesting that you delve deeper into these topics and read all you can. We could just give spot-on answers, but here I fall into the “give a man a fish…” outlook.
Thank you for your response!