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Vitamin E
Hi everybody,
So I’ve been formulating and I’m satisfied with the end results of my hair cream (o/w).My only issue is that my target customers don’t have that much purchasing power therefore I am trying to reduce costs. Vitamin E is one of those ingredients I’d like to do something about cause it’s expensive. I am currently using 1%.I have seen out there tocopherol acetate which is cheaper, but some formulators say it’s pointless so I have discarded it.I wanna keep using tocopherol but I am not sure what quantity guarantees its antioxidant power.
I have been reading a lot and I am a bit confused.It’s said that at 1% I have antioxidant effect and other skin-hair loving benefits. But if I wanted just the antioxidant property 0,1% of vitamin E 70%is enough in a O/W emulsion?
In an anhydrous product shall I add a bit more like 0,5%?Any insight is welcomeThanks in advance,happy holidays
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6 Replies
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Vitamin E can be a pro-oxidant in larger amounts and less if often more. Combining a low dose of vitamin E with some Rosemary extract (that contains carnosic acid) would likely be better. You don’t really need much of E or rosemary to do a pretty good job. Natural seed oils contain about 15-30 mg/100g of vitamin E, and I usually aim for around that in my products.
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If the antioxidant property is indicated for unsaturated lipids in your formula, then 70% tocopherols should be pro-rated according to your lipid content roughly 0.10% for every 7.0% lipids, or use the rosemary oleoresin as @CedarWind108 suggests as long as you don’t mind that pinkish hue to the product. If you are adding this just as a direct “active” ingredient, just DELETE from the formula because it does jack-zero for hair.
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“Jack-Zero” … trademark that term!
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Amen Mark!!
@chemicalmatt
OK if I use that? -
Jack Zero….and Beegan…Perry is going to have to add a tab…of CCF colloquialisms!
Love it. I always wondered what was less than ZERO…and now I know. Learn something new every day!
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Thank you all! ????
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