Home Cosmetic Science Talk Formulating Which one stronger? Phenoxyethanol+glyceryl Caprylate or sorbitan Caprylate?

  • PhilGeis

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    October 2, 2021 at 10:19 am

    Both are wrong.
    Where effective Phenoxyethanol is usually fine at 5000 ppm and the other two are pretty useless in any application.  Pseudomonads have plenty of esterases.

  • Abdullah

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    October 2, 2021 at 1:27 pm

    @PhilGeis there is a blend Nipaguard SCP by Clariant phenoxyethanol/sorbitan Caprylate 7/3. I wanted how will it performs if we use glyceryl Caprylate instead of sorbitan Caprylate in this blend.

  • PhilGeis

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    October 2, 2021 at 1:31 pm

    Don’t waste your money on either - supplier marketing hype.   Efficacy would be phenoxyethanol.

  • Abdullah

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    October 2, 2021 at 3:39 pm

    @PhilGeis I will not purchase them but i have some glyceryl Caprylate in stock and wanted use it in combination with phenoxyethanol in shampoo pH 5 or lotion pH 4 with 0.2% EDTA in both if possible. 

  • Pharma

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    October 2, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    PhilGeis said:

    …Pseudomonads have plenty of esterases.

    This would result in free caprylic acid and, at least in vitro, caprylic acid shows some antimicrobial efficacy and reduces biofilm formation. 🙂

  • PhilGeis

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    October 2, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    Doubt it pharma - lauric might but the longer chain fatty acids  do not and would more likely undergo beta oxidation as substrate for the pseudomonads.

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