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Why are they all calculating mole ratio wrong?
First i saw several SLS: cetearyl alcohol blends at 1:9 weight ratio claiming LGN formation. Now i saw this study that said ” 1:9 weight ratio of SLS: cetyl, stearyl or cetearyl alcohol has 1:5 mole ratio.”
Why are they all calculating mole ratio of SLS: fatty alcohol wrong?
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@Abdullah The researchers chose a 1:5 mole ratio perhaps arbitrarily. Regardless: thank you so much for sharing this article. It explains a lot about LLC formation with fatty alcohols. Many thanks to you my friend.
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You are welcome
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Hello @chemicalmatt ,
and thank you @Abdullah for making my question possible.
I’m not a chemist, therefore your help is much appreciated: after reading the article, my take is I’ll be better off (stability-wise) if using cetearyl alcohol instead of only cetyl alcohol.
Is that right, or it largely depends on the emulsifier used?
Thank you.
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Yes cetearyl alcohol is more stable
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Thank you.
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