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If this has to be “natural” I’d use almond oil instead. If not, I’d be looking to use an ester due to the excellent sensorials esters can give.
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Grapeseed oil has a very short shelf life, I would use an alternative to that.
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Microspheres?
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You’re tempting me, Bob.
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“Depending on the formula, the stick starts melting somewhere between 80-90 degrees F”
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Just a thought - have you tested it for melting point?
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Exactly … I didn’t want to be negative, but I rejected carbomers in shampoos after about 6 months of unsatisfactory tests. I’d only use carbomer if I wanted to suspend something, such as Primasponges.
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It doesn’t like surfactants, the recommended one is Aqua SF-1. Good luck.
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I think I have enough problems right now with imports. A sample from the USA is held up (DHL) while the supplier (a really big company) tries to clear it, and I also had to return $400 worth of licorice to China. I’m going to forget about this.
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oil soluble extracts are essential oils of the plant, water soluble are extracts that dissolve in water.
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Bob, you’re quite right. There is, it seems, some abiguity about what konjac root powder is. The stuff in that Amazon supplier’s bottle is krp extract. What I bought was, apparently, actual dried konjac root powder, not the extract. As to if it has any use at all, I have no idea. Make it into a face mask perhaps … (grin)
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Dog knows what they have sent me (from Thailand). I will take it up with the supplier. I tried heating it and it made no difference. It’s just as if I took some fine dry soil from the garden and mixed it with water. How disappointing.
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I can’t even see this working as a diet aid. It says 100% konjac root powder on the packaging. It’s muddy, gritty. It reminds me of henna or turmeric.
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Added a lot more powder. Now it looks like really muddy water. There is NO evidence of any kind of gel. No thickening whatsoever. And this would not make a product… except if you want a mud pack. I think I’ve wasted my money.
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I blended it for several minutes and it still looks like pond water with a sediment
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I’ll try in a little while when I get back to the lab, but at an hour and a half it is still the same, no change.
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But that’s taken internally, and not a study on humans.
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Seconded. It is the solvent for an ingredient in some of our lines and it has great sensorials, I seem to recall that it enhances preservative efficacy, also. A bit pricey, though.
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Suzanne, I am not the best person to ask because I class myself as an amateur chemist. I started when I was 11 making weedkiller/sugar pipe bombs. Nowadays of course you have to grow a beard and read religious books to be into that… no reason not to talk to Unilever, though. And (dare I mention it) Lush?
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Suzanne you reminded me of when I was in the UK last year. I got the train through Port Sunlight, that’s Unilever’s base. From their Web site:
“Port Sunlight is the centre for Unilever’s Home Care and Personal Care R&D, with major programmes for Hair, Laundry, Deodorants and Household Care being run from the site. World famous brands such as Dove, Sunsilk, Rexona, Axe, Domestos, TRESemmé, Comfort, Dirt is Good, Surf and Signal all have Port Sunlight technology inside.”I had a massive histamine attack and fell to the floor of the carriage choking. Fortunately the train moved off before I died. God alone knows what is in the air. -
The extracts are polar or nonpolar?
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940 isn’t any good for that. Try Aqua SF 1.
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The cetearyl alcohol is an emulsifier.
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The Cocamide DEA is not usually regarded as a thickener itself. It shifts the salt thickening curve sideways allowing a smaller amount of salt to be used to thicken. It reinforces foaming which is good because your SLS percentage is not very high. Add betaine to thicken.
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They have some super impressive literature though!