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Cool! I’ll have to put in a bid for that plant! (Laughing)
Seriously, I miss doing reaction chemistry. Bang! Boom! Lights, colours, smells! Oh Joy! -
If you want to make a NATURAL shower gel, well, that would be natural soap I should think. Nothing ‘natural’ about Carbomer or coco-betaine. And why magnesium chloride?
First decide if you are going to go the natural soap route (which involves quite a lot of work and experience with saponification of different oils) and a pH of 10, or if you’re going to go synthetic, in which case then you have two possibilities - sulphate free or salt-thickened.I do not recommend sulphate free for a body wash for one simple reason: it will be too expensive.For a salt-thickening body wash, Plantaren APB or Texapon KD S03 are premixed blends that are both low-irritation and wonderfully foamy. -
Perry said: “When marketing a cosmetic product you should put your energy into building your brand. Yes, you want to have excellent working formulas that look and feel cool but the thing that will sell your product is your branding and marketing.”
I totally agree. Recently I was approached by a national pharmacy chain that wanted us to produce products for them under their brand name. I refused because this would merely have turned our small business into a production slave and done nothing whatever to grow our brand. Brand is everything! -
How nice to see two new enthusiastic people! Welcome!
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@alam: Thanks for the idea, but it’s not available in my market.
@David: Can’t make a clear with that, besides which, Head and Shoulders uses it, and I despise that product. H&S is cleverly formulated (in my opinion) to cause irritation (because of its use of SLS) which is then “cured” by the active ingredients. Good marketing but terrible for the consumer. -
Thanks for that, Mark. I’ll look into getting some immediately after the holiday. I was thinking of also trying say 0.5% monolaurin, although that will require going to a hot initial mix. It’s going to take a lot of testing. I think I will have to see if I can recruit a test panel somehow. The problem is once you fix their problem, they are no longer on the test panel (sigh)
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ethanol is ethanol … C2H5OH. I buy 90% pure ethanol (no denaturing additives) from one or other of the chemical factors. However I only use it for container sterilisation.
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EDTA is used in endodontic procedures, it’s regarded as really safe.
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Unless you are planning to export “drinkers perfume” to Saudi Arabia, why not just use regular ethanol?
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Can’t see the point. Rosacea is an inflammatory condition. I’ve been trying to develop a treatment for it but without success. Had much more positive results with treating normal acne.
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Mark, P.Acnes is anaerobic, it lives in the skin, rather than on it, yes?
My question is, does everyone have this in their skin or only acne sufferers? I saw a case the other day and even her arms and hands were breaking out.I’m continuing development on our own product and frankly, I don’t use any lipids at all. Most especially not anything to do with coconut. My testers seem to be showing that the concentration of thyme we’re currently using is not enough, lesions were reduced about 50%, so I will double the concentration. (It is the aqueous extract). -
Thanks Sarah. I do enjoy product design. Sometimes I think, “so many ingredients, so little time!”
@chemist1: I checked with UL Prospector and it appears that Innospec don’t make their surfactants available in Mexico, unfortunately. -
DI (ion exchange) column is also very good. I’m about to install a dual type in my lab, supposedly it produces water suitable for use in a microbiology facility.
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Absolutely. What Mark says is correct. People always sniff the aroma first.
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Thanks everyone. Fragrance is so important. Lots of people told us they buy the hand cream because of its fragrance. It is a knock-off of Ed Hardy, in fact.
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A good quality bottled water will be fine - look for reverse osmosis types and check the stated contents for (eg) sodium content.
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I was really thinking of putting something like “Eternity Fragrance” on the label.
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From THIS I think I would be skating on thin ice.
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I use monolaurin solely in our burn cream, called “Rescue Cream”. The development came about after I read some published papers about the efficacy of aloe vera as a burn treatment. It appears that aloe vera gel is at least as, and possibly more, effective than the still-used silver metal dressing.
Reasoning that the silver is used because of its antibacterial properties, I included monolaurin as the antibacterial agent and emulsifier.Although the product was originally designed to treat first and second degree sunburn, we’ve had reports (and have photos) of arc welding burns etc. that responded very well to it.I approached one of the two local dermatological societies with the idea of a double blind test against whatever they wanted to put up, but that’s another story. -
The FDA have issued a warning letter against the supplier for making false claims. My link above goes to it.
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@nasrins: True. It is dangerous for hearing,
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Yes. I use it in a burn treatment cream based on 100% aloe vera plus antibacterial activity from monolaurin. Good results. Mind you, the FDA doesn’t approve! However studies have been done. GML is ≥ 200 times more effective than lauric acid in bactericidal activity, defined as a ≥ 3 log reduction in colony-forming units (CFU)/ml, against Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes in broth cultures.
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Ah well. Begin experimenting!
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Antibacterial activity.
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Made a test batch today with what I thought might be the final formula %’s and it seems to have worked out pretty well. Still waiting for it to clear but it looks as if it will be properly transparent. I ended up using 20% APB and 5% CAPB and got a really thick smooth shampoo. Testers next. I have to leave out the aloe vera for one person because he’s allergic to it.