[Chemist77]

@MarkBroussard yeah I have noticed that few senior members have suddenly stopped posting. Including @johnb as well, hope they all are doing well. 

[Chemist77]

Read on Aquastyle 300, this could be a good choice for overall performance enhancement. 

[Chemist77]

Check with Givaudan, IFF, Firmenich and other biggies if they have flavors in encapsulated powder form in your region.

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Methanol????? really???

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Look at those who ethoxylates, will be surprised if there is no foaming. On the brighter side, it’s all in the process. But minimal foaming is unavoidable.

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what have you been smok……ing???

[Chemist77]

Neutralizing with what?? Think @Microformulation posted a lubrizol link showing best neutralizers for certain percentage of alcohol.

[Chemist77]

In this case try adding little silicone like Dimethicone 200

[Chemist77]

How about doing a trial without PVP, it will be easily established if it is PVP or the ethoxylate. My bet is still on PVP, but as @Dirtnap1 suggested you can try another trial with 20 mole ethoxylate. Will give your a fair idea.

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Mixing period will not decide the pH, your acid to base ratio will. 

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@imasoat anything upto 20% should keep you good plus if you have other surfactants. I use around 12% plus few other surfactants and the results are pretty good.

[Chemist77]

I add my alkali first to water, then LABSA. Can always adjust pH slowly at the end. 

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Can’t say tbh, you need to do it again and see what’s the problem. It’s a wild pH with LABSA neutralization, go pretty slow. 

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@ngarayeva001 those are the serial numbers, but still agree that not for newbie.

[Chemist77]

Try mixing it, check the pH and adjust again. It should be crystal clear, no other way. Or your ABS is just not a good one here.

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I do the soap/synthetic surfactant mix and it has been doing pretty much fine until now. As @DAS reminded, a chelating agent will help in such formulation, I use it too. 
@Gunther for us CAPB is half the price of CDEA/CMEA but a good choice to reduce irritancy. 

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Dilute the alkali further and try again the titration as @Belassi mentioned 

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I am not sure what’s your budget cost here as that blend looks a bit pricey for such home care application. I generally use LABSA, in-situ neutralization and a combination of anionics. If the budget allows then I chuck in some non-ionics as well. But that’s rare. 
For preservative I use glutaraldehyde from Dow Microbial, very effective and cost friendly. And then the specialties depending on the customer needs. 
You can try that blend and I don’t think an issue with the CMEA. I would prefer a higher pH in such applications but with that preservative you are restricted to around 5.0

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@Belassi you are on the way to having your own SNL on chemists corner soon??

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No I was pretty pleased with ceteareth-20 as my main ingredient. 

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As @Microformulation said plus another polymer from Dow. I have done it in emulsion form similar to Osis. Try an Aculyn in combination with PEG90M, won’t be a cheap formulation though. 

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@Belassi I do the foam test as well but generally for home care products. For shampoo, hand wash liquids, shower preparations, etc. we rely on the actual input from the customer. Never ran a foam test for PC applications until and unless asked by the customer. 

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@Belassi any suggestions how to grow an aluminium face, ASAP please ?

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Super thick in same price plus clarity, not a good prospect.

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I will be very interested to know the final results then.