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  • ltruong

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    July 8, 2018 at 5:08 am in reply to: snail secretion filtrate

    thank you !

  • ltruong

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    August 2, 2017 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Suggested Cream Base

    you need to use HLB system to calculate the percentages of your emulsifiers (glyceryl stearate and ceteareth-20). Link below will show you how to do that.
    http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com/search?q=hlb
    Cetyl alcohol and mineral oil are thickener and conditioning agents so you have to play with the numbers to get the feel that you want for your cream.
    hope this helps !

  • ltruong

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    July 27, 2017 at 7:43 am in reply to: natural extracts

    thank you Perry !

  • ltruong

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    July 27, 2017 at 7:42 am in reply to: solubilize vitamin E

    Thank you @DRBOB@VERDIENT.BIZ  !

  • ltruong

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    May 24, 2017 at 11:12 am in reply to: polawax

    thank you @Bill_Toge and @johnb for your inputs !

    so is the purpose of having cetylstearyl alcohol to thicken/stabilize  the emulsion like cetyl alcohol in cream?
    and is it better to use Polawax with a low HLB emulsifier otherwise we need to use alot of it in order to make a decent stable emulsion?
    thanks

  • ltruong

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    May 7, 2017 at 4:03 am in reply to: BTMS-50

    @Bill_Toge  thank you !
    I always have difficulty understand this, I thought behentrimonium methosulphate is surface active agent or surfactant which doesn’t mean that its an emulsifer. I was told that one sufactant can’t make a stable emulsion, there must be combination of low, high HLB surfactants and emulsion stablizers. In the case of BTMS, I can see behentrimonium by itself as the solublizer but not an emulsifier.
    I am missing something, could someone please help?
    thanks 

  • ltruong

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    May 1, 2017 at 4:50 am in reply to: improving rub-in of moisturizers

    Hi all,
    just curious, should C25 & GMS be 5.25% instead 1.4% because oil phase is 21%?
    thanks

  • ltruong

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    April 25, 2017 at 10:10 am in reply to: panthenol spray

    @johnb  I have this product in hand and its in english so thats the LOI on the can.

  • ltruong

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    April 22, 2017 at 4:20 pm in reply to: dimethicone in water

    I tried 2:1 ratio of tween 80:dimethicone- I premixed  1% of dimethicone in 2% of tween 80 at 45C and then added into water but didnt work- Maybe I am better off going with water soluble silicone. thank you all !

  • ltruong

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    April 22, 2017 at 5:28 am in reply to: dimethicone in water

    DrBOB- thank you !  what ration of P_80 that you are suggesting?