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  • PhilGeis

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    December 1, 2023 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Clay mask preservation

    Masks are quasi leave on - not appropriate for isothiazoloinones and the CMIT is not stable > 7 pH

  • PhilGeis

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    November 30, 2023 at 6:20 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    What’s pH?

  • PhilGeis

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    November 28, 2023 at 5:56 am in reply to: Clay mask preservation

    You should start with irradiated clay and supplement with more water soluble preservatives - glycols, organic acids if pH works. What’s your water quality?

    CoA <100cfu/ml ? How did they treat the stuff?

  • PhilGeis

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    November 27, 2023 at 5:53 am in reply to: SugaNate 160NC - Antimicrobial Activity

    The sales brochure offers preserved formulae @ pH’s inconsistent with expected range of effect. Think these folks know nothing of preservation. Consider it as a surfactant, not for any preservation potential.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 21, 2023 at 8:12 am in reply to: How can this be a deodorant?

    Because the label says “deodorant”, is packaged like one and kooks like one. There’s no test it must satisfy. Caveat emptor, esp. with graillotion’s observation.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 17, 2023 at 7:46 am in reply to: stabilizing H2O2 containing oxidant

    Can’t offer a risk assessment based on what your boss “thinks.” But I understand your position. Just make sure your “boss”, not you, is responsible on paper for this product.

    https://www.usptechnologies.com/what-are-h2o2-stabilizers-and-will-they-affect-my-application/

  • PhilGeis

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    November 17, 2023 at 6:24 am in reply to: stabilizing H2O2 containing oxidant

    Yes - stop it. If you don’t know what’s in your ingredients, you should not be exposing consumers to your product.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 14, 2023 at 2:57 pm in reply to: SugaNate 160NC - Antimicrobial Activity

    OK - it’s not as good and fairly useless vs Gram positives and fungi

  • PhilGeis

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    November 14, 2023 at 6:34 am in reply to: SugaNate 160NC - Antimicrobial Activity

    Doubt it’s anything special re. micro. More gee whiz - note they do not compare to other surfactants. Even marketing does not recommend preservative free.

    Why phenethyl vs,. phenoxyethyl?

  • PhilGeis

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    November 12, 2023 at 8:01 pm in reply to: Activated Charcoal Hair Shampoo

    Activated charcoal in cosmetics is useless.

    You’ll need enough for consumers to see it when they use the product.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 12, 2023 at 3:50 pm in reply to: Filling cosmetics bottles to the top: bad idea?

    Net contents must be right per MAV - not under or overfill.

    Don’t want product squeezed lout merely holding the bottle.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 9, 2023 at 8:40 am in reply to: filtering particles in the bulk produced product

    Amen Microformulation!! Recall an instance when poor process design had the preservative precipitate - filtration of “particles” left it unpreserved with predictably contaminated.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 9, 2023 at 5:46 am in reply to: How to make an ethanol foam

    Ethanol is your antiseptic active so 60% or greater. Very Very unlikely you’ll be successful with foaming.

  • PhilGeis

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    December 5, 2023 at 6:46 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    Mike - testing for safety. How was that done and how does your oil supplier maintain their quality. That was our concern. Despite assurances, RM quality control found a cigarette butt in one batch. That with occasional chemical excursion killed it. btw - what is the color of your material?

    Reference to “fluid” rather than soap. Is that marketing - did you find consumer perception negative to “soap” in this context?

  • PhilGeis

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    December 3, 2023 at 10:34 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    That’s very nice, Mike

  • PhilGeis

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    December 2, 2023 at 8:32 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    Mike, our effort for hand soap required analytical qualification of every lot and those results indicated lack of quality control despite supplier’s assurances. The primary driver then was cost - as most folks learn, quality is costly. Think one would need to validate supplier’s “process” as with any primary ingredient.

    I’d not get carried away with “biodegradability” beyond the ingredient that appeals to a lot of consumers’ perceptions of natural vulnerability in this context. Appreciate that the product has found a niche in this regard.

  • PhilGeis

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    December 1, 2023 at 8:42 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    We explored the use of used cooking oil (“yellow grease”) for soap production and abandoned the idea based on lack of assurance of chemical quality. We were working with a well know global fast food chain. Cost was the objective. Many batches were ok, but the frequency batches with chemical quality issues made this an unreliable source.

  • PhilGeis

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    December 1, 2023 at 5:57 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    Mike - is the from “yellow grease”?

  • PhilGeis

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    December 1, 2023 at 5:53 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soap

    I was asking for the pH of the product and the question was directed at the OP. Please let them answer.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 29, 2023 at 6:07 am in reply to: Clay mask preservation

    Micro quality?

  • PhilGeis

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    November 22, 2023 at 10:51 am in reply to: MSDS interpretation

    like matt said

  • PhilGeis

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    November 21, 2023 at 8:08 am in reply to: Dishwashing liquid

    An idea levels in that commercial product? Chloromethyl might be a stability problem at that pH esp. if any free amines. Methyl is good but needs ~100 ppm.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 21, 2023 at 5:57 am in reply to: new formula for natural cosmetics

    I too await the citations. Pretentious claims for natural ingredient safety are typically based on absence of any safety data. As a toxicologist pal commented - “the only totally safe ingredient is the one that no one has tested”.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 21, 2023 at 5:43 am in reply to: new formula for natural cosmetics

    “Hurdle” is a poor preservative approach in consumer use. There’s nothing esp. “intelligent” about it.

  • PhilGeis

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    November 9, 2023 at 8:41 am in reply to: Sodium benzoate in toothpaste

    Not aware such data exists for others.

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