

PhilGeis
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PhilGeis
MemberNovember 30, 2023 at 6:20 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soapWhat’s pH?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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/
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Yes - stop it. If you don’t know what’s in your ingredients, you should not be exposing consumers to your product.
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OK - it’s not as good and fairly useless vs Gram positives and fungi
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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?
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Activated charcoal in cosmetics is useless.
You’ll need enough for consumers to see it when they use the product.
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PhilGeis
MemberNovember 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.
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PhilGeis
MemberNovember 9, 2023 at 8:40 am in reply to: filtering particles in the bulk produced productAmen Microformulation!! Recall an instance when poor process design had the preservative precipitate - filtration of “particles” left it unpreserved with predictably contaminated.
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Ethanol is your antiseptic active so 60% or greater. Very Very unlikely you’ll be successful with foaming.
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PhilGeis
MemberNovember 7, 2023 at 8:41 am in reply to: Effect of water hardness on SLS surfactant when it is combined with SLES and CAPBCurious re definition of sensitive. SLS innovation and success last century was for the resolution of problems with true-soap based products and hard water.
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Always use multiple preservatives.
1) no single preservative has true broad spectrum efficacy
2) it’s harder for a contaminant to adapt to multiple preservatives vs a single compound
Phenoxy is prob best 0.5%. ECT is over formulated
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PhilGeis
MemberDecember 1, 2023 at 5:57 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soapMike - is the from “yellow grease”?
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PhilGeis
MemberDecember 1, 2023 at 5:53 am in reply to: Need some help with percentages in liquid foaming dish soapI was asking for the pH of the product and the question was directed at the OP. Please let them answer.
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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.
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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”.
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“Hurdle” is a poor preservative approach in consumer use. There’s nothing esp. “intelligent” about it.
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Not aware such data exists for others.
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correction …… with the right challenge test.
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One can see the impact in challenge test results - with the right challenge test resukts.
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Sorry - 10% Emu oil.