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@em88, as I understand it calcium acetate will basically form a white gel, correct? Is there another substance you would recommend to form a nice clear gel for a hand sanitizer that one wouldn’t have to be worried would spontaneously combust, instead of pyroxylin? I used an acrylate copolymer, but it doesn’t seem to give us the thickness we want, just a very runny almost-gel.

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Hello, I’m a chemical engineer from South Africa working for a company making industrial cleaning products as well as some hand sanitizers. I’m responsible for production as well as formulation of our products.

I am most interested in learning (and later using) the roles of different raw materials together with how and why some can replace others, since I don’t have a lot of experience in formulating yet.