Esters: Formulating with Super Sterol

Super Sterol can be used pretty much anywhere you’d use a regular oil, but as it is a lot more expensive, you might want to save it for those products where you want some serious moisturizing and skin barrier repair, like a facial moisturizer or serum. In this serum for dry skin, we switched the...

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Esters: Super Sterol esters

Super Sterol is a brand name for the product C10-30 cholesterol esters, and it’s produced by Croda. It’s derived from wool wax and shows excellent spreading and excellent adhesion properties. It is a clear, white to yellow, odourless oil like substance that is quite thick compared to other esters. Our stratum corneum lipids contain cholesterol,...

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Update to the Links to Lists section

If you look under the section entitled “Links to Lists”, you’ll see there’s a change – I’ve updated the oils & butters section to be emollients – oils, butters & esters to include links to the posts I’ve been writing on esters. (I’m only allowed 10 pages, so I have to use them sparingly!) If you...

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Esters: Using cetyl esters in hair care products

If you’re making a conditioner, consider using cetyl esters in place of the cetyl alcohol to make a thinner product. You can substitute it 1 for 1 with cetyl alcohol in any conditioner recipe.  Cetyl esters are a great inclusion in a leave in conditioner where you want the boosted substantivity of the cationic quaternary compound without the...

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Point of interest: Aloe vera and the viscosity of foamy surfactant products

I’ve always wondered why the foamy surfactant based products we’ve made in our craft groups – bubble bath, body wash, shampoo, and facial cleansers – weren’t as thick as those I made at home. I thought it was thanks to my use of volume measurements instead of weighted measurements – yeah, I know, I tell...

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