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If you want to use PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate (aka Crodamol STS) in a shampoo, you’ll want to use it around 3% to ensure it doesn’t end up as an oily mess floating on the top of your product. If you’re using it in a shampoo bar where it’s unlikely to separate, you could use it as high...
First note – If you don’t have esters and want to play along with the recipes, you can use a very light oil like fractionated coconut or fractionated shea oil in place of most of the esters, except the water soluble ones when you require water soluble oils (for instance, in surfactant based products). You...
You can use PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate anywhere you’d use an oil, so you can include them in anhydrous products like body oils, whipped butters, and lotion bars, as well as emulsified products like lotions and creams. You’ll get the great detackifying properties, additional slip and glide, and a light, non-greasy emollient by including it...
Crodamol STS (aka PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, but I’m typing Crodamol STS instead!) is a PPG-ester that behaves a lot like our alkyl esters! It’s a great detackifier, good spreader, and dry feeling emollient. It offers good film forming abilities on our hair and skin, which is why it’s considered a silicone substitute for dimethicone....
My friend Melissa once asked me why shampoos didn’t seem as harsh or bubbly as they were when we were kids. It has to do with the surfactants we use and the ingredients we use to increase mildness. In the olden days, most – if not all – products used SLS, which is considered a...