The chemistry of our nails: Whipped butter with lanolin and lecithin

As I’ve been mentioning for a few days, using lanolin and lecithin together in a nail care product will offer maximum moisturizing, water repellency, and those lovely phospholipids our nails really like. So let’s take a look at making a whipped butter with these ingredients. This recipe is rated E for everyone, and is fantastic...

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The chemistry of our nails: Formulating a balm with lanolin and lecithin

As we know, lecithin is a great inclusion in a nail care product as it contains a ton of those wonderful phospholipids, and lanolin is a great barrier ingredient that can repel water. So let’s take a look at formulating a cuticle and nail balm using these ingredients. This recipe is rated E for everyone,...

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Point of interest: Reading INCI information

I’ve been surfing through a few forums today and I noticed three things… First: Everyone seems to call me Swifty! I’m SWIFT (or swift) not Swifty. There is someone else named Swifty and I’ve already changed my name once to avoid confusion. (If you see someone named Celeritas, that might be well be me –...

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The chemistry of our nails: Lanolin

Lanolin is extracted from sheep’s wool grease (the sebaceous secretions of sheep), and is composed of 138 saturated and 32 unsaturated fatty acids with wonderful sterols like cholesterol, lanesterol, and agnesterol, which we know offer great moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties, and cetyl and stearyl alcohols, which are great emollients and thickeners. (The cholesterol is of...

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The chemistry of our nails: Lecithin

So what’s the deal with lecithin? Lecithin is a yellowy substance filled to the brim with various phospholipids or phosphatides, generally extract from eggs or soy beans, although it’s found in all plants and animals. The soy and the egg lecithin do differ a little. The soy has a fatty acid profile of 20% palmitic...

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