Emollient

Emollients you will love: Apricot kernel oil (INCI: Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil) – full profile with all the charts!

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A bottle and plastic shot glass sit on a grey background, both filled with a yellow, clear, oily liquid - apricot kernel oil

This profile is part of a project I’ve been working on for the last 18 months or so – my oils encyclopedia with all the information you might want to know about liquid oils, solid oils, and butters. I’m sharing this today as I’d love some feedback on what you think before I get into...

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Chemistry of our oils: What are tocochromanols, the category in which we find tocopherols or tocotrienols? How do they work as great anti-oxidants? 

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As I’m writing up my scarily huge oils, solid oils, and butters reference e-book and working on individual emollient profiles, I’ve realized I need to define a few things, so let’s take a look at tocochromanols, the category of compounds in which we find tocopherols and tocotrienols and other lovely anti-oxidants. Before we start, here...

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Emollients you will love: Jojoba esters 15 (liquid ester)

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You can find jojoba esters in all viscosities with different melting points. We met jojoba esters 30 last year, a solid-at-room-temperature ingredient with a melting range of 42˚C to 51˚C (107.6˚F to 124˚F). Today, let’s meet jojoba esters 15 (INCI: Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Esters), a clear, liquid, odourless, oil soluble liquid emollient you can use...

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Emollients you will love: EMOSMART L19 – hydrocarbon, emollient

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EMOSMART™ L19 (INCI: C15-19 alkanes) is lovely non-polar, super light, thin, fast spreading, low viscosity (8.5 mPa.s) hydrocarbon that’s a great inclusion as a light, non-greasy emollient in any anhydrous or emulsified formula in the heated oil phase. It has a gorgeous matte finish, richer, more velvety than something of similar viscosity, like isododecane, dodecane,...

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Q&A: How can I use medium chain triglycerides (MCT) in face creams or facial products?

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In the monthly Q&A, Medha asked, Mid chain triglycerides how to use it in the face creams or face products? On October 31, 2023, we took a look at this question – Emollients you will love: What’s the difference between MCT, FCO, and CCT? – in which we determined that medium chain triglycerides are the...

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