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Categories Raw Materials & Cosmetic Ingredients Emollients Tridecane/Undecane - Emollients 20 LT Tridecane/Undecane
Product Description
Ingredients: Undecane, Tridecane (Vitamin E Natural)
This ultra-light oily emollient is a natural alternative to cyclomethicone combining high spread ability with a comparable level of pigment wetting power.
This is around 6 times lighter than MCT oil and around ½ the weight of our Natural Silicone Alternative.
While cyclomethicone is heavier than Undecane and Tridecane, its silicone backbone makes it much more flexible and spreadable. However, its inability to be certified as natural mean that Undecane and Tridecane are a great alternative for many skin and haircare brands.
Chemistry
Chemically vegetable oils are triglycerides, that is a combination of one glycerine molecule bonded to three fatty acids, typically with around 16-18 carbons in each chain. Because of this, even the lightest feeling vegetable oils can feel like they weigh down the hair. Vegetable oils are also impossible to spray thus limiting the product options for natural brands.
Undecane and Tridecane are from a different chemical family, straight chain alkanes and it because of this that they feel light and ultra-spreadable.
Undecane has only eleven carbons in its structure while Tridecane has thirteen and neither are bonded to glycerine or have anything else to complicate their structure. This contributes to their ultra-light skin and hair feel, spread ability and fast evaporation rate.
Alkane chemistry has typically been sourced from petrochemicals but there is no reason for this to be the case. Today, many manufacturers are creating alkane chemistry from vegetable feedstocks and allowing natural cosmetics to achieve the same performance aesthetics as their synthetic brothers and sisters.
Origin:
Natural origin from coconut and palm sources.
Appearance:
Clear, colourless liquid with a low viscosity (thin consistency).
Odour:
Low odour, light oil aroma.
Solubility:
Oil miscible.
Heat stability:
Good, can be heated.
Use instructions:
Use in any proportion in skin and hair products including colour cosmetics, massage blends, hair oils and hair conditioning treatments.
Typical use level:
Up to 100% (can use neat).
Most typically used at 1-60% as part of a formula or blend.
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