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  • Premium feel compared to petroleum jelly

  • Best of jelly characteristics in a cream

  • Non-whitening on application

  • Silky feel

  • Cost typically below petroleum jelly

  • Formula can be manipulated for hair food type products

  • Innovative alternative to petroleum jelly

Jelly Cream Formulation

​Science behind clear / translucent emulsions

  • Achieve by matching the refractive indices (RI, n) of oil and water phases

  • Water (n=1.33) and most water soluble substances have a low RI, typically 1.3 to 1.4

  • Oils, hydrocarbons and silicone oils have RI's from 1.4 to 1.6 

  • It is necessary to adjust the water phase index up and/or reduce the oil phase index

  • Incorporating glycerine (n=1.47), propylene glycol (n=1.43) and water soluble salts (urea, sodium chloride) raises the water phase RI

  • Fragrances and phenoxyethanol also negatively impacts on matching the RI's of the two phases

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