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The unmissable event of this year
Monday, March 9, 2015Ingredients

When cosmetics are immersed in… vegetable oil!

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Can you name at least one category of cosmetics that can NEVER contain at least ONE vegetable oil? … No, really? Not even one? And yet there are some. Only a few, that’s true. Which ones? You’ll get the answer at the end of this article!

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They form the base of creams, skincare oils, nourishing conditioners… and all emulsions, broadly speaking. And emulsions, which are a mixture of fats (oils, but also butters and waxes) and water, are the dosage form of the great majority of cosmetics.
There you go; you already have a clue to answer our riddle: look for a cosmetic product that cannot contain fats…

Many types of oil in many products

One of the characteristics of vegetable oils is that, on top of theoretically being able to be incorporated into numerous types of formulation, they are present in a multitude of products, whether they be developed by natural and organic or conventional cosmetics brands.
And we are not talking about only one type of oil! One could imagine only one of them is the cure-all, the least expensive, the least scented, the most easily available, and the easiest to emulsify… But no, almost all of them can be found in formulas. Indeed, if they all belong to the same category of cosmetics ingredients, they are all a bit different.

Textures

It is stating the obvious to say that oils have an oily texture. Of course, there are oily textures and oily textures. …

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