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  • decyl and luryl glocoside

    Posted by nasrins on May 17, 2014 at 12:35 am

    are decyl and lauryl glocoside changable?
    are their detergency efffect same?

    nasrins replied 9 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • bobzchemist

    Member
    May 17, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    Good question.Why don’t you test them both and find out?

  • nasrins

    Member
    May 18, 2014 at 12:07 am

    I can test it but how I find out? in which way? with active measurement?

  • pf_holden

    Member
    June 2, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    generally lauryl glucoside has longer carbon chain thus has higher viscosity than decyl glucoside. and longer carbon chain also tends to be milder on skin. so if i have to answer the question i would say decyl glucoside has better “detergency effect”.

  • Itsallinmyhands

    Member
    June 2, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    Yes, also their concentration of active matter is a bit different (decyl being around 63% and lauryl being around 53%… therefore the thesis that, used at same concentration in a formulation, decyl has a stronger detergency effect seems right also under this point of view). 

    However, I have substituted a few times lauryl with decyl in my shampoo formulation (at 4%) and I didn’t notice any difference! 
    (but let me add that the shampoo had hydrolyzed proteins, 1% oils and other ingredients which would make surfactants “milder” so the effect might have been “masked” by the formula). Hope you understood what I mean :D 
  • nasrins

    Member
    June 8, 2014 at 4:05 am

    thanks

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