Natural Emulsifier (Vegetal / Montanov 68)

What is Vegetal / Montanov 68?

Vegetal/Montanov 68 is a plant-based emulsifier that ensures that your homemade facial products become beautiful mixtures. An emulsifier helps to mix water-based ingredients with oil-based ingredients, so that you get a beautiful even cream or lotion that is excellently absorbed by the skin.

How is Vegetal / Montanov 68 made?

Vegetal/ Montanov 68 consists of a combination of glucose (Cetearyl Glucoside) and fatty alcohol (Cetearyl Alcohol). The fatty alcohols from this Vegetal come from palm oil, coconut oil and rapeseed oil. Through a process called "glycosylation", the sugar chains of the glucose are linked to the fatty alcohols. It is then filtered and pressed into pellets.

Not the same as alcohol.

Even though there is "alcohol" in the term fatty alcohol, they are absolutely not comparable. Fatty alcohol is in no way similar to the alcohol you know as an irritating drying substance. Fatty alcohols are fatty, waxy substances that occur in plants. They protect the plant from drying out and external influences. They are also soothing, protective and moisturizing for the skin.

Benefits

Moisturizes, protects and softens the skin

Vegetal/ Montanov 68 is a non-ionic emulsifier with a lamellar structure that resembles the lamellar structure of our own skin.

What is a lamellar structure? Simply put, this means that our skin has devised a clever system to allow water and oil to coexist. The skin needs fat to retain moisture.

The balance of the skin is disturbed when moisture loss occurs due to a lack of skin oil. To restore this balance, you need a cream that contains water in addition to oil. Vegetal/ Montanov 68 ensures that oil droplets are distributed over the skin via a lamellar structure so that the moisture and fat content of the skin is restored.

More benefits of Vegetal/Montanov 68.

• PEG vrije emulgator

• Rich skin feeling

• Long-lasting hydration (up to 5 hours after application)

• Effective for fluid loss

• Emulsifies all types of vegetable and synthetic oils, waxes and butters.

• Suitable for a wide pH range

How to use Vegetal/Montanov 68

You add Vegetal/Montanov 68 to the oil phase of your formula. Depending on the thickness of the cream or lotion you want to make, add 3% to 8% Vegetal to your recipe. If you are a beginner we recommend starting with a ratio of 25% oil, 6% Vegetal/Montanov and the rest water.

Vegetal/Montanov 68 works well with oils, but also with butters and waxes. You add the emulsifier to your oil mixture and it should be heated to 70-75 degrees before it is mixed with the water phase, which should also be at 70-75 degrees.

To properly incorporate Vegetal/ Montanov 68 into your products, it is smart to also add a stabilizer to your water phase, such as 0.2% xanthaangom.