Here’s an ingredient with a mixed pedigree. Lanolin is a pure and rather lovely natural ingredient derived from wool. PEG-75 Lanolin is lanolin that has been ethoxylated. This means that the lanolin is treated with ethylene oxide to make it more water soluble. This enables it to be used in ways that you can’t use lanolin …
After the huge success of BB creams a lot of attention has been given to the rest of the alphabet. We still don’t know what the next combination to take the industry by storm will be. A lot of us thought that the trend would stick with consonants, but there has been interest in vowels …
Polysorbate 80 and the other polysorbates are versatile materials that can be used to create products that might otherwise be impossible.
Glyceryl monostearate, or gylceryl stearate as it appears on ingredient listings, is a widely used emulsifier.
