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GalMOL MOD, enriched with octyldodecyl myristate, serves as a versatile emollient in personal care products. Packaged in carboys, it's ideal for color cosmetics, hair care, and skin care applications. Whether in creams, lotions, serums, or bars, it ensures a smooth, rich feel, improving skin appearance and texture. Perfect for lip care products like lipstick, compact powder, foundation, lip balm, and lip gloss, it offers low odor and tasteless properties, enhancing the user experience. GalMOL MOD meets labeling claims for being natural, aligning with consumer preferences for cleaner ingredients. With its liquid form, it's easily incorporated into various formulations, providing moisturizing benefits and ensuring compatibility.

INCI Name: Octyldodecyl Myristate

Labeling Claims: Natural

Benefit Claims: Binding, Compatibility, Dispersing, Improved Texture, Improves Skin Appearance, Low Odor, Moisturizing, Rich Feel, Smooth Feel, Soft Feel, Tasteless

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Identification & Functionality

Cosmetic Ingredients Functions
Molecular formula
C₃₄H₆₈O₂
Chemical Structure

GalMOL MOD - Chemical Structure - 1

Features & Benefits

Labeling Claims
Product Features

GalMOL MOD plays a multifunctional role in skin & hair care products:

  • It is a skin care emollient with low odor and lack of taste suitable for use in lip care products
  • Improves the appearance and provides smooth feel to the stick products such as lipsticks
  • Provide rich skin feel to the skin care products e.g. cream and lotions
  • Good dispersing properties for pigments
  • Binder for pressed powders
  • Good compatibility with skin
  • Leaves skin smooth, soft & moisturized
  • Enhances texture of skin care products

Applications & Uses

Bath & Shower Applications
Hair Care Applications
Applications
  • Color Cosmetics & Stick Products: Pressed powders, Foundations, Lip color products like Lipsticks, Lip balm and Lip gloss
  • Skin Care products: Creams, Lotions and Serums
  • Bar formulations: Soap bars, shampoo bars

Properties

Physical Form
Appearance
Clear, colorless to pale yellow liquid
Odor
Characteristic
Compatible with
Skin care actives
Specifications
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Colormax. 100.0APHA
Acid Valuemax. 1.0mg.KOH/g
Hydroxyl Valuemax. 10.0mg.KOH/g
Saponification Value100 - 115mg.KOH/g
lodine Value max. 7.0g.I₂/100 g
Moisture Contentmax. 0.1%
Specific Gravity (at 25°C)0.840 - 0.860

Safety & Health

Safety Information
  • Spill should be contained / collected and disposed off as per the regulations.
  • Avoid ingestion and contact with eyes, skin and clothing.
  • In case of contact with eyes and skin, rinse immediately with plenty of water and seek medical advice, if necessary

Packaging & Availability

Packaging Type
Packaging Information
  • GalMOL MOD is available in 200 kg HMHDPE carboys.
  • Total of 80 carboys i.e. 16 MT can be shipped either palletized or non-palletized in 20 ft. full container load.
  • It is also available in 50 kg carboys.
  • Total of 540 carboys i.e. 27 MT can be shipped palletized or non - palletized in 20 ft. full container load

Storage & Handling

Shelf Life
1 year
Storage and Handling Conditions
  • Store the material in a clean, dry place preferably at < 40°C, away from direct heat and sunlight, strong acids, bases, oxidising agents, hydrogen peroxide and ignition sources.
  • Keep the container tightly closed in dry and well-ventilated place.
  • In the original sealed condition, when stored as suggested the shelf life of the product is one year.
  • Product becomes slightly viscous at temperature below 10°C, but it is easily transferrable.
  • Product may solidify, if stored at < - 5°C. If solidifies, it is recommended to keep the HMHDPE carboys in hot room of 35 - 40°C to restore the material back to original form.
  • Stir to homogenize the product before use.
  • The product has tendency to undergo hydrolysis on prolonged storage in presence of moisture.
  • Once the HMHDPE carboy is opened, re-seal it with proper nitrogen blanketing, and use it within six months.
  • During storage, carboys (non-palletized / palletized) stacking should be 1+1