Question
Posted on: April 27 2016A dilution of Elocom cream leads to an unstable cream
Answer
elocom 0.1% lipophilic Cream contains: W Itte Petroleum jelly, white beeswax, hydrogenated phosphatidylcholine, Hexyleenglycol, titanium dioxide, aluminium octenylsuccinate starch, diluted phosphoric acid, purified water.
Phosphatidylcholine is a W/O emulsifier and so we have to do with a W/O cream as the name indicates.
1 ° Case: One uses the cold cream Conforma. This base is an O/W cream (abnormal!!) And you will therefore experience an incompatibility of emulsifiers. You will best strengthen the O/W emulsifier by adding Tween 80.
2 ° case: one uses AVA cream or a W/O cold cream: In this case no incompatibility of emulsifiers should occur.