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Posted on: January 20 2015

How do I make as beautiful a gel as possible with 3.28 g salicylic acid powder, 8.2 g sodium chloride, 16.4 g corn starch, 24.6 g water and glycerol to 150g?

Answer

The prescribed gel corresponds to Unguentum Glyceroli BF V. For the preparation, wheat starch is mixed with the   water, in which NaCl is dissolved, and one leaves 10 min. In a TARRED b Eker glas   glycerin is heated to 135 ° C. In this, the salicylic acid could be dissolved. The aqueous suspension of starch is poured into the warm glycerin and is stirred into a thick translucent mass is obtained. After cooling, the Evaporte water is replenished.  

or in the present case the mass will be translucent, depends on the remaining solution of the salicylic acid.