What is Vegetal / Montanov 68?

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

How is Vegetal / Montanov 68 made?

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

Not the same as alcohol.

Even though "alcohol" is in the term fatty alcohol, they are absolutely not comparable to each other. Fatty alcohol is in no way like the alcohol you know as an irritating drying substance. Fatty alcohols are fatty, waxy substances found in plants. They protect the plant against drying out and external influences. For the skin too, they are soothing, protective and hydrating.

Benefits

Hydrates, 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 for water and oil to coexist. The skin needs fat to retain moisture.

The skin's balance is disrupted when moisture loss occurs due to a lack of skin fat. To support this balance, you need a cream that contains both oil and water. Vegetal/ Montanov 68 ensures that oil droplets are distributed over the skin via a lamellar structure so that the skin's moisture and fat content remains at the right level.

More benefits of Vegetal/Montanov 68.

• PEG-free emulsifier

• Rich skin feel

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

• Effective for moisture loss

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

• Suitable for a broad pH range

How do you 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, you 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. Add the emulsifier to your oil mixture and it must be heated to 70-75 degrees before it is mixed with the water phase, which must also be at 70-75 degrees.

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