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If you're in the market for effective, skin loving, natural surfactants and emulsifiers the lactylates offer an easy solution to your needs. They are so effective at moisturizing the skin that a noticeable improvement is achieved with the very first use and with continued use the benefits become more obvious through healthy, hydrated, glowing skin. If you have clients with true issues like red, itchy or inflamed, skin you can increase their efficiency by adding 2% panthenol and you'll have your customers singing your praises.

We've addressed each one to clear up some of the confusion about which ones to choose, though, they are interchangeable and you will enhance their hydrating power by combining them and allowing them to work together.

The Sodium Stearoyl Lactylates are more appropriate for luxurious lotions and creams while the Sodium Lauroyl Lactylates are move appropriate for surfactant systems and the Calcium Stearoyl Lactylates are the appropriate choice only when you want an oily feel in your product such as with lip balms, hair pomades, and salves, because the calcium will create the bond with the oil on the outside, where almost all other emulsifiers will bond with the oils on the inside.

Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate

Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate is a natural, food grade, emulsifier derived from the sodium salt of lactic acid and the stearic fatty acid.

Offering unsurpassed skin moisturization, and smooth feel on application, this is the emulsifier of choice for all of your natural emulsions. Particularly suitable for your facial products and advance moisturizing products. Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, unlike Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, is not a good foamer.

Due to their sodium backbone the lactylates are able to penetrate the top dead layers of skin to offer:

• residual moisturization
• extended fragrance release
• enhanced delivery of actives

Some important product points to keep in mind when formulating with the lactylates.

• unlike stand alone emulsifiers there are no thickening properties properties
• the lactylate are strong non-ionics and are therefore incompatible with cationics
• *do not use with the cationic proteins (protein plus's)
• *do not use with conditioning guar which is also cationic

Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate

Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate is a natural, food grade, emulsifier derived from the sodium salt of lactic acid and the lauric fatty acid.

Offering unsurpassed skin moisturization, and smooth feel on application, this is the emulsifier of choice for all of your natural foaming products. Particularly suitable for your facial cleansing products. Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate is a great foamer if your formulation is developed for that purpose.

Because of their sodium backbone the lactylates are able to penetrate the top dead layers of skin to offer:

• residual moisturization
• extended fragrance release
• enhanced delivery of actives

Some important product points to keep in mind when formulating with the lactylates.

• unlike stand alone emulsifiers there is are no thickening properties
• unlike the more common surfactants they will not respond to sodium
• the lactylate are non-ionic and are therefore incompatible with cationics
• do not use with the cationic proteins (protein plus's)
• do not use with conditioning guar which is also cationic