More on Turkey Red Oil

[Guest guest]

Going thru some of my files and I came across this

about Turkey Red Oil. The author is Trina from

Snowdrift Farm

HTH

Heidi

>Any ethoxylated oil will have dispersing

qualities.

>Ethoxylates are made by reacting partially

saponified oil with ethylene oxide under the

influence of a solid state platinum >catalyst.

Sounds high tech, eh? The resulting oil is water

dispersable, and carries oil into the water. Using

only 5% and less of >Sunflower Seed Peg-10, you

can make a fantastic water dispersable oil

products such as dispersing bath oils, non-alcohol

>body sprays, etc. Ethoxylated oils are also very

useful when formulating things like bath melts and

lotions.

>On the other hand, Turkey Red oil is prepared by

sulfating castor oil. Castor oil is unique from

any other fixed oil in that is >contains free

hydroxyl gropups in the fatty acids. These are

reacted with sulphur dioxide under the influence

of a catalyst and >then neutralized. Turkey Red is

one of the original syndets (synthetic detergents)

and is made using the same reaction as >sodium

laurel sulfate. SLS is much more refined, though,

than Turkey Red. Turkey Red has a VERY distinctive

oder.

>When used in leave-on products, ethoxylated oils

do not irritate the skin. Turkey Red is an extreme

skin irritant and shouldn't >be used in leave-ons.

>Hope this helps,

>Trina

[Guest guest]

Heidi and all,

Thanks for the description from Trina. Now I am wondering....since it is

made using the same reaction as sodium laurel sulfate, is it carcinogenic as

I have heard about sodium laurel sulfate?

sage