Guest guest Posted May 14, 2002 Report Share Posted May 14, 2002 >Can someone tell me where I can find an account of all the different mineral >oil grades?ÿ For example, white oils, petrolatum, paraffinum liquidum? The CTFA defines Mineral Oil as " a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum " . Some other technical names are Deobase (RIFM) Heavy Mineral Oil Hydrocarbon Oils Light Mineral Oil Liquid Paraffin Liquid Petrolatum Paraffin Oil Paraffin oils (RIFM) Paraffinum Liquidum (EU) Prolatum Oil Other brand or trade names include Benol (Witco Performance Chemical) Blandol (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 6 (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 7 (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 9 (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 24 (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 35 (Witco Performance Chemical) Britol 50 (Witco Performance Chemical) Carnation (Witco Performance Chemical) Crystosol NF 70 (Witco Performance Chemical) Crystosol NF 90 (Witco Performance Chemical) Crystosol USP 200 (Witco Performance Chemical) Crystosol USP 240 (Witco Performance Chemical) Crystosol USP 350 (Witco Performance Chemical) Drakeol 5 (Penreco) Drakeol 6 (Penreco) Drakeol 7 (Penreco) Drakeol 8 (Penreco) Drakeol 9 (Penreco) Drakeol 10 (Penreco) Drakeol 13 (Penreco) Drakeol 15 (Penreco) Drakeol 19 (Penreco) Drakeol 21 (Penreco) Drakeol 32 (Penreco) Drakeol 34 (Penreco) Drakeol 35 (Penreco) Draketex 50 (Penreco) Ervol (Witco Performance Chemical) Gloria (Witco Performance Chemical) Hydrobrite 1000 USP White Mineral Oil (Witco) Jeen Mineral Oil NF (Jeen) Kaydol (Witco Performance Chemical) Klearol (Witco Performance Chemical) Marcol 52 (Esso) Marcol 72 (Esso) Marcol 82 (Esso) Marcol 122 (Esso) Marcol 172 (Esso) Marcol 187 (Esso) Marcol 207 (Esso) Marcol 262 (Esso) Marcol 352 (Esso) Marcol 542 (Esso) Merkur White Oil Pharma (Merker Vaseline) MERKUR White Oil Pharma; VARA 200; VARA 600 (Merkur) Parol 70 (Penreco) Parol 80 (Penreco) Parol 100 (Penreco) Peneteck (Penreco) Primol 382 (Esso) Protol (Witco Performance Chemical) Superla White Oil 5 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 7 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 9 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 10 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 13 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 18 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 21 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 31 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 35 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 38 (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 7A (Chevron Lubricants) Superla White Oil 9A (Chevron Lubricants) Uniwhite Oil 55 (Universal Preserv-A-Chem) Uniwhite Oil 70 (Universal Preserv-A-Chem) Uniwhite Oil 85 (Universal Preserv-A-Chem) Uniwhite Oil 350 (Universal Preserv-A-Chem) >I am also looking for any information on the sillicon oils; the difference >between dimethicone amd dimethiconol, cyclomethicone and cyclopentasiloxane, >and their stabilities.ÿ IMO, the Dow Corning website is the best for information on silicone. http://www.dowcorning.com/ Of course, there is information on silicone in the CosmeticInfo files area. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cosmeticinfo/files/Ingredients/Advances_in_the_Use\ _of_Silicones_in_Cosmetics.pdf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cosmeticinfo/files/Ingredients/cyclomethicone.pdf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cosmeticinfo/files/Ingredients/dimethicone.pdf Maurice ------------------------ Maurice O. Hevey Convergent Cosmetics, Inc. http://www.ConvergentCosmetics.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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