Ingredient Substitution Analysis
BeAuTY: A Chemical Analysis
Ingredient Substitution Analysis
Instructions: You will research and select a substitution for the hazardous ingredient that you selected to study in depth. Your goal is to find a safer, more environmentally and health friendly alternative to your hazardous ingredient. You will create a Document with the same title as this document and respond to the same questions for your ingredient substitution that you did for your hazardous ingredient.
1. What is your hazardous ingredient?
Dimethicone
2. What is your ingredient substitution?
cocoa butter
3. How is your ingredient classified in your product? (coloring agent, base, bulking agent, sunscreen or additive)
Bulking agent
4. Draw the general chemical structure for your ingredient substitution.
5. What is this ingredient used for in your product? Please be specific.
It is used to smooth the skin and improve the feeling of skin.
6. Briefly list and explain the positive aspects of this ingredient substitution.
Not a synthetic emollient; all natural; good for the skin; moisturizing
7. Briefly list and explain the negative aspects of this ingredient substitution.
Not as effective; More expensive
8. Is your ingredient substitution restricted or prohibited by the FDA? Why or why not?
Cocoa butter has been reviewed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe to use in this product.
9. What is the allowable concentration of your substituted ingredient in your product in order to be considered "safe"?
10. What is your opinion of this substituted ingredient based on what you have researched?
It is more expensive and not as effective for it’s purpose however, the pros seem to outweigh the cons of substituting dimethicone with cocoa butter for health benefit reasons.
Ingredient Substitution Analysis
Instructions: You will research and select a substitution for the hazardous ingredient that you selected to study in depth. Your goal is to find a safer, more environmentally and health friendly alternative to your hazardous ingredient. You will create a Document with the same title as this document and respond to the same questions for your ingredient substitution that you did for your hazardous ingredient.
1. What is your hazardous ingredient?
Dimethicone
2. What is your ingredient substitution?
cocoa butter
3. How is your ingredient classified in your product? (coloring agent, base, bulking agent, sunscreen or additive)
Bulking agent
4. Draw the general chemical structure for your ingredient substitution.
5. What is this ingredient used for in your product? Please be specific.
It is used to smooth the skin and improve the feeling of skin.
6. Briefly list and explain the positive aspects of this ingredient substitution.
Not a synthetic emollient; all natural; good for the skin; moisturizing
7. Briefly list and explain the negative aspects of this ingredient substitution.
Not as effective; More expensive
8. Is your ingredient substitution restricted or prohibited by the FDA? Why or why not?
Cocoa butter has been reviewed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe to use in this product.
9. What is the allowable concentration of your substituted ingredient in your product in order to be considered "safe"?
10. What is your opinion of this substituted ingredient based on what you have researched?
It is more expensive and not as effective for it’s purpose however, the pros seem to outweigh the cons of substituting dimethicone with cocoa butter for health benefit reasons.