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CAS: 3234-85-3
Myristic Acid is a fatty acid that occurs naturally in some foods. Purified Myristic Acid occurs as a hard, white or faintly yellow, glossy crystalline solid, or as a white or yellow-white powder. Salts of Myristic Acid (Aluminum Dimyristate, Aluminum Isostearates/Myristate, Aluminum Myristate, Aluminum Myristates/Palmitates, Calcium Myristate, Magnesium Myristate, Potassium Myristate, Sodium Myristate, Zinc Myristate) and esters of Myristic Acid (Butyl Myristate, Cetyl Myristate, Decyl Myristate, Ethylhexyl Myristate, Ethyl Myristate, Glyceryl Dimyristate, Glyceryl Isostearate/Myristate, Glyceryl Myristate, Isobutyl Myristate, Isocetyl Myristate, Isodecyl Myristate, Isopropyl Myristate, Isostearyl Myristate, Isotridecyl Myristate, Lauryl Myristate, Methyl Myristate, Myristyl Myristate, Octyldodecyl Myristate, Oleyl Myristate, Propylene Glycol Myristate, Tetradecyloctadecyl Myristate, Tridecyl Myristate) may also be used in cosmetics and personal care products. Myristic Acid and its salts and esters may be used in eye makeup, soaps and detergents, hair care products, nail care products, shaving products and other skin care products.
Synonyms:
MYRISTYL MYRISTATE; Tetradecyl tetradecanoate; 3234-85-3; Tetradecyl myristate; Ceraphyl 424; Tetradecanoic acid, tetradecyl ester; Cyclochem MM; MYRISTIC ACID MYRISTYL ESTER ;Myristic acid, tetradecyl ester; tetradecanyl tetradecanoate; Crodamol MM; Liponate MM; Cetiol MM; UNII- 4042ZC00DY; Myristyl tetradecanoate; 4042ZC00DY; WE(14:0/14:0); EINECS 221-787-9; BRN 1801576; Schercemol MM; Alkamuls MM/M; Waxenol 810; 1-Tetradecanol, myristate; EC 221-787-9; SCHEMBL44370; myristyl myristate, AldrichCPR; DTXSID5047403; CHEBI:138721; tetradecanoic; acid tetradecyl ester; 14:0-14:0Alc; LMFA07010035; ZINC59796782; AKOS024437806; DB-048204; FT-0634737; 234M853; A821238; W-106845; Q27258281; UNII-D072FFP9GU component DZKXJUASMGQEMA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Why is it used in cosmetics and personal care products?
The following functions have been reported for Myristic Acid and its salts and esters.
• Anticaking agent - Aluminum Dimyristate, Aluminum Isostearates/Myristates, Aluminum Myristate, Aluminum Myristates/Palmitates, Calcium Myristate, Magnesium Myristate, Zinc Myristate
• Binder - Isopropyl Myristate, Isostearyl Myristate, Tetradecyloctyldecyl Myristate
• Emulsion stabilizer - Aluminum Dimyristate, Aluminum Isostearates/Myristates, Aluminum Myristate, Aluminum Myristates/Palmitates, Calcium Myristate, Tetradecyloctyldecyl Myristate
• Film former - Tetradecyloctyldecyl Myristate
• Hair conditioning agent - Ethyl Myristate, Isotridecyl Myristate, Lauryl Myristate, Oleyl Myristate
• Opacifying agent - Myristic Acid, Tetradecyloctyldecyl Myristate
• Slip modifier - Magnesium Myristate, Zinc Myristate
• Skin-Conditioning Agent - Emollient - Butyl Myristate, Ethylhexyl Myristate, Ethyl Myristate, Glyceryl Dimyristate, Glyceryl Isostearate/Myristate, Glyceryl Myristate, Isobutyl Myristate, Isodecyl Myristate, Isopropyl Myristate, Isostearyl Myristate, Methyl Myristate, Propylene Glycol Myristate
• Skin-conditioning agent - occlusive - Cetyl Myristate, Decyl Myristate, Isocetyl Myristate, Isotridecyl Myristate, Lauryl Myristate, Myristyl Myristate, Octyldodecyl Myristate, Oleyl Myristate, Tetradecyloctyldecyl Myristate, Tridecyl Myristate
• Surfactant - cleansing agent - Myristic Acid, Potassium Myristate, Sodium Myristate
• Surfactant - emulsifying agent - Potassium Myristate, Sodium Myristate, Glyceryl Isostearate/Myristate, Glyceryl Myristate, Propylene Glycol Myristate
• Viscosity increasing agent - nonaqueous - Aluminum Dimyristate, Aluminum Isostearates/Myristates, Aluminum Myristate, Aluminum Myristates/Palmitates, Calcium Myristate, Magnesium Myristate, Zinc Myristate
Myristic Acid, also called tetradecanoic acid, occurs naturally in vegetable or animal fats and oils with relatively high levels found in nutmeg, palm oil, coconut oil and butter fat. The salts of Myristic acid are formed by reaction with base materials such as sodium or potassium hydroxide. The esters of Myristic Acid are derived from Myristic Acid and an alcohol. For example, Isopropyl Myristate is derived from Myristic Acid and isopropyl alcohol, and Butyl Myristate is derived from Myristic Acid and butyl alcohol.
What Is Myristyl Myristate?
Myristyl myristate is used in a variety of cosmetics and skincare products to improve the texture of formulations and help to keep the skin moisturized and hydrated. Myristyl myristate is generally used as an emollient, texture enhancer, and co-emulsifier.
Myristyl myristate is a naturally derived fatty alcohol. While alcohols are often associated with drying formulations but fatty alcohols are different to other alcohols. Fatty alcohols are a combination of oils and fats with alcohol that actually have hydrating and emollient properties.
Myristyl myristate naturally occurs in several types of oils and fats. For instance, nutmeg butter is comprised of 75% trimyristin, the triglyceride of myristic acid. In addition to nutmeg, myristic acid is found in palm kernel oil, coconut oil, butterfat, 8 to 14% of bovine milk, and 8.6% of breast milk. Myristyl myristate exists as a white or yellowish waxy solid. Myristyl myristate is most often made from vegetable oils for cosmetic use.
Myristic acid is most commonly used in eye makeup, moisturizers, soaps and detergents, hair care products, nail care products, shaving products, and other skincare products. It is typically used at concentrations of 1 to 10%.
THE GOOD:Myristyl myristate is mainly used to help improve the texture of skincare and cosmetic products but also has the added benefit of helping to moisturize the skin.
THE NOT SO GOOD:It is not a particularly active ingredient, apart from adding moisture it does little else for the skin.
WHO IS IT FOR?All skin types except those that have an identified allergy to it.
SYNERGETIC INGREDIENTS:Works well with most ingredients
In cosmetics and skincare products, myristyl myristate functions as an emollient, texture enhancer, and moisturizer.
Moisture
Myristyl myristate is used as a moisturizer in formulations. As an emollient myristyl myristate works to soften and soothe the skin and hair. Emollients work but forming a protective barrier on the surface of the skin. This action helps to trap water in the top few layers of the skin, improving the skin barrier integrity. The skin barrier is the first few layers of the skin and the natural oils that the skin produces that protect the skin from bacteria, allergens, and prevents water loss to the environment. These same properties also help to keep the hair soft, hydrated, and manageable. Myristyl myristate is a soft wax that melts at body temperature, which helps to improve the moisture of the skin and reduce flakiness.
Texture
Myristyl myristate also functions to improve the texture of formulations. It helps to improve the spreadability of a product, making sure that the product evenly distributes the key ingredients. In certain soap formulations, an excess of myristyl myristate produces pearl effects giving the skin a glossy appearance. Myristyl myristate reduces the watery feel of hand and body lotions and imparts a richness in the sensory feel of the products. Interestingly, the addition of myristyl myristate to an emulsion can take it from dull gray to bright white, making the product look more appealing.
Stabilizer
Myristyl myristate is also used for its stabilizing benefits. When water and oil-based ingredients are mixed together it is hard to keep them mixed. Myristyl myristate is used to help keep an evenly mixed formulation that prevents separating. The combination of fatty alcohol and fatty acids in myristyl myristate thickens emulsions and improves stability making the emulsion much more stable to temperature variations and higher oil levels. Rather than increasing the amount of emulsifier, which would stiffen the product, a co-emulsifier like myristyl myristate can be used to improve the overall emulsion stability while delivering additional benefits not offered through increased emulsifiers.
It's a waxy emollient with a melting point near to skin temperature. It gives body and consistency to the formula and leaves a velvety feel on the skin.
MYRISTYL MYRISTATE is classified as :
• Emollient
• Opacifying
• Skin conditioning
Consumer Uses
Cleaning and furnishing care products
Laundry and dishwashing products
Personal care products
Myristyl Myristate is a 100% natural vegetable derived ester utilizing only the Myristic fatty acids. This combination of myristyl alcohol and myristic acid results in superior whitening to the product and improved benefits to the skin.
Myristyl Myristate is used as a co-emulsifier for it's emulsion stabilizing benefits. The combination of fatty alcohol and fatty acids thickens emulsions and improves stability making the emulsion much more stable to temperature variations and higher oil and butter levels. The perfect choice when you've created your emulsion and it's just on the verge of de-stabilizing. This will be apparent through an appearance of oil or air in your product. Rather than increasing your emulsifier which would also stiffen your product, in most cases, a co-emulsifier is used to improve the overall emulsion stability while delivering additional benefits not offered through increased emulsifiers.
Myristyl Myristate is also used to improve the aesthetics of emulsions. This is a good choice when your emulsion has an unpleasant color or dullness. Just the addition of Myristyl Myristate can take your emulsion from grey to bright white while giving it a smooth glossy appearance.
Myristyl Myristate is most commonly used to improve the performance of emulsions. Being base on fatty acids it delivers skin conditioning benefits and improved moisture retention. Myristyl Myristate will also impart a very pleasant soft powdery feel on the skin. This is a great addition to your formulas when your final product does not deliver a nice feel on the skin or leaves the skin feeling too greasy. By adding Myristyl Myristate you can keep your oil and butter levels higher and still avoid the unpleasant greasiness.
Myristyl Myristate offers an easy way to create lotions and creams with a silky, rich feel and a dry powdery feel. Especially suitable for those products with a high butter content when the oily effect is undesirable. Functioning as both a co-emulsifier and an opacifier it's an easy way to improve the visual appeal of your product while at the same time improving on the feel of the product on the skin.
ATTRIBUTES
• Provides a pleasantly soft & substantive feel to emulsions
• Offers an excellent dry powdery feel on the skin
• Contributes excellent emulsion enhancement, imparting body and a white opacifying effect
• Offers a solution to natural color where it gives your emulsions white glossy appearance
• Excellent super fatting / thickening agent
GUIDELINES
• 2.0 - 8.0%
• Add to the oil phase
APPLICATIONS
• Creams and Lotions
• Massage and Body Oils
• Hair Conditioners
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Myristyl Myristate is a naturally derived ester, formed by the combination of Myristyl Alcohol and Myristic Acid, which occurs naturally in animal or vegetable fats or oils. It is originally formed as a white or yellowish waxy solid, and is used as a skin conditioning agent, emulsifier and opacifier in skin care products and cosmetics.
Functions:
Myristyl Myristate is a naturally derived ester, formed by the combination of Myristyl Alcohol and Myristic Acid, which occurs naturally in animal or vegetable fats or oils. It is originally formed as a white or yellowish waxy solid, and is used as a skin conditioning agent, emulsifier and opacifier in skin care products and cosmetics, according to CosmeticsInfo.org.
It provides a pleasant, soft feel to formulas, as well as an excellent dry, powdery after-feel to lotions and creams, according to research. Myristyl Myristate is an excellent emulsion enhancer that imparts a white opacifying effect or glossy appearance, and is an effective thickening agent as well.
Consumer Uses
This substance is used in the following products: washing & cleaning products, plant protection products, lubricants and greases, adhesives and sealants, polishes and waxes, fertilisers and coating products. Other release to the environment of this substance is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners), outdoor use, indoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. cooling liquids in refrigerators, oil-based electric heaters) and outdoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. hydraulic liquids in automotive suspension, lubricants in motor oil and break fluids).
Article service life
Other release to the environment of this substance is likely to occur from: outdoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. metal, wooden and plastic construction and building materials), indoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. flooring, furniture, toys, construction materials, curtains, foot-wear, leather products, paper and cardboard products, electronic equipment), indoor use in long-life materials with high release rate (e.g. release from fabrics, textiles during washing, removal of indoor paints) and outdoor use in long-life materials with high release rate (e.g. tyres, treated wooden products, treated textile and fabric, brake pads in trucks or cars, sanding of buildings (bridges, facades) or vehicles (ships)).
This substance can be found in complex articles, with no release intended: vehicles.
This substance can be found in products with material based on: plastic (e.g. food packaging and storage, toys, mobile phones).
This substance is intended to be released from scented: clothes.
Widespread uses by professional workers
This substance is used in the following products: washing & cleaning products, polishes and waxes and plant protection products.
This substance is used in the following areas: formulation of mixtures and/or re-packaging.
Other release to the environment of this substance is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners) and outdoor use.
Formulation or re-packing
This substance is used in the following products: polymers, lubricants and greases, textile treatment products and dyes and cosmetics and personal care products.
Release to the environment of this substance can occur from industrial use: formulation of mixtures and formulation in materials.
Uses at industrial sites
This substance is used in the following products: washing & cleaning products, metal surface treatment products, polymers, textile treatment products and dyes, pH regulators and water treatment products and leather treatment products.
This substance is used for the manufacture of: pulp, paper and paper products.
Release to the environment of this substance can occur from industrial use: in processing aids at industrial sites, in the production of articles, as an intermediate step in further manufacturing of another substance (use of intermediates) and as processing aid.
Manufacture
Release to the environment of this substance can occur from industrial use: manufacturing of the substance.
myristyl myristate a high quality ester specifically developed for personal care and pharmaceutical applications. It is a white to pale yellow solid with a cloud point/melting point of approximately 41ºC. myristyl myristate emollient esters are based on a wide selection of natural fatty acids, offering many functional benefits.
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Uses
myristyl myristate is an occlusive skin-conditioning agent that enhances product spreadability and can reduce a product’s transparency. It is particularly useful in emulsions that have to “melt” once they come in contact with the skin. This is an ester formed by the combination of the myristyl alcohol and myristic acid fractions of coconut oil.
Myristate is an ester of isopropyl alcohol (aka rubbing alcohol) and myristic acid (a fatty acid that naturally occurs in coconut and palm oils). It is a very lightweight emollient and can be used like a carrier oil in many applications.
Myristate is included in formulas to dramatically reduce the greasy/oily feel; it’s brilliant in recipes with large amounts of butters that are famous for a heavier skin feel (like shea).
Isopropyl Myristate is also a great lightweight emollient; you can include it in recipes as an alternative to a liquid carrier oil to make for a lighter, faster-absorbing product.
At higher concentrations it can also be used in products like makeup removers.
IUPAC
Myristyl Myristate
Myristyl myristate
Myristyll myristate
Tetradecyl myristate
tetradecyl myristate
tetradecyl myristate
tetradecyl tetradecanoate
TRADE
Crodamol MM
DUB MM
RADIA 7744
Super Refined Crodamol MM
