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MYRISTYL MYRISTATE

CAS NO: 3234-85-3

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.

Synonmys; MYRISTYL MYRISTATE; Tetradecyl Tetradecanoate; Tetradecyl Myristate; Ceraphyl 424; Tetradecanoic Acid; Tetradecyl Ester; Cyclochem MM; MYRISTIC ACID; MYRISTYL ESTER; [(4R,4aR,7S,7aR,12bS)-3-methyl-9-phenylmethoxy-2,4,4a,7,7a,13-hexahydro-1H-4,12-methanobenzofuro[3,2-e]isoquinolin-7-yl] tetradecanoate; Myristic Acid Myristyl Ester; MYRISTYL MYRISTATE; Tetradecanoic acid, tetradecyl ester; Tetradecyl myristate; tetradecyl tetradecanoate; Tetradecylmyristat; Ceraphyl 424; Cetiol MM; Crodamol MM; Cyclochem MM; Liponate MM; CETYL ESTERS WAX; Alkamuls MM/M; myristic acid; tetradecyl ester; Myristic acid, tetradecyl ester; MYRISTYL MYRISTATE|TETRADECYL TETRADECANOATE; Myristyl stearate; Myristyl tetradecanoate; MyristylMyristate; octadecanoic acid tetradecyl ester; Liponate MM; Myristyl tetradecanoate;

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.

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

What Is Myristyl Myristate?

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.

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. 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%.
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. It is not a particularly active ingredient, apart from adding moisture it does little else for the skin. All skin types except those that have an identified allergy to it. Works well with most ingredients. Nothing to keep an eye on here, myristyl myristate is safe and doesn’t cause irritation. In cosmetics and skincare products, myristyl myristate functions as an emollient, texture enhancer, and moisturizer.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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 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

Safety Measures/Side Effects:

Myristyl Myristate is considered safe and is approved by the CIR for use in cosmetics. The EWG reports a 95% safety rating for it, although some studies have linked it to mild irritation when applied to skin directly. Tetradecyl tetradecanoate is a tetradecanoate ester (myristate ester) resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of tetradecanoic acid (myristic acid) with the hydroxy group of tetradecan-1-ol (myristyl alcohol). Used as an emollient. It has a role as an algal metabolite. It is a wax ester and a tetradecanoate ester. It derives from a tetradecan-1-ol.
Non-greasy solid emollient is the ester of myristyl alcohol & myristic acid. Enhances esthetic properties of skin care products, gives more body & spreadability. White pastille/flakes. Fatty odor. Melting point ~38°C/100°F.
Myristyl Myristate is a wax of high purity based on vegetable raw materials. It gives O / W emulsions, especially lotions, a wonderful consistency and a pleasant soft, powdery skin feel. MM is excellent for lipsticks, night- and eye creams. It is stable to oxidation, shows a good spreading behavior and ensures a better application and good pulling capacity in emulsions.
Myristyl Myristate is melted in the fat phase. Myristyl Myristate is a White to light Yellowish pelletized wax mass of Vegetable origin with a fatty feel and distinctive odour. Popular as a co-emulsifier to enrich the feel and appearance of your Cream or Lotion Base and create a brilliant White appearance in your finished product

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

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

ATTRIBUTES

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. 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. 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. Description: Non-greasy solid emollient is the ester of myristyl alcohol & myristic acid. Enhances esthetic properties of skin care products, gives more body & spreadability. White pastille/flakes. Fatty odor. Melting point ~38°C/100°F.
Description: 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 ypur finished product and with greatly improved benefits to the skin.

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.

APPLICATIONS

Increases the body of creams and lotions. Imparts a soft, slightly waxy after feel.
Acts as superfatting agent for soaps and lubricant for shaving creams.
Can be used as co-conditioner for hair care products and as emollient for skin care and makeup products.
Suitable for use across a wide pH range. Compatible with anionic, nonionic and cationic surfactants.
Add to oil phase of formulas, usual final concentration 1-10%. For external use only. Soaps, creams, makeup, lotions, hair conditioners, shaving products. Creams and Lotions.
Massage and Body Oils. Hair Conditioners

SPECIFICATIONS.

Myristyl Myristate is used as a co-emulsifier to stabilise emulsions. If your emulsion has an oily odour and slightly grey, adding Myristyl Myristate gives the product a lighter and bright White glossy appearance. This ingredient is ideal if you want to create a luscious silky feel in your lotions and creams.

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

Appearance:   White Flake
Odor:   Characteristic
Solubility:   Oil
Storage:   Cool, Tightly Sealed, Protected from Moisture
Shelf:   24 Months Properly Stored / Handled