Hair tonics, alcoholic

Sometimes off-odor problems appear more serious to the chemist who has developed the product than they are to the consumer. This is especially likely to occur in traditional products where the consumer through habituation has come to accept, and perhaps to expect, the base odor as part of the natural odor of the product. Such an example occurred in Germany in the late 1950s. For tax reasons, hair tonics and other aqueous alcoholic products had been formulated with isopropyl alcohol rather than ethyl alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol has a characteristic, somewhat sickly sweet odor. When the tax laws changed and manufacturers were able to use ethyl alcohol again, many consumers actually missed the familiar isopropyl alcohol note, and perfumers were asked, in some instances, to find ways of putting this note back into the products. 

Use and exposure Propyl alcohol is a clear, colorless, volatile, flammable, fragrant liquid miscible with water and used as a solvent and antiseptic. It has two isomers n-propyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol. These alcohols have extensive use as chemical intermediates in a variety of industries— manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, cosmetics, skin lotions, hair tonics, mouthwashes, and liquid soaps. They are also used as lacquers, dental lotions, polishers, and surgical antiseptics. - ... 

Products and Uses Obtained from the fruit of American horsemint plant. In bakery products, beverages (alcoholic), chewing gum, confections, gelatin desserts, ice cream, and puddings. In perfumery for hair tonic, oils, and dressings. An ingredient that affects taste or smell of product. 

Synonyms Bitter ash Bitter wood Picrasma excelsa Quassia amara Definition Wood of Picrasma exceisa or Quassia amara, contg. bitter principle quassin Properties YIsh-wh. to bright yel. chips or fibrous coarse grains, si. odor, very bitter taste Uses Natural flavoring agent in foods and pharmaceuticals bitter tonic medicine (anthelmintic) extract as fly poison on flypaper surrogate for hops hair lotion alcohol denaturant... 

PEG-100 stearate emollient, hair rinses Behenalkonium chloride emollient, hair shampoo Polyquaternium-6 emollient, hair sprays Myristoyl hydrolyzed collagen emollient, hair tonics Diisopropyl adipate emollient, hair treatments Tridecyl trimellitate emollient, hand care Argan (Argania spinosa) kernel oil emollient, hand cleaners Decyl oleate PEG-75 meadowfoam seed oil emollient, hand lotions Cetearyl alcohol Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba) seed oil... 

Uses Emollient for cosmetics, topical pharmaceuticals coupling agent for aq. alcoholic systems, shave lotions, hair tonics spreading agent in bath oils, hair pomades solubilizer for fragrances plastidzer in hair sprays Features Reduces oiliness of min. oil prods. 

The well known toxic effects of alcohol appear to be ameliorated by the administration of vitamin C which plays a role in hepatic detoxification mechanisms by contributing to the oxidising cytochrome P450 system. Perhaps the gin and tonic imbibers should be advised to resume the now outmoded gin and orange in order that the latter may help to counter the after effects of the former The vitamin has also been used in treating lead poisoning but carefully controlled trials showed no effect of ascorbate in reducing heavy metals in hair. 

Uses Emulsifier, reforming agent, thickener for creams, milky lotions, hair conditioners, shampoos solubilizer for oily components and perfumes in alcoholic tonics... 

Uses 0/w emulsifier, solubilizer, emollient for cosmetics, hair/body shampoos, foam baths, fragrances, skin tonics, cleansing lotions, anliperspirants Features Good alcohol/aqueous alcohol solubility Properties Colorless to pale yel. cl. liq. water-sol. HLB 14.0 100% cone. 

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