Question: How to EMULSIFY a non-polar solution

[Fortes]

Translated from Chemo-babble to English, here's my question:

If I had, say, a mixture of 55 ml Isopropyl Alcohol, 25 ml. IPM and 20 ml. water, how would I go about making this into a GEL?

I'm looking for an emulsifying agent. Something I can just add that won't inhibit absorbtion too much that would make my Androsol mixture into jelly that I could take a bath in. And I mean that literally, hehehe.

Thanks for all the input . . .

 

[Bill Llewellyn]

Translated from Chemo-babble to English, here's my question:

If I had, say, a mixture of 55 ml Isopropyl Alcohol, 25 ml. IPM and 20 ml. water, how would I go about making this into a GEL?

I'm looking for an emulsifying agent. Something I can just add that won't inhibit absorbtion too much that would make my Androsol mixture into jelly that I could take a bath in. And I mean that literally, hehehe.

Thanks for all the input . . .

I'm not a chemist, but probably a carbomer would help.

I don't want to know why you would like to bathe in it. Just tell me your not the same guy selling homemade Androsol. If so, count me out.

- Bill

 

[Fortes]

Thanks bill . . . and I AM THE HOMEMADE ANDROSOL GUY

Hehehehe, what, you don't like finding surprises in your androsol?

I'm just kidding.

Carbomer . . . my guess is something similar to Carbamide, or synthetic urea? I wonder what the structure is, probably a carbon molecule with some nitrogenous attachments . . .

I'll look it up.

Hmmm, maybe I'll put some URINE in the androsol and THEN SELL IT! Andropiss! HAHAHAHAHAH! I'm completely joking, I probably alienated a bunch of potential buyers . . .

If there were any in the first place.

You see, the trick is to insult myself to the point where no one esle feels the need to add any insults to the post. By just saying that, I must conjecture, I set myself up quite terribly. Ahh well, not like I have any Karma to lose. Ohhh, just set myself up AGAIN!

And now I'm going to click post . . . wow, I'm in a self-destructive mood today.

Now I could delete everything I've just written, but . . . too late.

*click-click* :retarded: (or does that smiley even exist?)

 

[Par Deus]

As Bill said, carbomer.

Xanthan gum would probably work as well, and might be easier to get, as it is a food additive.