Isopropyl Myristate (isopropyl + myristate)

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Study of sensory properties of emollients used in cosmetics and their correlation with physicochemical properties

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COSMETIC SCIENCE, Issue 6 2005
M. E. Parente
Eight liquid emollients (mineral oil, sunflower oil, squalane, decyl-oleate, isopropyl-myristate, octyldodecanol, dimethicone, and cyclomethicone) were characterized by instrumental and sensory methods and evaluated to determine the relationship between sensory and instrumental measures. Sensory analysis was carried out by a panel of 14 assessors, who evaluated the following attributes: difficulty of spreading, gloss, residue, stickiness, slipperiness, softness, and oiliness. The physicochemical properties measured were spreadability (at 1½ and 1 min), viscosity, and superficial tension. Data collected were statistically analysed by analysis of variance (ANOVA), principal component analysis (PCA), and linear partial least squares regression analysis (PLS). In consideration of their physicochemical characteristics, the studied emollients were sorted into three groups, in which the silicones distinctly separate from the rest. Sensory characteristics enabled the discrimination of four groups of emollients where, besides the two silicones, isopropyl myristate was also differentiated. PLS revealed that emollient sensory attributes could be well predicted by instrumental measurements. [source]


IPM/DOSS/water microemulsions as reactors for silver sulfadiazine nanocrystal synthesis

JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, Issue 6 2005
Jerry Nesamony
Abstract The first goal of this work was the preparation of a water-in-oil microemulsion from components generally regarded as safe for use in humans. Stable formulations without need of a co-surfactant were prepared from isopropyl myristate (IPM), dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS), and water. A ternary phase diagram was prepared for the IPM/DOSS/water system. The IPM/DOSS/water microemulsions were characterized by conductivity and dynamic laser light scattering (DLS). The results obtained from conductivity experiments indicate conductivity values of less than 1 ,S/cm and were consistent with the formation of w/o microemulsions. The DLS results showed that the emulsified water droplets had an average diameter range of 9.2 to 19.7 nm, depending on composition. Modulation of the droplet size is possible by varying the water to DOSS molar ratio and DOSS to IPM ratio. The second goal of this work was the preparation of silver sulfadiazine (AgSD) nanoparticles. It was hypothesized that two separate microemulsions containing dispersed aqueous droplets of either sodium sulfadiazine or silver nitrate would react when mixed. The DLS results are consistent with the successful formation of submicron AgSD crystals. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association J Pharm Sci 94:1310,1320, 2005 [source]


Enhancement of nortriptyline penetration through human epidermis: influence of chemical enhancers and iontophoresis

JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY: AN INTERNATI ONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE, Issue 4 2008
Virginia Merino
Different known percutaneous chemical enhancers and iontophoresis have been tested in-vitro to study their ability to increase transdermal absorption of nortriptyline hydrochloride (20 mg mL,1). The chemicals 1-dodecanol, Span 20, Azone, (R)-(+)-limonene or isopropyl myristate were used as an overnight pretreatment at 5% (w/w) in ethanol. Furthermore, isopropyl myristate (20%, w/w) and propylene glycol (15%, w/w) were tested in the same vehicle. Iontophoresis was applied directly to the nortriptyline hydrochloride donor solution for three different concentrations (20, 2 and 0.5 mgmL,1). The chemical enhancers slightly increased the nortriptyline transdermal flux but iontophoresis was more efficient. In this case, nortriptyline transdermal flux was concentration dependent, having a higher flux when the concentration was lowered. Therefore, iontophoresis was the most suitable technique to increase transdermal absorption of nortriptyline and it could be an alternative method to provide therapeutic concentrations of this drug in smoking cessation treatment. [source]


Designing for topical delivery: Prodrugs can make the difference

MEDICINAL RESEARCH REVIEWS, Issue 6 2003
Kenneth B. Sloan
Abstract It has been shown for homologous series of prodrugs that those members who were the more water soluble ones gave the greatest enhancement in topical delivery of the parent drug and not the more lipophilic ones. However, until recently models for topical delivery and equations to predict topical delivery focused only on lipid solubility (SLIPID) or partition coefficient (KOCT:AQ) and molecular volume (or molecular weight, MW) as parameters. Now several equations (transformed Potts,Guy or Series/Parallel) have been developed which include aqueous solubility (SAQ) as a parameter for predicting flux through skin. Experimental fluxes, solubilities, and MW from seven series of prodrugs have been fit to the transformed Potts,Guy equation to give coefficients for log solubility in isopropyl myristate (log SIPM) and log solubility in water (log SAQ) (0.53 and 0.47, respectively) which show, for parent drugs delivered by prodrugs from IPM in vitro through hairless mouse skin, that water solubility is almost as important as lipid solubility. When the transformed Potts,Guy equation was fit to data for the delivery of NSAID from mineral oil (MO) in vivo through human skin, the coefficients were 0.72 log SMO and 0.28 log SAQ. When the transformed Potts,Guy equation was fit to data for the delivery of their parent drugs by three series of prodrugs from water in vitro through hairless mouse skin the coefficients were 0.66 log SIPM and 0.34 log SAQ. Numerous recent examples are also given where more water-soluble members of homologous series of prodrugs give higher flux values from water vehicles in vitro through human skin than the more lipid soluble ones. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Med Res Rev, 23 No. 6, 763,793, 2003 [source]