Coconut Oil Based Low Temperature Liquid Hair Oil Formulations with Ester Modification

Abstract

We have reported in this research work for coconut oil based low temperature hair oil formulations using coconut oil’sglycerolysis, glycolysis &trans esterification reactions with Glycerol, Glycol, Ethanol & Butanol and methanol and interesterified the coconut oil &its Ethyl alcohol esters also. The Glycerol & Poly Ethylene Glycol (Molecular Weight 180-210) was used to esterify the Coconut Oil in this work using chemical & enzyme catalyst. The ethyl esters & butyl esters gave 0 & -5°C solidification points respectively using versa transform 2.0 enzyme of Novozymesmake at 0.4% doses per Novozymes protocol. In the Inter-esterification experiments between coconut oil and ethyl esters of coconut oil, the same enzyme was used. The glycerol & coconut oil produced hair oil enzymatically produced have6° solidification point (S.P.) (table 2). Glycol monoesters of 60C solidification point (S.P.) was obtained by chemical interesterification using 0.25% Noah at 130-140 °C in 2-3 hours (730 mm vacuum)& its product was enzymatically interesterified withethyl esters of 3°C S.P. to prepare modified esters of 4 °C S.P..Ethyl esters of 3°C yielded on interesterification with enzymatically produced glycerol esters of 6°C S.P. a 3.5°C S.P. product. Butanol & methanol esters prepared enzymatically were of low S.P.Bychemical method for glycerol esters S.P. was high.