Silka Face Micellar Water 100ml

        This product is also considered as a cleansing toner because it was designed to cleanse the skin and helps to shrink the appearance of pores through the functions of its ingredients. It also helps to moisturize, protect and refresh the skin.

Micellar Solution/ Micellar Technology

 

     Micellar technology uses surfactants (cleansing agents) that have both water-loving and oil-loving properties called micelles. These two parts help the molecules in the solution to attach to oil and dirt particles in the skin, which makes it easier to be removed. In short, the micelles are helping to get the skin as clean as possible without being too aggressive on the skin. Think of them as a magnet: they help draw out impurities like dirt, oil, and environmental pollutants without being too harsh on the skin.

   

     Micelles are lipid molecules that arrange themselves in a spherical form in aqueous solutions. The formation of a micelle is a response to the amphipathic nature of fatty acids, meaning that they contain both hydrophilic regions (polar head groups) as well as hydrophobic regions (the long hydrophobic chain). Micelles contain polar head groups that usually form the outside as the surface of micelles. They face to the water because they are polar. The hydrophobic tails are inside and away from the water since they are nonpolar. Fatty acids from micelles usually have a single hydrocarbon chain as opposed to two hydrocarbon tails.

      

      Micelles form spontaneously in water, as stated above this spontaneous arrangement is due to the amphipathic nature of the molecule. The driving force for this arrangement is the hydrophobic interactions the molecules experience.

     

      But for micelles to form the surfactant must be present above its critical micelle concentration (CMC). This is defined as the concentration above which micelles are spontaneously formed. The CMC (critical micelle concentration) is the concentration of a surfactant in a bulk phase, above which aggregates of surfactant molecules, so-called micelles, start to form. The CMC is an important characteristic for surfactants.

        The supplier of our surfactant (Seppic) provides the CMC of the surfactants that it recommends for micellar water: thus, the CMC for PEG-20 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium Coceth Sulphate mixture is 2.1g/L or 0.21% w/v. Since in the formulation of the product, this mixture of surfactant is dosed as 1.25 – 1.75% w/w and the specific gravity of the final product is 1.01 – 1.02; the surfactant of the system is more than enough for the spontaneous formation of micelles.

Product Size/s:

• 100 mL bottle