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Is there a way to potentially utilize it in tiny tiny micro grams increments? Or would it not stabilize well in products?
Metal sodium is too reactive to be used in cosmetics. What kind of effect are you trying to achieve?
It explodes when exposed to moisture. It’s usually stored in sealed vials of oil. Same with metallic potassium.
Exactly! I had an idea specifically using that mechanism, but on a much smaller scale in copulsed dye lasermetics, I know it sounds absolutely nuts, but bare with me because it seems every other crazy idea I’ve had turns out to have either been a thing already been done, or something that’s being worked on in Pubmed.
So theoretically, it could be used in cosmetics, it just hasn’t been considered. But in just the right milligram, could it be stabilized in any oil based solid solution?
I have this idea for antiperspirant, that instead of repelling the moisture, you obliterate it in micro-explosions, keeping you dry, and fresh, w/o causing flesh damage. I don’t know why I want to know if this can work, it just kind of sounds really cool. . ( I also considered potassium, but I wanted to start w/sodium just cause.) I would have started with all of this, but I was afraid you all would have thought I’ve lost my mind.
I might be way off base here, but alternative ideas to what we already have in place always have intrigued me, so I like to think way outside the box sometimes. So one day when I thought of antiperspirant, and realized it’s all the same actives, and it’s the same technique, I figured maybe there was room to explore other options under the title of antiperspirant, and that’s where I got on the idea of vaporization instead of a repellant.
(Thanks for being gentle.) Aww, well. I’m feigning interest in the whole idea now, anyhow. Maybe someday a cosmetic scientist can figure it out in something a bit less Micheal Bay.
@ Kirsten- Very funny. I get I was wrong, and it wouldn’t be feasible with sodium, but your comment with the Poprocks is very dismissive to my actual concept as a whole. I normally don’t mind a joke, however creative thought and engineering is something that should be encouraged and assisted. Not mocked. The mentality and closed mindedness only leads to more engineering stagnation.
+ Plus didn’t your mother ever tell you, “if you do not have something nice to say?…”
@ Randy- *shakes head w/disappointment.*
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