by Cusser » April 14th, 2008, 1:17 pm
I'll have to check to see if wife has any Lexol (she has horses) for me to assay, haven't looked at it in the lab, and its MSDS doesn't say anything. I used the Rawlings Glove Dope exclusively on my new TG12 since 1960 (but I was dumb 7-year-old and never realized that one should also oil inside where the hand goes, and no one wore protective thin gloves on their hands then (I actually use Palmgard, my daughter and the adults throw too hard, and the Rawkings HOH gloves never had that much padding - but they will hold up for decades).
I use GC-Mass spec as first overall scouting assay on these, and I've published several papers on soap analyses, so that makes me quite experienced apparently. For the modern water-based liquid soap type conditioners, we can readily see glycerine, triethanolamine, and the soap fatty acids. In general if the product looks whitish when shaken and is not flammable (label), and label says to shake, then it is an emulsion and all ingredients are not solubilized in the formula, some just suspended. You can also have transparent water-based formulas, where all is soluble. And you can have clear hydrocarbon-based formulas which are clear as well.