Pure Kojic Acid
- Chemical Name: Kojic acid
- CAS No.:501-30-4
- MF: C6H6O4
- MW: 142.11
- Specification: USP|EP|BP
- Purity:>99% or As customer requested
- Color: White to beige-brownSolubility:SOLUBLE
- Product Categories: Pyridines; Cosmetics; Herb extract; inhibitor; FINE Chemical & INTERMEDIATES\
- Test method: HPLC
Description
What is Pure Kojic Acid?
Pure kojic acid is made from several different types of fungi. It’s also a byproduct when certain foods ferment, including Japanese sake, soy sauce, and rice wine.
Kojic acid pure inhibits and prevents the formation of tyrosine, which is an amino acid that’s needed to produce melanin. Melanin is the pigment that affects hair, skin, and eye color. Because 100 pure kojic acid powder
inhibits the production of melanin, kojic acid can have a lightening effect.
Product Name: | Kojic acid |
Synonyms: | 4H-Pyran-4-one, 5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-; 4H-Pyran-4-one,5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-; 5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4h-pyran-4-on; kojic; Pyran-4-one, 5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl); 2-HYDROXYMETHYL-5-HYDROXY-4-PYRONE; 5-Hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-γ-pyrone; Kojic acid |
CAS: | 501-30-4 |
MF: | C6H6O4 |
MW: | 142.11 |
EINECS: | 207-922-4 |
Product Categories: | Pyridines; Cosmetics; Herb extract; inhibitor; FINE Chemical & INTERMEDIATES; Heterocycles |
Melting point | 152-155 °C (lit.) |
Boiling point | 179.65°C (rough estimate) |
density | 1.1712 (rough estimate) |
refractive index | 1.4434 (estimate) |
storage temp. | Store below +30°C. |
pka | 7.9(at 25℃) |
form | Crystalline Powder |
color | White to beige-brown |
Water Solubility | SOLUBLE |
λmax | 269nm(CHCl3)(lit.) |
Merck | 14,5317 |
BRN | 120895 |
Stability: | Stable. Combustible. Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents. |
Physicochemical properties | Kojic acid crystal is prism shape, acicular, colorless. Kojic acid is soluble in water, alcohol, acetone, slightly soluble in ether, ethyl acetate, chloroform and pyridine, insoluble in most other solvent. |
Notwithstanding its “pure kojic acid” moniker, pure kojic acid is protected to utilize — however we wouldn’t prescribe any of the items intended to totally ease up your coloring as your general complexion ought not be altered; it will ultimately move back to its regular state once you end use. Additionally, doing as such with overabundance measures of the fixing can cause some serious bothering. All things considered, you ought to utilize 100 pure kojic acid powder injected items to blur staining that wasn’t initially on your skin, similar to progress in years spots, sun spots, or those disagreeable post-breakout marks.
“100 pure kojic acid powder has gentle cell reinforcement, antimicrobial, and peeling properties,” Dr. MacGregor tells InStyle. “It’s protected and very much endured on the face and body even by the most delicate skin types, so is an incredible choice to utilize (or can’t endure) fixings like hydroquinone or retinoids.” She adds that a serum or cushion injected with kojic acid pure can be utilized once to two times per day, contingent upon the convergence of kojic acid pure and the item’s different fixings.
Obviously, likewise with any item, there is generally hazard of individual bothering or unfavorably susceptible response. Dr. MacGregor focuses on the significance of utilizing a mineral sunscreen alongside any pure kojic acid item in light of the fact that, truly, what benefit is a lighting up cream on the off chance that you simply switch the treatment and permit sun spots to shape? Furthermore, kojic acid pure is a gentle exfoliant, meaning your skin can turn out to be more delicate to the sun in the wake of utilizing it.
Technical Support & Resources
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