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Great question! These ingredients are used to thicken water. Why would we add it to the heated oil phase of an emulsion? We add something like Sepimax ZEN, Sepinov EMT 10, Xanthan Gum, SOLAGUM™ AX, and so on to the heated oil phase so it won’t start to hydrate while it’s in the water phase,…