Mineral Oil
Allzone Trading supplies mineral oil to manufacturers, formulators and industrial buyers in Toronto, the GTA, Ontario, Quebec and across Canada. Mineral oil is an occlusive emollient used in creams, lotions, baby care and body oils. Grade, physical form and documentation are confirmed against supplier technical data sheets at quotation.
At a glance
- Product
- Mineral Oil
- Grades
- Grade confirmed at quotation
- Typical applications
- Skin moisturising and hydration systems · Emollient and skin-feel modification · Lotion, cream and serum formulation
- Packaging
- Packaging confirmed at quotation against the supplier specification
- • Certificate of Analysis is provided against the confirmed shipment, grade and batch.
- • Manufacturer TDS and SDS are subject to grade and supplier confirmation and are available on request.
- • Grades, packaging and origin above are indicative sourcing options and are confirmed at quotation.
Available grades from container-direct sourcing
Grade confirmed at quotation
Grade, physical form and specification are quoted and confirmed against the supplier technical data sheet before any order is placed.
Typical applications
- Skin moisturising and hydration systems
- Emollient and skin-feel modification
- Lotion, cream and serum formulation
- Lip and body care products
- Wet wipe and toiletry formulation
Why Canadian buyers choose us
- Cosmetic, home care and industrial grades handled as separate specifications
- Grade, physical form and documentation confirmed in writing before order confirmation
- Supplier technical data sheet and safety data sheet provided for the quoted grade
- Freight arranged across Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada
- Quantities reviewed per enquiry, from sample lots to container loads
Typical industries served
Material identity
Mineral Oil (cosmetic) — identifiers and the names buyers use
- INCI
- Mineral Oil / Paraffinum Liquidum
- Chemical family
- Refined saturated hydrocarbon oil
- Viscosity grade
- UNKNOWN — white oils are sold across many viscosity grades; supplier-declared
- Refining and monograph status
- UNKNOWN — the buyer confirms the refining standard against supplier documentation
Also searched as
Industry terminology
Identifiers are published for material identification. The exact specification of any offered grade is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Buyer intent coverage
Mineral Oil (cosmetic) — what it is, where it is used, how it is chosen
Cosmetic mineral oil — usually described in trade as white oil — is an occlusive emollient used in baby oils, ointments, cleansing oils and make-up removers. It is specified primarily by viscosity grade, because that number determines whether the finished product feels light or heavy. Buyers should be explicit about viscosity and about which pharmacopoeial vocabulary their customer requires.
Primary uses
- Occlusion and transepidermal water-loss reduction
- Emolliency and slip
- Cleansing-oil and make-up-removal solvency
- Lubrication in industrial and technical uses
Applications
- Baby oils and body oils
- Creams and ointments
- Make-up removers and cleansing oils
- Hair oils and styling products
Advantages
- Highly stable and inert, with essentially no oxidation or rancidity concerns
- Excellent occlusive performance at low cost, which keeps it in barrier and baby formats
- Available across a range of viscosity grades that map directly onto sensory feel
Limitations to consider
- Excluded by several natural-positioning brand platforms, which drives replacement enquiries
- Heavier grades leave a greasy finish that is unacceptable in some formats
- Viscosity grade, not the name, determines behaviour — quoting without it wastes a round of enquiry
- Use level is established in your own formulation by bench trial and stability testing. Supplier literature ranges are a starting point for that work, not a specification, and they are not reproduced here as one.
- Colour, odour and sensory behaviour vary between manufacturing sources even where the INCI name is identical, and in personal care those differences are visible to the end consumer. Approve a production-representative sample against your own finished format before the first commercial shipment.
How to choose the right grade
- Start from the finished sensory target — a humectant, an emollient and a film former solve different problems and are often confused at the enquiry stage
- Confirm whether the material is a functional ingredient or a solvent/carrier in your formulation, because that changes the volume and the specification
- Check compatibility with the preservative system and the actives already fixed in the formula
- Confirm the phase and temperature at which it is added on your process
- For leave-on formats, plan a sensory panel: this group of materials is judged by feel, not by datasheet
- State the viscosity grade your formulation was developed against
- Confirm the pharmacopoeial vocabulary your customer requires and verify it against supplier documentation
- Bench results do not transfer automatically to production. Order of addition, shear, neutralisation and cooling profile all change behaviour at scale, so plan a pilot batch on the intended equipment before committing to a production volume.
- Exact specification is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Typical grades
- Light, medium and heavy viscosity grades
- Grades traded against pharmacopoeial vocabulary such as USP
- Buyers search for personal-care, cosmetic and pharmaceutical grade material by name, and those words describe what the buyer needs rather than what is asserted here. Which grade a specific offer corresponds to, and what documentation supports it, is read from the supplier documentation for the exact product quoted.
- Active matter, assay and purity are per-offer values that are declared by the supplier for the exact lot. They change both the use level in the formulation and the true cost per unit of function delivered, so quotations are compared on declared active content rather than on price per kilogram.
- Natural, plant-derived, hypoallergenic, dermatologically tested and similar positioning statements belong to the finished brand and must be supported by the brand owner's own evidence. Any such wording attached to a raw material is treated here as a buyer search term, not as a substantiated property of the material offered.
Comparable materials — how Mineral Oil (cosmetic) sits against alternatives
- Caprylic/capric triglyceride
- Isopropyl myristate
- Dimethicone
- Petrolatum where a semi-solid is acceptable
- Formulators looking for an alternative, replacement or second-source supplier should state the incumbent material, the supplier grade currently approved and the property being matched. Personal-care raw materials are rarely interchangeable on INCI name alone: sensory, rheology, colour, odour and preservative interaction all shift between sources, and a bench trial is the only honest comparison.
Comparable-material reference. Grade selection is confirmed at RFQ against your process.
Procurement coverage
How to specify, order and receive Mineral Oil (cosmetic)
Written for procurement, quality and technical buyers in Canada and the United States. No numeric price, MOQ, stock or lead-time value is published — those are confirmed per shipment in the quotation and against the confirmed batch.
How buyers specify at RFQ
- INCI name and chemical identity of the exact material required
- Physical form supplied and how it is dispersed, dissolved or metered on your equipment
- Active matter or assay as the supplier declares it for that grade
- Colour and odour expectations for the finished format
- Preservation status of the material as supplied, where it is water-containing
- Documentation set required before the material can be used in a batch
- Exact specification is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Packaging options (industry-standard)
- Pail or drum format for bench, pilot and small production batches
- IBC / tote format where a single material is consumed continuously
- Bulk delivery only where the site has dedicated receiving tankage and a controlled fill point
- Packaging options and available pack sizes are confirmed with each quotation.
Storage & handling
- Store sealed, out of direct sunlight and within the temperature window the supplier documentation states for the grade
- Confirm tank, liner, gasket and pump compatibility before the first delivery; the wrong elastomer contaminates a cosmetic batch as effectively as it fails
- Record lot numbers against each finished batch so that a sensory or stability deviation can be traced back to a raw-material lot
- Canadian winter transport and storage matter for this category: several materials freeze, crystallise, cloud or separate at low temperature, and recovery behaviour after freezing is grade-specific. Confirm cold-chain and reconditioning guidance with the supplier documentation before a winter delivery.
Documentation available
- Technical data sheet (TDS) for the exact grade offered, stating the properties as the supplier declares them
- Safety data sheet (SDS) in the format required for Canadian import, in English and French where the receiving site requires it
- Certificate of analysis (COA) against the confirmed production lot
- INCI name and composition statement for finished-product labelling by the brand owner
- Allergen, residual-solvent, heavy-metal or microbiological statements where the finished format requires them and the supplier issues them
- Documentation is confirmed per batch at quotation; availability depends on the grade and supplier offered.
- Cosmetic, drug and household-product ingredients sold into Canada sit under Health Canada requirements including the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist, and INCI naming and labelling obligations fall on the finished-product owner. Whether a specific offer carries the documentation a given regulated use needs is confirmed against supplier paperwork at quotation.
- Contract manufacturers and brand owners usually need the documentation pack approved before a raw material can enter a batch record. Ask for the full pack against the exact grade at the enquiry stage rather than after the order, because documentation availability differs by supplier and by manufacturing site.
RFQ checklist for mineral-oil-cosmetic-canada
Include these fields to receive an accurate Canada-landed quotation
- The finished format the material goes into — rinse-off, leave-on, oral care, household or industrial cleaning
- The function you need it to perform, and the property you are matching if you are replacing an incumbent
- Annual volume and expected quantity per shipment
- Pack format your warehouse and production floor can actually receive and handle
- Documentation required per shipment, including anything your quality system needs before a batch record can open
- Delivery province and site receiving arrangements
- Whether a production-representative sample is needed for approval before the first commercial order
- The phase it is added to and the processing temperature at that point
- Whether the finished format is rinse-off, leave-on or oral care
- The sensory property you are matching if you are replacing an incumbent material
- Landed cost in Canada is driven by pack format, delivery province and receiving arrangements as much as by unit price, and dilute aqueous materials are largely water by weight. Quotations are compared delivered to your plant rather than ex-works.
Technical & procurement detail
Where mineral oil is used+
Mineral oil is an occlusive emollient used in creams, lotions, baby care and body oils. Allzone reviews the intended formulation or process with the supplier before quoting so the correct grade is offered.
Formulation grades are quoted separately+
Personal care, home care and industrial grades of the same chemistry are treated as distinct specifications and are not presented as interchangeable. State the finished product type, use level and pH range in your enquiry so the correct grade is reviewed with the supplier.
How specifications are confirmed+
Allzone does not publish assumed purity, active content, particle size, moisture, origin, certification, regulatory approval, packaging or price values. Grade, specification and documentation are confirmed in writing against supplier technical data sheets and safety data sheets before an order is placed.
Frequently asked questions
What grade of mineral oil do you supply?+
The grade and specification are confirmed at quotation against the supplier technical data sheet. No purity, specification or certification value is published in advance.
Can I request a technical data sheet and a safety data sheet?+
Yes. Both the supplier technical data sheet and the safety data sheet for the quoted grade are provided on request and should be reviewed before purchase and use.
Do you deliver mineral oil across Ontario and Quebec?+
Yes. Freight is arranged across Toronto, the GTA, Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada, and the delivery method is confirmed with the quotation.
What quantities can you supply?+
Quantities are reviewed per enquiry, from smaller lots to container loads.
Technical knowledge for Mineral Oil Supplier — Ontario & Canada
Engineering and purchasing guidance written for this material — understand it, apply it, compare options, specify a grade, and fix production problems.
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Need a quote on Mineral Oil?
Request pricing, TDS/SDS and available documentation. We usually acknowledge enquiries within one business day; samples are subject to supplier availability and product classification.