From my perch on the engine cover of a special operations gunboat, I can see the source of this weird racket--someone on one of the other boats gliding down Kentucky's Salt River is firing a minigun into the woods. Every second, hundreds of 7.62 mm bullets pour out of the spinning machine-gun barrels.
Cetyl and stearyl alcohol, both typically used in hair conditioners, work together and separately with other ingredients to make hair softer and silkier after a washing. Fatty alcohols make up part of the base of the conditioner formula.
So here is the tenuous connection: synthetic cetearyl ethylhexanoate (PurCellin Oil) is an ester and it repels water, duck preening oil contains other different esters and it also repels water! In fact all (ester) waxes repel water.sters are a very common class of compound in nature â all oils and waxes are esters. An ester is a combination of an alcohol and an acid. Cetearyl ethylhexanoate (PurCellin Oil) is a synthetic ester, it is a combination of cetyl and stearyl alcohols with 2-ethylhexanoic acid.