Table 1. Percentage of hydrophilic and hydrophobic phases and percentage of components in the different emulsions used in the literature (Supplementary Table 1) and in this work.
| Phase | Component | Water-in-oil |
Oil-in-water |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wu | Hwang | Yarkoni | Morales | This work | |||||||
| Polar | 6 | 8 | 99 | 98 | 99 | ||||||
| Deionized water | 6 | 8 | 99 | 98 | 99 | ||||||
| Tween 80 | 0.2 | 0.50 | |||||||||
| “PBS salts” | 0.94 | ||||||||||
| NaCl | 0.84 | 0.84 | |||||||||
| Apolar | 94 | 92 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Oil* | 46.0 | 50.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Tween 80 | 18.0 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Span 80 | 30.0 | 30.0 | |||||||||
| Brij 98 | 12.0 | ||||||||||
*the experiments were performed using the four different compounds: olive oil (OO), soybean oil (SO), squalene (SE), and mineral oil (MO). Phosphate buffered saline (PBS).