Punica granatum seed oil hydroxyphenethyl esters (PHE), commercialized as Delipidol®, were kindly provided by BioEurope (Solabia group, Anet, France). Pluronic® F127 was kindly provided by BASF (Levallois-Perret, France). Polyvinyl alcohol (Mw: 31,000–50,000 g/mol, 87–89% hydrolysed) (PVA), Vitamin E (VitE) and dimethyl carbonate (DMC) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France). Glycerol was purchased from Cooper® (Melun, France) and SepicideTM HB from SEPPIC® (La garenne-Colombes, France). SepicideTM HB is a mixture of phenoxyethanol, methylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben and butylparaben, henceforth referred as AMA (for AntiMicrobial Agent) in the text. Ultrapure water was obtained with a MilliQ system (Millipore, Molsheim, France).
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