PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oily gelling agent effectively gelling various kinds of oils and fats, a silicone oil or the like, to provide a gel composition obtained by using the oily gelling agent, and to provide applications of them.SOLUTION: The oily gelling agent comprises oils and fats using palmitic acid and behenic acid in a mass ratio of from 30:70 to 70:30 as constituent fatty acids, preferably containing &ge70 mass% of a triglyceride wherein &ge60% of the behenic acid is present at the sn-2 position, and having &le10 of iodine value. The gel composition contains 0.1-50 mass% of the oily gelling agent. The water-in-oil type or oil-in-water type emulsion composition contains the gelling agent. The nonaqueous foaming composition is also provided.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】各種の油脂類やシリコーンオイルなどを効果的にゲル化させる油性ゲル化剤、この油性ゲル化剤を用いて得られたゲル組成物及びそれらの用途を提供する。【解決手段】質量比30:70~70:30のパルミチン酸とベヘン酸を構成脂肪酸とすると共に、好ましくはベヘン酸の60%以上がsn-2位置に存在するトリグリセリド70質量%以上を含み、かつヨウ素価が10以下である油脂からなる油性ゲル化剤、該油性ゲル化剤0.1~50質量%を含有するゲル組成物、前記ゲル化剤を含む油中水型又は水中油型乳化組成物、及び非水型の起泡性組成物である。【選択図】なし
