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  • arrggg Lip Gloss

    Posted by JD on April 15, 2014 at 1:40 am

    Hi,

    I made several lip gloss with main ingredient Hydrogenated Polyisobutene. I also have jojoba oil, vit e acetate, liquid iron oxides,mica, and phenoxyethanol sa..

    How did my color change after 1 day? what can cause this change in color? it got darker
    JD replied 9 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • bobzchemist

    Member
    April 15, 2014 at 8:21 am

    I’d bet a weeks  pay that you didn’t use any pre-made color dispersions. As pigments ‘wet out’ their color gets more intense. It can take a day or two for the color to fully develop if your mixing isn’t strong enough…

  • chemist77

    Member
    April 15, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    As suggested by Bob use pre-milled castor oil dispersions, work fab with HPIB.

  • JD

    Member
    April 15, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    I do have pre dispersed but it must be my mixing method….this stuff is viscous as syrup. I just bought some eq for mixing..any recommendation as how long to mix and what RPM to use?

  • chemist77

    Member
    April 15, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    I remember using Indopol H for my formula, you have to heat it up so that the dispersion is uniform and throughout. Although I had some ester oils, lanolin anh, petrolatum among other things. The product was absolutely brilliant.

  • JD

    Member
    April 15, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    I do like working with it, thank you!

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