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Water based pomade
i making pomade based water, When I warm it up forms dense bubbles and foams. I would like to know if anyone has a tip The foam that is left over the surface.
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14 Replies
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Try vacuuming the air out?
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a sonicator should also work if you warm to reduce viscosity and leave in overnight.
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Not sure how you are doing your mixing. glass stir? Stick mixer? milk frother?
Would need more info on your process. And temps.
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In this case I am using a boiler, when the temperature rises above 50 degrees celsius, the product creates a thick foam.
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Still impossible to give you an answer without more details. I’ve never seen foam when making water based pomade.
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Try taking it it to a higher temperature and see if the bubbles subside.
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Maybe try altering your variables and parameters.
Are you using constant or variable agitation? Keep your heat below 50 deg. C (maybe at 40?-see if the foaming still persists?).
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Do NOT keep heat under 50 c. Oils & waxes are to be heat at 80-85C.
again without knowing what ingredients you are using it’s impossible to help determine what is causing the foaming .
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@Chemist77 wouldnt heating it more be likely to cause more bubbles?
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If it is ceteareth-25 based then yes it will.
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what about cetereath-20?
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Try it, have seen it behaving better than 25 ethoxylate.
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try adding surfactants slowly beneath the surface and decrease agitation.
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Hi, I have the same problem even with my sample batches being reduced only to ceteareth-20 at 29% and the rest 71% water, I tried reducing mixing speed to the minimum, what I get is only about half of batch clear.
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