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  Posted by crillz on September 27, 2017 at 12:33 pm

  Hi gang, having difficulty with a homemade balm concoction I’m brewing up. The end results aren’t very consistent and was hoping for some help with what temperatures I should be heating ingredients to and also pouring. Originally my guess is that I wasn’t heating the ingredients enough (60 degrees Celsius) as chunks were appearing through the middle and also looking kind of grainy. After remelting and heating to a higher temp (90 degrees celsius) the product seemed a bit runny throughout.

  My ingredients are: 
  Cocoa Butter 30%
  Shea Butter 10%
  Emu Oil 35%
  ZMG 9%
  Flaxseed Oil 9%
  Avacado Oil 4%
  Allantoin 1.5%
  Vitamin E 0.5%
  Fragrance 1%

  Also thinking I mite need another ingredient to help it gel together more, but my main question was about what temp to heat to, pour and cool. 

  crillz replied 6 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bill_Toge

  Member

  September 28, 2017 at 12:18 am

  you need to heat it to a high enough temperature to ensure all the solid matter melts in reasonable time

  allantoin is not oil-soluble, so it will make your formula grainy

  also, what’s ZMG?

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  zaidjeber

  Member

  September 28, 2017 at 1:47 am

  I agree with @Bill_Toge “allantoin is not oil-soluble” 
  ZMG, is that Zinc Monoglycerolate?

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  crillz

  Member

  September 28, 2017 at 3:48 am

  Ah thanks Bill, I was eliminating the other ingredients one at a time but hadn’t got to Allantoin yet.
  And Yes Zaidjeber that’s correct Microstat 42 Zinc Monoglycerolate.
  Ill see how we go now. Thanks again.

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