Hair pomade formulation help

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Hair pomade formulation help

Posted by auraperfumes786 on February 12, 2018 at 2:05 pm

Hi
I am making hair pomade with the following ingredients. I would like it to give strong hold, good texture, easy rinse off. Could you please let me the proportion of the following ingredients:
Candelilla wax
E wax
Shea butter
Lanolin
Cocoa butter
Mango butter
Apricot kernel oil
Grapeseed oil
Argan oil
Tetrasodium EDTA

Cetyl palmitate
Propylene Glycol
Deionised water
Stearic acid
Pvp k90
Carbomer 940
Linalool

belassi replied 6 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

belassi

Member
February 12, 2018 at 6:26 pm

This is for you to discover otherwise you will never learn.
Chemist77

Member
February 13, 2018 at 3:02 am

That looks like a copy paste from an LOI of some similar product. As @Belassi said, run a few trials and then come up with the questions.
Microformulation

Member
February 13, 2018 at 5:18 am

Wait? Huh? Can’t I just post a LOI and get a free Formula? Thanks for telling me, I was about to post all my pending work and take the rest of the week off.

Seriously though, this is the type of work that people charge money for to make a living or alternatively will create their own product through their own trial and error. “Give a man a fish…”
auraperfumes786

Member
February 21, 2018 at 10:53 pm

Hi
I tried to make with the below formula. The pomade has turned out to be really smooth and the emulsion looks stable. However while cooling down it formed a skimming layer like milk. And it feels very heavy when applied.
Candelilla wax 5gms
E wax 5gms
Shea butter 5gms
Lanolin 5gms
Mango butter 5gms
Apricot kernel oil 2gms
Grapeseed oil 2gms
Argan oil 0.5gm
Tetrasodium EDTA 0.25gm

Cetyl palmitate 3gms
Propylene Glycol 2gms
Deionised water 46 gms
Stearic acid 1gm
Pvp k90 0.5gms
Carbomer 940 0.2gms
Linalool 0.3.
Could you please help me in correcting this. So I can get good hold and also texture. Also if I missed out on adding anything to make the product stable and high performing.

Many thanks.
belassi

Member
February 22, 2018 at 1:07 am

Also if I missed out on adding anything
- the missing 18% perhaps?
zaidjeber

Member
February 22, 2018 at 2:00 am

@auraperfumes786 you have around 30% oils and waxes, try to increase the carbomer % little bit.
Did you neutralize the carbomer? what did you use?
BTW, there is no preservative? and as Belassi mentioned, missing ~18%?
DAS

Member
February 22, 2018 at 5:48 pm

Its posted in gr, not %.

It will be much easier for us if you post you formula in %.

For what I can see you haven’t emulsified the oils properly. Study the HLB to understand why and how.

http://www.academia.edu/29659624/HLB_system_Crodas_Time-Saving_Guide_to_Surfactant_Selection_Personal_Care_Edition_tHe_Innovation_you_can_build_on_tm
belassi

Member
February 23, 2018 at 12:50 am

You will have to divide each value by 0.82 and list as a percentage. We do expect people to post formulae using percentage content, it’s the norm.