• Formulating

  Hair clay “sweating” oil after setting

  Posted by samsal on July 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm

  Phase A
  Water 25
  Propanediol 2
  Peg 40 5

  Phase B
  Kaolin clay 20
  shea butter 10
  cetearyl alcohol 5
  green tea butter 4
  muru muru butter 5
  glycine benzoic acid 1
  meadowfoam oil 5
  abyssinian oil 10
  oliwax 7

  Phase C
  Fragrance 1

  I was working on my clay pomade recipe last night. I started by melting the butters, wax, and oils in a double boiler. Adding the clay once everything in the oil phase was liquid and then added phase A. I felt the mixture was too watery to set and added another 20g of clay to the mixture. I turned off heat and let it cool a little and added the fragrance. I put the jar into the fridge covered for 3 hours and removed. I noticed the surface looked wet and thought it was just condensation so I covered it and let it sit on my table overnight. This morning I tried testing a little. The texture is very nice, pleasing however the surface of the pomade is still “wet” with oil. I noticed it pooled a little into the spot where I scooped. My question is did I add too much oil/butter to the mixture? Did I add to many? Should I be sticking to 1-2 butter/oils? Forgive me, Im not a chemist by trade, Im a hairstylist but I tried to be as detailed as possible. Thanks in advance for any help!

  samsal replied 2 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Fekher

  Member

  July 19, 2022 at 9:59 pm

  @samsal where is your emulsifier in the system? oliwax is not then you pass the level of use of it. 

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  samsal

  Member

  July 20, 2022 at 12:00 am

  Fekher said:

  @samsal where is your emulsifier in the system? oliwax is not then you pass the level of use of it. 

  I was using the peg 40 as the emulsifier 

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