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Hair clay “sweating” oil after setting
Phase A
Water 25
Propanediol 2
Peg 40 5Phase 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 7Phase C
Fragrance 1I 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!
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@samsal where is your emulsifier in the system? oliwax is not then you pass the level of use of it.
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