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body balm texture
Trying to make a “natural” body balm with a petroleum type texture and feel. (not petroleum!)
The ingredient list of the benchmark has the following ricnus communis (castor seed oil), hydrogenated castor oil, beeswax carnauba wax, lavender oil, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus leaf oil, shea butter and vitamin E.
I could find lots of castor seed oil (castor wax) but I could not find hydrogenated castor oil with out the PEG -40. Is there such a thing or am I missing something?
How do I stop the final texture from feeling grainy after rubbing and melting it for 30 secs or more.
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6 Replies
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Castor wax is hydrogenated castor oil.
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To reduce the grainy texture, try to reduce the beeswax.
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@ozgirl
Hydrogenated castor oil (castor wax) how is that difference caster seed oil? Why would they mention this separately on the ingredient list? -
They mention it seperately because one of them is just castor oil, which is liquid and the other one is hydrogenated and a wax/castor wax (but not a polyethylene glycol derivative like PEG 40 HCO).
(There’s PEG 40 HCO (hydrogenated castor oil) and also PEG 40 castor oil by the way.)With ‘petroleum’ you mean either ‘petroleum jelly’ or ‘petrolatum’.
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Lots of suppliers sell it. BASF for example.
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I use hydrogenated vegetable oil mostly as an oil thickener or stabiliser in emulsions. Right now I have Viscolid of Dr. Straetmans.
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