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Body lotion seperation issue
Good Evening Everybody!!
Couple of years ago I prepared a commercial batch of body lotion for my client. Unfortunately seperation occurred during its shelf life. Here is the formula :-
PHASE A ——-
BHT 0.15%
Cetostearyl alcohol 2.08%
Glyceryl Monosterate ( SE ) 1.38%
Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate 2.50%
Emulsifying Wax( cetearyl alcohol & Polysorbate 60) 1.62%
LLP 6%
CCTG 2%
Dimethicone 0.50%
PHASE B
Water qs to 100%
EDTA 0.15%
TEA 0.07%
PHASE C
Euxyl pe 9010 1%
Fragrance. 67%
Ph adjusted to 6.25
What is wrong with formula ?Kindly share your expert opinion to pinpoint my mistake to avoid seperation in fresh batch.
Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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What is LLP? How do you adjust your pH? Can you tell more about your manufacturing method?
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Yes. LLP is Light Liquid Paraffin
SOP:- Heat water phase & oil phase ingredients separately to 80 deg Celsius.
Add oil phase to water phase under stirring.
Continue stirring( including homogenization for 5 minutes) for 45 min.
Apply cooling & continue stirring.
Add preservative & fragrance bellow 40 degree celcius.
Adjust the pH with TEA .
Today I made a trial batch with bellow mentioned changes-
Emulsifying wax 3%
Cetearyl alcohol - not added
Glyceryl stearate NSE
Sodium stearoyl Lactylate 0.5%
Stearic acid 0.5%
TEA 0.04%
carbopol 0.20%
Batch seems to be good in terms of viscosity & appearance. I will update in due course.
Mean while pl share your opinion regarding the problem of seperation so that I shall try another small batch. Thank you very much.
BTW :- You have helped me a lot during my Hair conditioner project. The project was successfully launched. I am much obliged to you.
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I’m glad to hear that, we’re all here to help. I never used sodium stearoyl lactylate in an emulsion, but what I’d do is increase your Emulsifying wax 1% more (keeping the Cetearyl alcohol you already have) and perhaps reducing the mineral oil a bit (non polar oils are hard to emulsify).
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@KetchioThanks for your suggestion. Hopefully it should work.
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