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  Botulism

  Posted by Anonymous on August 2, 2018 at 7:16 pm

  Hi everyone! I am so glad to be on this board; so many questions come up in my experiments with small batch cream, soap and body product making. I’ve discovered that aloe vera gel and oil combine very nicely into a lotion without any emulsifiers.
  I was thinking of making a “dry” version of this lotion to avoid preservatives that you “just add water to”. I would “dry” the oil with tapioca maltodextrin, and add dehydrated aloe vera. The client could just take some in their hand and “add water” to it to make a lotion. Here is my question! Is there a risk of botulism developing in the dry mixture with the tapioca and dry aloe vera sitting with it in the package over time? I wonder if anyone has an idea about this? Thank you!

  Gene replied 6 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Gene

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  August 3, 2018 at 1:40 pm

  I think botulism would be the least of your worries 

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