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  Can I warm BTMS, Cetearyl alcohol, and water together?

  Posted by avaanstar on February 3, 2019 at 4:54 pm

  Usually I have been using a double boiler to warm up hair product ingredients—with water in one pyrex cup and BTMS & Cetearyl alcohol (CreamMaker CAT) in another pyrex cup… But then when I have to pour the BTMS & Cetearyl alcohol into a mason jar in order to use my stickblender, only some of it pours easily like a liquid, the rest dries up and freezes like a candle… making it so I am not able to get all of it out of the pyrex cup. I am wondering what i am doing wrong? Can I warm the BTMS, Cetearyl alcohol, and water in the same cup so I can pour it more easily into the mason jar?

  Thank you!

  Gunther replied 5 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Gunther

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  February 4, 2019 at 8:39 pm

  If I’m not mistaken, BTMS-50 is self emulsifying so yes, you can mix everything together, warm and stir. Just add the volatiles (i.e. cyclomethicone) at the end so they don’t evaporate as much.

  Personally, I like to warm water to a near boil before adding anything

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