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  • cream with only 3 ingredients

    Posted by smok on February 19, 2019 at 7:37 pm
    hi there
     very bad english
    I prepared a cream with only 3 ingredients
    water lanoline vaseline glycerine, glycolic extract of plants
    separartion after 2 weeks
    what hapened
    and what exctly i need to aded

    em88 replied 5 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • Gunther

    Member
    February 19, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    You are missing a proper emulsifier, so lanolin and vaselin separate and sit on top of water.

  • ngarayeva001

    Member
    February 20, 2019 at 10:29 am

    Where is your preservative? All products with water should include preservatives.

  • MarkBroussard

    Member
    February 20, 2019 at 11:41 am

    Your problem is that you have 5 ingredients, not 3.  Cut out the glycerine and Glycolic extract of plants … that should solve your problem … you will then have 3 ingredients

    (1) water (2) lanoline (3) vaseline (4) glycerine  (5) glycolic extract of plants

  • em88

    Member
    February 20, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    Lanolin is w/o emulsifier. Make sure the water phase is up to 1/2 of lanoline quantity and you are good to go. You can add up to 5% cetylic alcohol if you want to incorporate more water.
    That is a very easy emulsion, if you are having problem with this kind of formulation I’d strongly suggest to learn more. 

  • smok

    Member
    February 21, 2019 at 10:54 am

    Where is your preservative? All products with water should include
    preserva
    thanks
    my problem is with emulsion
  • smok

    Member
    February 21, 2019 at 10:54 am

    em88 said:

    Lanolin is w/o emulsifier. Make sure the water phase is up to 1/2 of lanoline quantity and you are good to go. You can add up to 5% cetylic alcohol if you want to incorporate more water.
    That is a very easy emulsion, if you are having problem with this kind of formulation I’d strongly suggest to learn more. 

    realy you understand me
    what you suggest me to learn
  • smok

    Member
    February 21, 2019 at 10:57 am

    Your problem is that you have 5 ingredients, not 3.  Cut out the glycerine and Glycolic extract of plants … that should solve your problem … you will then have 3 ingredients

    (1) water (2) lanoline (3) vaseline (4) glycerine  (5) glycolic extract of plants

    my problem is with separation..i will try to cancel gly and
    glycolic extract of plants
  • em88

    Member
    February 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    smok said:

    em88 said:

    Lanolin is w/o emulsifier. Make sure the water phase is up to 1/2 of lanoline quantity and you are good to go. You can add up to 5% cetylic alcohol if you want to incorporate more water.
    That is a very easy emulsion, if you are having problem with this kind of formulation I’d strongly suggest to learn more. 

    realy you understand me
    what you suggest me to learn


    Learn about emulsions. 

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