cream with only 3 ingredients

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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, 2 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

ngarayeva001 said:

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

MarkBroussard said:

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.