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Emulsifier for Honey in Oil product
Hi there,
I am wanting to make a honey hair oil. It will be roughly 15% honey with 85% oil. No added water apart from the water content in honey. What would you recommend as an emulsifier to ensure that the honey and oil stays combined and in what ratios? I was thinking of using Cetearyl Olivate & Sorbitan Olivate as want to stick to ‘natural proven safe’ products. thanks! -
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Have you considered using honey powder instead of raw honey? I don’t have experience with such type of products but it seems to me that such a system would be ahydrous and thus won’t need preservative (and since you want to stick to “natural” it will be a problem to find effective natural preservative). Also, 15% of honey might make it too sticky. If it’s for “claims” you can add much less.
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You’ll want to use a low HLB emulsifier to create a water-in-oil emulsion such as Glyceryl Oleate or Lecithin (HLB 4) …. if you use Lecithin inquire as to the HLB because different Lecithins have HLBs ranging from 4 to 9.
Glyceryl Oleate would be my first choice as opposed to Lecithin
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Hi Mark, Thanks so much for your help. What quantity would you recommend using the Glyceryl Oleate in?
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@Emilywhite360:
Try it at 3% and see how that works.
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