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Essential oil liquifying gels
I’ve been working on a gel and within a weeks time the gel turns into liquid. I removed all extra ingredients from my formula to figure out the cause, so I’ve only used now powder, glycerine, water and essential oils. I use low shear just to mix the powder ( Konjac)and glycerin into the water phase and add essential oils. No matter the percentage of powder, it will always liquify. The essential oils I use are lime, lemon, lavender, and cinnamon together at .25%, powder at 1.8%, glycerine at 7% and water the remainder.
Any educated guess on why the essential oils liquify the gel?
Any re
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3 Replies
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i have doning on such type of gel for 1 year.
Dear, add silica fumed poweder in oil ….in order to make oil into gel…then it will be ok
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Can you make a sample without glycerine?
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Do you have a problem with carbomers for making gels? Sounds like those “essentials” may have residual elements such as geraniols or doped with phenoxyethanol. A carbomer gel would be unaffected.
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