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  Essential oil liquifying gels

  Posted by Favour on June 22, 2024 at 9:22 pm

  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

  chemicalmatt replied 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  kbr

  Member

  June 25, 2024 at 9:29 pm

  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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  ketchito

  Member

  June 26, 2024 at 7:20 am

  Can you make a sample without glycerine?

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  chemicalmatt

  Member

  June 26, 2024 at 2:48 pm

  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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