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Hair clay pomade help
Hello! I am Alejandro, a hobbyist cosmetic maker and I am having trouble with a hair pomade I’m developing.
I bought a new emulsifying wax sold as BTMS alternative (Cetearyl alcohol>50%, Dipalmitoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium methosulfate>15%<30%, Ceteareth-20>1%<5% acording to the datasheet) and the emulsion is not stable and separates whatever I do. ¿Is this e-wax finicky or is there another problem I am overlooking? Here I leave my formula:
Water phase: 59.7%
- Water: 49.2%
- Glycerin: 0.8%
- Propylene glycol: 1.2%
- Kaolin clay: 6.3%
- Bentonite clay: 2.2%
Oil phase: 37.5%
- Beeswax: 8.1%
- Soy wax: 5.2%
- Shea butter: 6.4%
- Sunflower oil: 4.7%
- Castor oil: 0.8%
- Cetyl alcohol: 1.1%
- ‘BTMS alternative’: 6.8%
- Lanette n: 4.4%
Additives: 2.8%
- Geogard 221: 0.9%
- Vitamin E: 0.5%
- Fragance: 1.4%
I added the lanette N because that was the e-wax I used previously with the same formula and it worked.
I have tried increasing the e-wax up to 10% and it still separates. The addition of the lanette N didn’t seem to do anything.The way I make the emulsion is: heat up both phases to 100º (water bath), mix them, when they reach 65º I add the additives.
Thanks for all the kind responses.
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1 Reply
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Hi Alejandro,
As I’m not familiar with some of the ingredients you’ve used, I can only suggest to use the search function on this page- I know for sure that the subject of “hair pomade” has been discussed here more than once.
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