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  • Hair clay “sweating” oil after setting

    Posted by samsal on July 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm

    Phase A
    Water 25
    Propanediol 2
    Peg 40 5

    Phase B
    Kaolin clay 20
    shea butter 10
    cetearyl alcohol 5
    green tea butter 4
    muru muru butter 5
    glycine benzoic acid 1
    meadowfoam oil 5
    abyssinian oil 10
    oliwax 7

    Phase C
    Fragrance 1

    I was working on my clay pomade recipe last night. I started by melting the butters, wax, and oils in a double boiler. Adding the clay once everything in the oil phase was liquid and then added phase A. I felt the mixture was too watery to set and added another 20g of clay to the mixture. I turned off heat and let it cool a little and added the fragrance. I put the jar into the fridge covered for 3 hours and removed. I noticed the surface looked wet and thought it was just condensation so I covered it and let it sit on my table overnight. This morning I tried testing a little. The texture is very nice, pleasing however the surface of the pomade is still “wet” with oil. I noticed it pooled a little into the spot where I scooped. My question is did I add too much oil/butter to the mixture? Did I add to many? Should I be sticking to 1-2 butter/oils? Forgive me, Im not a chemist by trade, Im a hairstylist but I tried to be as detailed as possible. Thanks in advance for any help!

    samsal replied 2 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Fekher

    Member
    July 19, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    @samsal where is your emulsifier in the system? oliwax is not then you pass the level of use of it. 

  • samsal

    Member
    July 20, 2022 at 12:00 am

    Fekher said:

    @samsal where is your emulsifier in the system? oliwax is not then you pass the level of use of it. 

    I was using the peg 40 as the emulsifier 

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