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Hardness of Lip Balm at 10 degree c.
Hello Everyone,
I am formulating Lip Balm. It is stable at 45 degree c and room temperature. but at lower temperature it becomes so hard that we need to pressurize the balm to get payoff . Also it looses shine and becomes dry. Please suggest what should I try to solve this issue. Please see the below formulation -
1. Castor Oil -34.9 %
2. Olive Oil - 27.4 %
3. Shea Butter - 15 %
4. Candellila Wax - 5%
5. Olivem 900 - 3%
6. Dextrin Palmitate - 4%
7. Oleoflex FG 100 - 2%
8.Cetostearyl Alcohol - 3 %
9. Sunflower Wax - 3 %
10. Tinogard TT - 0.2 %
11. Hydrolyzed Oat Protein (and) - 1 %
Cetearyl Alcohol (and)
Glyceryl Oleate (and)
Glyceryl Stearate
12. Active - 0.5
13. Strawberry Flavour - 1%
14. Uva Ursi Extract - 0.5 %
15. Greentea Extract - 0.5 % -
8 Replies
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@Shubh123 If you want ro reduce hardness, you could try lowering your candelilla wax and increase one of your liquid oils a bit.
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@ketchito Thanks for the suggestion. I will try.
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Agree. There is a high solid content for it to be softish at low temperatures.
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@ketchito I tried by reducing wax. It is now fine at lower temperature but then loosing viscosity at 40 degree.
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@Shubh123 You nees to fine tune, since all waxes have different melting points. Which wax did you reduce?
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@ketchito I have reduce candellila wax from 5% to 3% and Sunflower wax from 3% to 2%.
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try to lower the caster oil and increase the olive oil.
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@michaelpolymer Sure. I will try and let you know. Thank you.
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