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  Heat Stability of lipbalm

  Posted by cossci21 on January 11, 2015 at 10:16 pm

  Hello
  I am making a natural lipbalm with shea butter, kokum butter, candellila wax and safflower oil.
  I have found with heating that it must be held at a high temperature for a certain amount of time so that the balm does not become grainy.
  however over time it sets perfectly and is fine if it isnt left in the heat.
  If left in the heat can see that one of the butters precipitates out into fine particles causing a mottling effect?

  How can i increase the stability and stop this from happening over time? Do i just decrease the butters content?

  Thanks

  cossci21 replied 9 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  MakingSkincare

  Member

  January 12, 2015 at 7:29 am

  You could try swapping out 10-20% of the butter for captex SBE

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  belassi

  Member

  January 12, 2015 at 10:22 am

  The shea butter is prone to cause this. Try adding an ester.

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  cossci21

  Member

  January 13, 2015 at 5:14 am

  Hello making skincare and belassi

  Great thanks I will try both

  cheers

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