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HELP! MY STICK WILL NOT SOLIDIFY!!
I’m trying to make an eyeshadow crayon that can be used as liner and has long wearing properties. I have tried about 3 different formulas and none of them will solidify. Help please. I’m running out of ingredients. Here are the formulas:
#120 15.00% oils 3 castor 10% silicone resin 2 25% c12-15 5 10% isododecane 2 15% beeswax 3 5% caranauba wax 1 9.00% laurel laurate 1.8 6.00% color 1.2 brown oxide & golden lava2% boron nitrade 0.4 2% magnesium stearate 0.4 1% sil dim silicate 0.2 100.00% I FIGURED MAGNESIUM STEARATE WAS THE CULPRIT AS I’VE HAD THIS ISSUE WITH IT BEFORE SO I TOOK IT OUT AND TRIED THIS FORMULA adding cetyl alcohol, lowering the silicone resin and the laurel laurate. I wanted to keep butters out of this as it’s going on the eyes and eyes are already oily. In all cases I dissolved the silicone resin in the c12-15 first.
20 20.00% oils 4 5% silicone resin 1 20% c12-15 4 10% ipm 2 20% beeswax 4 3% cetyl alcohol 0.6 5% caranauba wax 1 2.50% laurel laurate 0.5 9.00% color 1.8 1% boron nitrade 0.1 5% silica microspheres 1 100.00% Still crumbling. I set them in the freezer for about an hour and then leave them overnight. They remain like a hard cream. Could the issue be the laurel laurate or the silicone resin? Am I not including something that is needed to make this hard? Need help as I seem to have this issue a lot. As an aside my first formula worked and it is below, but i wanted to add something to give this longer wear and more adhesion since it’s going on the eyes.
10 30.00% oils 3 12% isododecane 1.2 5% soft butter 0.5 10% hard butter 1 19% beeswax 1.9 4% caranauba wax 0.4 2% lanolin 0.2 7.50% laurel laurate 0.75 7.00% color 0.7 1% boron nitrade 0.1
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