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Help with sugar scrub formulation
Hello - layperson chemist here. 🙂 I’ve been working on an emulsified sugar scrub and have gotten it close to where I’d like it. The thing I’m trying to fix is the excessive ‘glycerin-like’ feeling that it has when washing off. It feels like when you have too much butter on your hands and it’s hard to rinse - not the same as the feel of washing oils off though. It’s more greasy than that. Once it’s all rinsed, it does not leave that feeling on the skin, though. Only when the water first hits it during the rinsing process. I don’t get the same feeling when trying to rinse off our body oil, so I’m guessing it’s related to either the emulsifier, squalane, and/or the cetyl alcohol? Any insight is much appreciated - thanks!
The full formula is 40% emulsion / 60% exfoliant (sugar). Here is the emulsion formula:
Kokum butter : 5%
Shea butter: 15%
Rice bran oil: 45%
MCT Oil: 8.7%
Jojoba Oil: 5%
Squalane: 5%
Ritamulse (Glyceryl Stearate/Cetearyl Alcohol/Sodium Stearyl): 8%
Cetyl Alcohol: 5%
EOs: 1.7%
SymSave: 1%
Hemp Extract: .7%
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