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Making Deodarant

OldPerry replied 8 years, 2 months ago 11 Members · 36 Replies

DavidW

Member
April 2, 2015 at 11:54 pm

I’ve just given you $500 to $2,000 worth of free advice because I am feeling generous. Play with it, try some things on your own, do some research and see what you come up with. Let us know. Then if you have problems tell us what you have tried and results you have gotten and maybe you will get more help. However, if your not doing work on your own nobody is going to continue giving you free information. Good luck and have fun.
MarkBroussard

Member
April 10, 2015 at 6:43 pm

As a follow-up, I tried making deodorant sticks using Carageenan/Hydroxyethycellulose and Carageenan/Xanthan Gum per the following patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6312702

Quite honestly, I find Sodium Stearate easier to work with and the end product was superior. The Carageenan sticks had a nice light feel with no residue and absorbed quite quickly, but I did not much like the sensorial.

Now, I did also use Carageenan/Hydroxyethylcellulose and 3.5% Sodium Stearate which gave an interesting product sensorial, but … not quite sure about it.
DavidW

Member
April 10, 2015 at 9:44 pm

Thanks for the follow up. More than I can say for the original poster.
Bobzchemist

Member
April 10, 2015 at 10:00 pm

@DavidW - I think we have to start nagging people about good behavior.

(Dear God - I’ve become my father. )
bortopa

Member
April 11, 2015 at 12:40 am

:-* haha, thanks all
DavidW

Member
April 12, 2015 at 1:29 am

ahhh , there we go
bortopa

Member
April 17, 2015 at 4:53 am

DavidW, you are way out of line with your remarks, you need a reality check!
DavidW

Member
April 19, 2015 at 11:42 am

Really? I don’t think so. Common courtesy is never out of line. That is all I will say on this subject.
Kirk

Member
August 7, 2015 at 9:34 am

Hi @Bobzchemist!

I have tried making a prototype of deodorant stick using the method that you mentioned. It worked well.

The deodorant stick that I made have the right hardness and the feel was non sticky.

Thank you for the wonderful advice.
tags

Member
September 1, 2016 at 12:31 am

Mock deodorant formula:

30- propanediol
25- water
20- sodium stearate
10- ceteareth 25
5- aloe
4-cyclomethicone
3- zinc ricinoleate
2- saccharomyces ferment
1- phenoxyethanol

consistency is somewhere between a stick and a gel. Not bad overall, it does sweat. Mark, you mentioned earlier that Propanediol can’t hold enough water. Why is that?

is this a contrived formula? Aloe is added for marketing. Saccharomyces ferment for use and marketing. Thoughts?
OldPerry

Member
September 1, 2016 at 12:17 pm

If Aloe is used for marketing, 5% is excessive. You could go 1% or less.

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