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My deodorant stick works but it doesn’t glide!
Hi everyone!
I made a deodorant stick recipe and it does not leave a greasy feeling and it keeps it’s shape nicely but when i try to apply it i really have to struggle because it does not glide easily. It feels a bit dry and not emolient.
I made before a similar recipe, only with 15% beeswax and 6% olivem and it was too crumbly. So i am thinking maybe to add cocoa butter, reduce the arrowroot powder to 10%, reduce waxes to 18% in total, remove olivem and maybe add an ester?
Please help me out.The recipe is like this:
Phase Acaprylic capric triglyceride: 27.2%Cetearyl alcohol: 10%Beeswax: 15%Candelilla wax: 10%Olivem 1000: 10%Zinc ricinoleate: 3%Phase BArrowroot powder: 13%Glycerin: 3%Powder extracts: 0,5%Phase CVit E: 0,5%Triethyl citrate: 5%Essential oils: 1,8%Thank you!
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3 Replies
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Reduce wax (cetearyl, candelila and beeswax) increase polyol ( glycerin) add another polyol ( PG or BG)
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you can although add some additives as Some Cellulose Types which helps with the transfer of the Waxes to the skin. Etocell is one I personally used.
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candelilla wax and beeswax are very hard, high-friction materials; if you can get hold of castor wax / hydrogenated castor oil, add it at around 5%, drop the candelilla wax and beeswax, and increase your cetearyl alcohol to around 25%the castor wax will gel the product and give it more thermal stabilityalso, I’d remove Olivem 1000; as there’s no water in the formula it doesn’t serve any useful purpose
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