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Please take a look at my formula? First timer!
Hey all. Hope you are well. First ever time having a go in the kitchen yesterday!Could you take a little look at my formula please?
Shea butter 60%
Apricot Kernal Oil 20%
Evening Primrose Oil 10%
Grapeseed oil 8%
Sweet Orange Essential Oil 1%
Vitamin E 1%
A few things to mention: I melted the Shea butter using double boiler method, added the oils whilst still hot (didn’t heat the oils), chucked in the fridge for 30 mins, added essential oil and vit E and then whipped. It didn’t go extremely fluffy, more like a lotion.Product felt a bit too oily/greasy, didn’t sink into the skin well but did eventually.Also important to mention, it would suggest 1% Vit E is far too much, more like 0.1%, but I can’t get 0.1% of Vit E oil out of the little beaker, it’s far too gloopy and you lose most of it to the spoon/vial
Do I even have the process right? Should oils and butters be heated? What should I change in formulation to be more body buttery, less greasy! I’ve been researching to high heavens! Thank you! -
3 Replies
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Oils can be heated in general. It’s not that you are doing anything wrong, but it’s whipped butter. It will be greasy. You can make an o/w lotion that will be less greasy, but it’s a completely different thing.
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I think you should study how to make lotions. I don’t understand what you are trying to achieve with your formulation. A body butter? You will never be satisfied with this formulation unless you enjoy spreading straight butter/oil on your skin.
Look for Polawax NF as an emulsifier, it is very easy to use.
Also a tip for measuring small amounts of an ingredient -
Use a 2-3 decimal place accurate scale (jewelers or pocket scale)
Place Vitamin E container on scale and tare
Use a disposable plastic pipette (Amazon) to remove the necessary quantityIf you started at 0.00 and then the scale tells you -0.20, then you have used 0.20 grams. Its not too accurate with something as thick as Vitamin E as it can stick to the pipette but it is certainly better than trying to measure it in a small beaker. You could always place your product beaker on the scale and add the Vitamin E drop by drop. Conclusion, you are much better off with plastic pipettes and a small precise scale.
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60% shea butter, with that much shea butter, it will always be greasy. I use shea butter in a skin moisturizer and use 5% shea. Total oils end up around 10%. I absolutely agree with Cafe33. Once you discover how to mix oil and water, it opens up a whole new world.
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