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Preservative Advice Please =)
Hello,
I would be extremely grateful of any help with my query from you wonderfully smart folk.
I have made my own face cream for years and always make a batch to share with family & friends. Now, I and a few of said friends are going travelling for around 6-8 months and I have been charged with sorting out our face creams.
I always make a 500ml batch consisting of 70% jasmine tea, around 20% oils such as argon, and a few essentials, and roughly 10% beeswax.
I am happy with this formula but aware that it only lasts a short period kept in the fridge and obviously won’t last for our travel period. So I did quite a bit of research on preservatives (something I’ve never used/had a clue about before) and settled on adding Germall Plus liquid. However, when I explained to the seller what I would use it for he advised that I would need a selection of preservatives and reeled off a few more products that I should buy from him to make my creams last. This problems had not come up in my research and left me a little stumped.
Finally to my question then, is the use of Germall Plus enough to preserve my creams? I wanted to keep my recipe as natural as possible (but couldn’t find anything natural that could do the preservative job) so would like to check first before adding a variety of preservatives if this is actually unnecessary.
Thank you for reading and any help would be much appreciated.
Patch
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3 Replies
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Yes, Germall Plus should be enough for most any system. Use 0.5% and you should be good to go. However, every system is different and microbe are resilient so you should do a preservative efficacy test on the formula to be safe.
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Personally, I’d add a chelating agent to boost the preservative efficacy. Sodium Phytate is a natural chelant.
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@bobzchemist - great idea
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