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  What caused the crystals on the surface of lip balm?

  Posted by michaelpolymer on April 22, 2024 at 6:48 pm

  I encounterd two cases regarding the little white crystals on the surface, they all contain shea butter and beeswax, is the shea butter caused the blooming? How to solve the case?

  

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  michaelpolymer replied 5 days, 17 hours ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  evchem2

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  April 23, 2024 at 7:26 am

  If you search in this forum for bloom/blooming, you can see this problem has been discussed a few times here.

  https://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/discussion/bloom-testing/

  https://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/discussion/preventing-blooming-sweating-in-anhydrous-products-%e2%81%89%ef%b8%8f/

  

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  Bloom Testing - Chemists Corner

  Hi all,I'm working on a lip balm (going into a tube, not a stick, but is anhydrous) and my customer asked if I've done bloom…

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    michaelpolymer

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    April 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Thanks for your reply. The polyglyceryl-3/6 easters will help, may I know the mechnism about this.

    I share another pic, is the pic same blooming issue?

    

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