Formulating

what happened to my lotion?

Posted by Chemist5000 on July 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm

I was making a cream with benzocaine. The cream was fine (thick and white) before I added my benzocaine premix. When added the premix it thinned and turned yellow. Didn’t really separate but didn’t smell good either… What happened?

Deionized Water	48.2498
1,3 Propanediol	5.0000
Natrosol 250	0.4000
Cetearyl Phosphate	8.0000
Cetearyl Alcohol	5.0000
Lexfeel 7	11.5000
Dimethicone 350 cst	1.5000
NaOh (50% aq soln)	1.0000
Benzocaine USP	7.0000
Transcutol CG	11.0000
Ginseng Extract	0.0001
L-Arginine HCL	0.0001
Phenoxyethanol	1.0000
Potassium sorbate	0.1000
NA -benzoate	0.2000

Chemist5000 replied 5 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies

0 Replies

Sorry, there were no replies found.