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  • baileybreakthrough

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    May 16, 2024 at 2:23 am in reply to: Grainy lip balms / blooming issue / HELP!

    I can’t seem to get the Polyglyceryl-3 diisostearate in NZ… is <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(-bb-body-text-color); background-color: var(-bb-content-background-color);”>Polyglyceryl 4 Oleate the same? Or completely different… I’m hoping to find an ingredient I can add into my recipe to prevent the crystallization. That would be the best outcome really.

  • baileybreakthrough

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    May 12, 2024 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Grainy lip balms / blooming issue / HELP!

    Sorry that was meant to say heat up to 175 degrees (F) - not 70% 🙂

  • baileybreakthrough

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    May 15, 2024 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Grainy lip balms / blooming issue / HELP!

    Hi there, thank you so much for your information. It was fantastic. I went ahead and ordered some Murumuru Butter and have just experimented with some lip balms today using it. What an AWFUL smell/taste it has!!! Even raw, and then while melting, and in the final product. I’m confused 🙂

  • baileybreakthrough

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    May 12, 2024 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Grainy lip balms / blooming issue / HELP!

    Yeah, I hear you… I have always done that also. And the supplier I was buying from is the largest supplier in my country, and always came with COA. I have changed a few times in my efforts to try work out what’s wrong… at this stage I am starting to think maybe it simply is the actual raw ingredient (either the Shea or the Mango Butter) and it’s nothing to do with my processes.

    But then I get confused by reading online that even if you receive grainy butters from your supplier, you can simply “fix” them by tempering them. Which I have tried. So I’m back at square one.

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