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That’s what I meant, that Mr Bekas rubbish!
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Would not the citric acid be sufficient?
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Papaya extract (papain) will dissolve dead skin. Recommended limit is 0.5%
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Maybe the manufacturers who make the BPA paper have paid more congressmen than the hand sanitizer people?
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I find that 0.5% sodium benzoate or potassium sorbate work just fine.
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For me, an appropriate sensorial profile can be gained by choosing lipids from an appropriate position on an imaginary scale. The scale begins on the left side with capric/caprylic triglycerides and squalene, moving through various esters and oils and then butters and finally waxes as the product becomes heavier, greasier, and slower to absorb.
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For me, a “night lotion” is one that would be oily, because it can be left on and without make-up. Jojoba should be fine for what you want. I don’t know about the other one.
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Me neither.
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The sodium lactate may be involved in a replacement reaction producing sodium citrate.
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Vitamin E and keep it in the refri.
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I think monolaurin is better. That’s what I use.
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Coconut is a type of palm, no more use fundamentally than the oil palm.
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The first thing I told my students on entering the lab for the first time was “NEVER taste a chemical ingredient.” The previous incumbent had certainly obtained some deadly stuff, including 50% hydrofluoric acid, which I promptly organised to be collected safely. The first lab I worked in - I was 17 - was a physics lab and it was stocked with items such as chromic acid and potassium cyanide (1Kg of powder.)
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Thanks for the kind comments. Liquid soap dominates my market; I can’t compete with synthetic liquid soap that sells for a dollar equivalent, complete with pump bottle. It costs me a dollar for the bottle and label alone.
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Regarding price, you should be able to do as well as us. We buy 25 Kg containers of palm oil from a large local cooking fat producer, we buy high-oleic safflower oil from Costco which replaces more expensive olive oil, and we buy coconut oil in 20Kg drums from an outlet of KemCare, a UK based multinational with a presence here. The other main cost is the fragrance. About 4$ plus labour, manufacturing cost per kilogram.
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Red Berries soap.
Mint soap.We make about 8 different types of cold process soap including an exfoliant bar with bentonite clay. Planning to add goat’s milk soap shortly. It is not a big market for us, even though we are the lowest priced producer, but the colours and aromas attract customers who go on to buy other things. -
a pound of soap for $10? That’s $22 per kilo. Good grief.
I prepare 2Kg per batch of cold process soap and sell it at a profit at $30 per kilo retail! The cost of oils and NaOH and fragrance will be around $3.50 per kilo. You’re sure of your prices? You seem to be paying way too much. -
Melt and pour, to me, has always been those glycerin concoctions which look pretty but don’t actually function.
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Unlikely to be possible.
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Remove the alcohol extracts and see what happens.
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Do your research with Google and on soap forums and you will discover what melt and pour is and how it is made.
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Lush sells cold process soap as far as I know. You can see they are using rapeseed oil (it will be high oleic and standing in for olive oil) and coconut oil with NaOH. Everything after that on the list is <1%
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Probably. Try it and see.
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Nitana, I think you mean ‘dispersed’ not dissolved. I can’t imagine being able to do that without some serious machinery.
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Oh I don’t know about that, Bob. I should think that conc sulphuric would dissolve it. . .