niecie2k
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Ahhhh, ok….I actually learned something new and I really appreciate that. That’s what I come here for so thank you! I had no idea that this is why magnesium hydoxide was used. I’ve only heard that it “combats odor”, but nothing as well explained as what you’ve provided. I actually made the deodorant again sans the preservative and the magnesium hydroxide. As far as the glyceryl stearate, I left it in because I want to make sure the glycerin and lactic which are both water soluble, don’t precipitate out of the stick. As far as PH, yes, the lactic on my underarms, hopefully will have the effect I want. I’ve actually had it on all day and I’m still fresh as a daisy with no irritation so I think I’m good.
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I understand what you are saying and thank you for your thorough explanations and time. Yes, I actually have a spreadsheet with all my hundreds of ingredients and their PH is included in the information but I figured that no matter what the PH of all my ingredients combined was, the lactic would bring the final PH down. Anyway, as far as the graininess, I was thinking that something was crystalizing or something was causing crystallization as none of my ingredients by themselves are grainy. I like your theme concept but when one is not a chemist and just does this for hobby and to learn so that perhaps one day I can become a chemist, the matching ingredients to a theme is not so simple when one doesn’t have a more advanced scientific mindset. I will take all of your very thoughtful advice to account and make some more tests. Again, thank you.
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Ahhh interesting. Magnesium & Lactic huh? Can u elaborate? I’d love to learn more. I use the magnesium to combat odor & the Lactic for PH. Are you saying that the magnesium will keep the PH low just as tge lactic does? I use the glyceryl stearate because I was duping sure clinical solid deodorant and they use it. Actually most solid deodorants use it and they don’t use water. Finally, would you know why my final product was grainy? Thank you so much.
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Rice curl complex is sold by formulator sample shop. The INCI is Water & Lactobacillus/Tomato Fruit Ferment Extract & Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract & Keratin Amino Acids & Acyl Coenzyme A Desaturase and it’s probably incompatible as well. What am I trying to achieve? A gel for my very fine curly (often frizzy) hair. Something that will GRAB the curls and help them keep in the curl pattern, rather than frizzing up. The PVP helps with that and is an excellent addition to the gel. I figured that the cetrimonium chloride was incompatible judging from how it thinned out with the tiniest amount added. I wonder if its the same deal with the polyquat 7 as I really need those to balance out the charges in my hair. As a hobby formulator, I look at what the professional brands use in trying to formulate my own and several use both PG and propanediol.
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I will try that. I usually only adjust until it thickens. A PH of about 6 does that. I have waited for it to Thicke to then add the cationics, just a tiny bit, but it immediately goes thin. As you can see, I have tried this many many times, many, many ways.
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Thank you. I will try it with HEC although I haven’t had much luck with it in the past with hair gels. It has always separated on me.
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Two terrific answers. Thank you!!! So - my reason for adding oil is that it helps keep frizz away, smoothing and moisturizing my fine, frizzy hair. The reason I wanted to add Polyquat 7 is to balance out the charges in my hair. I did subsequently reduce the polyquat to 1% from 2% and I got a lot less of the “gunk”. Thank you both again, for taking the time to answer.
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Thank you for your helpful comment. I did use quite a bit of beeswax, caranauba wax, cetyl alcohol and lauryl laurate - all of which are solid at room temperature. It was only 1 gram of jojoba and 1.5 grams of hard butter added to this that got it to work so I’m thinking it is something in those 2 ingredients in particular that reacted with the other ingredients and hardened it up.
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Thank you so much!! I actually made a change that worked beautifully. I added jojoba wax! I remelted the stick’s I’d made (there were 3) and I added 1 gram of jojoba wax and 1.5 grams of capacu butter. I had heard that jojoba wax strengthens sticks and capacu butter is very hard. I could not believe how quickly they set up and stayed hard. I am THRILLED and thank you so very much for your help. I truly appreciate it. :o)
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Thank you for your comment. The issue with checking out other formulas is that they’re using ingredients that I am not - and that will change everything in the formula as you know so it’s very hard to compare. I just know there’s something I’m doing that’s impeding the stick to harden and set up and I don’t know what it is. So frustrating! Thank you again so much for taking the time to comment.
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Thank you so much for your response. I actually ended up making a very hard balm and set it into a deodorant tube, yes, using emulsifier and it worked out great. A little dry, but I can make some adjustments next time. Thanks again for responding. I really appreciate it.
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I had this problem before and I just had it again. I got so frustrated I went ahead and tasted every ingredient in my lipstick. It is, without a doubt, the PEG 6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides. That is the culprit!
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I have a burning question. I CONSTANTLY find myself looking for substitutions because, let’s face it, who has an entire stock of supplies in their kitchenr! I am so tired of, “I can’t make this because i don’t have that and I don’t know what ‘that’ is so how can I replace it”. My question is, is there somewhere that formulators can go to find potential SUBSTITUTIONS? I find that even if i can sort of figure out what the item i’m looking for a substitution for is, that still doesn’t help me much for figuring out a substitution because there are so many variables; and those inci names with 2, 3 and 4 items put together - how does one figure out how to replace them? It’s very frustrating and extremely discouraging.
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Interesting. I currently have a lot of about 27 lipsticks which I am about to toss because they taste God awful and I have no idea how to fix. The ingredients are below. Any ideas?
CASTOR OIL COCONUT OIL MANGO BUTT CC TRIGLY BEESWAX CARANUBA WAX MICA TIT DIOX IRON OXIDE MAG STEARATE CARMINE MICA SPARKLE VIT e ESS OIL