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3% tea tree oil is too high for the face, it may cause irritation at this rate.

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While I am on the subject of skin. I always associated nonionic emulsifiers to be milder on damaged skin than anionic. Is this something I imagined or is there a real difference?

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Thanks all, I do use more humectants than glycerine, it is just the stripped down version for skinfeel that I removed them for testing. I agree the choice of emulsifier isn’t ideal. The reason I wanted to stay with Olivem1000 is because in this particular case the skin reacted really well to it, and it is a tricky case of eczema. This isn’t a cream I’m working for mass market, but for an individual. I have tested with Montanov68+SSC since I posted and it feels better than Olivem for sure. I will see how the skin reacts to Montanov, I imagine it is gentle enough? Key criteria is for it to be super gentle and little chance of irritation as possible. That’s why I’m happy to accept soapiness for example.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I don’t have access to 1,2 hexanediol to try it out.

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Thanks, seems like I was focusing on the wrong thing.

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Sure. It happens in all sorts of combinations but this is my latest test that had this happen:

Oil:

8.5 sunflower oil

4 shea

6 CCT

1.5 cetearyl alcohol

3.5 montanov 68

1.5 glyceryl stearate citrate

Water:

3% glycerine

Rest water + 1% preservative

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What do you mean by “all-oil”? an anhydrous product, like a body oil/butter?

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Thank you, a lot of inaccurate marketing info out there.

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Thank you, much appreciated.

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Thanks, that wide pH range did seem very suspicious.

The other two I have are:

1. sodium benzoate + potassium sorbate, which I like generally, but they too seem not ideal for 3.6pH.

2. phenoxyethanol + ethylhexylglycerin which is my fallback option.

Do you have any suggestions for any others I should consider?