KimHartley24
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Hello!
I am not new to lotionmaking, having researched it off and on for a few years now (in hopes of one day being out of my hubby's grad school debt) so I think I have a pretty good understanding of the basics: preservatives are necessary unless used within 24 hours, beeswax is not a primary emulsifier, vitamin e MAY prevent oil from oxidizing but is not a preservative, etc.
What I am lacking in is practical experience, this works, this doesn't, this specific product is mixed with this one at this temperature, this one can only do O/W, this one W/O, etc.
I wanted to get that all out of the way because I've tried to find my answer through searching on the forum but it's hard to find the information among all the pages of people trying to convince the OP that preservatives are necessary and other people hijacking the thread in order to say they aren't, and then the original question not getting answered. (AKA: I know that preservatives are necessary unless used within 24 hours.)
MY original question is:
Using a very low percentage of coconut oil and cocoa butter, and e-wax at 5% of total weight, can I make a watery, milk-like emulsion that wont separate in 24 hours?
It will be frozen in single use-blocks and a fresh block will be unfrozen every day (or twice a day, depending) and used to dampen wash cloths for wiping a baby butt. I could just use plain water, like many do, but I thought it might be nice to add a little softness to the water.
Here's my thought:
Water
Smeedge of oil (will play with percentages until it interacts with washcloth well)
5% e-wax
scant few drops of tea tree essential oil (Maybe. May leave this off)
This post is too long The extremely short of it is: does e-wax require a minimum ratio of oil to water in order to create a semi-stable watery emulsion?
THANKS! Kim
I am not new to lotionmaking, having researched it off and on for a few years now (in hopes of one day being out of my hubby's grad school debt) so I think I have a pretty good understanding of the basics: preservatives are necessary unless used within 24 hours, beeswax is not a primary emulsifier, vitamin e MAY prevent oil from oxidizing but is not a preservative, etc.
What I am lacking in is practical experience, this works, this doesn't, this specific product is mixed with this one at this temperature, this one can only do O/W, this one W/O, etc.
I wanted to get that all out of the way because I've tried to find my answer through searching on the forum but it's hard to find the information among all the pages of people trying to convince the OP that preservatives are necessary and other people hijacking the thread in order to say they aren't, and then the original question not getting answered. (AKA: I know that preservatives are necessary unless used within 24 hours.)
MY original question is:
Using a very low percentage of coconut oil and cocoa butter, and e-wax at 5% of total weight, can I make a watery, milk-like emulsion that wont separate in 24 hours?
It will be frozen in single use-blocks and a fresh block will be unfrozen every day (or twice a day, depending) and used to dampen wash cloths for wiping a baby butt. I could just use plain water, like many do, but I thought it might be nice to add a little softness to the water.
Here's my thought:
Water
Smeedge of oil (will play with percentages until it interacts with washcloth well)
5% e-wax
scant few drops of tea tree essential oil (Maybe. May leave this off)
This post is too long The extremely short of it is: does e-wax require a minimum ratio of oil to water in order to create a semi-stable watery emulsion?
THANKS! Kim