throughthebarricades
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Hi,
I've been trying to write a recipe for a cream/thick lotion. I checked out Swift's blog and she suggests that for e-wax "you are going to use your emulsifier at 25% of the oils + butters amount. So if you are using 20% oils + butters, you're going to use 5% emulsifier".
My problem is that I want to use a higher % of oils and butters than 20% (my oil phase is already at 34%), and so the 25% of oils and butters logic puts my emulsifier at 8.5%. The emulsifier I want to use (glyceryl stearate and PEG 100 stearate) says the recommended usage is 1-5%.
So basically what I am asking is:
How do you know how much emulsifier to use? Does it have to be based on the % of ingredients in the oil phase? Does it differ depending which emulsifier you use?
Here's a link to the emulsifier I am talking about, if that helps: http://www.lotioncrafter.com/lotionpro-165.html
Any help would be appreciated
I've been trying to write a recipe for a cream/thick lotion. I checked out Swift's blog and she suggests that for e-wax "you are going to use your emulsifier at 25% of the oils + butters amount. So if you are using 20% oils + butters, you're going to use 5% emulsifier".
My problem is that I want to use a higher % of oils and butters than 20% (my oil phase is already at 34%), and so the 25% of oils and butters logic puts my emulsifier at 8.5%. The emulsifier I want to use (glyceryl stearate and PEG 100 stearate) says the recommended usage is 1-5%.
So basically what I am asking is:
How do you know how much emulsifier to use? Does it have to be based on the % of ingredients in the oil phase? Does it differ depending which emulsifier you use?
Here's a link to the emulsifier I am talking about, if that helps: http://www.lotioncrafter.com/lotionpro-165.html
Any help would be appreciated