Need help with Lotion

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I've been reading this thread and have two comments.

1) I use GSE in my body butters as a preservative and find that i got

orange oil pockets in my butters as well. They would be on the bottom

of the containers. Looks like the are heavier than the butter so the

GSE settled at the bottom.

I also noticed that the GSE only separated when the butter was

re-melted. So I could never remelt a batch and scent and pour.

2) What do you add to a cream to give it that 'powdery feel'

3) Doesn't the ethanol in your creams cause drying in the skin?

Trudie

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> I use half aloe and half distilled water and I use e-wax and stearic

acid. The e-wax is not going to thicken your lotion it will just make

the lotion " draggy " on the skin. Go to Snowdrift farms.com and look at

their lotion recipes and read about e-wax and stearic acid. I have

used aloe for years. And I have also used Phenonip for years and not a

problem

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> ~Carol~

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> Well, I use the aloe in place of water for the liquid phase for

> preservative issues.

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> Jeralyn

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[Guest guest]

Trudie,

I use a small amount of cornstarch or arrowroot powder added at the

end for a smooth " powdery " feel of my body butter. The GSE is not what

caused the problems of separation for me (in the hand cream) as I have

the first cream I ever made in the linen closet in the bathroom that's

still holding up very well and it's about 6 months old. That was a

45/55 formula (a recipe I found online) with the 55% being oil. This

is what caused me to try and reformulate my own recipe...to " flip "

that so it wouldn't be so oily.

The amount of ethanol I add is not drying at all. Grain alcohol is not

the same as rubbing alcohol in that way.

Since this thread started, I reformulated the lotion (that started

this thread) and instead of an 80/20 formula, I did a 70/30, bumped up

the e-wax a bit, did away with the extra ethanol and instead of all

aloe, I split it up with witch hazel. It's been almost 2 weeks now and

not one sign of separation! The lotion is VERY smooth and creamy.

Best,

Jeralyn

[Guest guest]

Excellent, thanks.

Trudie

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