Re: bath salts going rancid, also fragrance fading

[Guest guest]

>i use baking soda/borax/rock salt for my bath salts.

>i add almond oil, alos vit e.

>i find the scent going off very quickly, also the colour fading(i use

>fda approved food colours)

>alos, i recently found a bottle smelling rancid.

>if i am adding vit e this should not happen ?

>nat

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Hi Nat,

I can't quite work out why your bath salts would have gone rancid, unless it was

your almond oil. It has a shelf life of 6 months to a year. So could it perhaps

be getting old?

As to the colour fading - that is from using food colours I think. I never had

good luck with them either and if they are left in light they will fade very

quickly. I switched to cosmetic approved colorants and that problem stopped.

Vitamin E will help a product keep from going rancid, so perhaps you didn't use

enough? It doesn't preserve tho, so if there is any bacteria in the salts, say

like from the food colors (which may be made with water) that could be it.

And finally, the scent can fade if the salts are not kept in glass. Plastic can

leach fragrance. You didn't say if you are keeping them in glass or not, but

thought I'd toss that out in case they are in plastic. They need to be in

airtight glass containers.

I've had full cream dried milk powder go rancid very easily but I see you don't

have any in your salts.

Not sure if I've been helpful, but those are my thoughts.

Di

[Guest guest]

Di has answered most of your questions but I would like to add this.

Try adding a bit of Rosemary Extract to prolong the oil's shelf

life. It might also be advisable to let your salt mixture dry out a

bit before packaging.

HTH

Akua

http://www.sheabuttercottage.co.uk

> >i use baking soda/borax/rock salt for my bath salts.

> >i add almond oil, alos vit e.

> >i find the scent going off very quickly, also the colour fading(i

use

> >fda approved food colours)

> >alos, i recently found a bottle smelling rancid.

> >if i am adding vit e this should not happen ?

> >nat

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> Hi Nat,

> I can't quite work out why your bath salts would have gone rancid,

unless it was your almond oil. It has a shelf life of 6 months to a

year. So could it perhaps be getting old?