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  • Hardness of Lip Balm at 10 degree c.

    Posted by Shubh123 on September 14, 2022 at 6:27 am

    Hello Everyone,
    I am formulating Lip Balm. It is stable at 45 degree c and room temperature. but at lower temperature it becomes so hard that we need to pressurize the balm to get payoff . Also it looses shine and becomes dry. Please suggest what should I try to solve this issue. Please see the below formulation -
    1. Castor Oil -34.9 %
    2. Olive Oil  - 27.4 %
    3. Shea Butter - 15 %
    4. Candellila Wax - 5%
    5. Olivem 900 - 3%
    6. Dextrin Palmitate - 4%
    7. Oleoflex FG 100 - 2%
    8.Cetostearyl Alcohol - 3 %
    9. Sunflower Wax - 3 %
    10. Tinogard TT - 0.2 %
    11. Hydrolyzed Oat Protein (and) - 1 %
    Cetearyl Alcohol (and)
    Glyceryl Oleate (and)
    Glyceryl Stearate
    12. Active - 0.5
    13. Strawberry Flavour - 1%
    14. Uva Ursi Extract - 0.5 %
    15. Greentea Extract - 0.5 %

    Shubh123 replied 1 year, 5 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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  • ketchito

    Member
    September 14, 2022 at 11:27 am

    @Shubh123 If you want ro reduce hardness, you could try lowering your candelilla wax and increase one of your liquid oils a bit.

  • Shubh123

    Member
    September 14, 2022 at 11:30 am

    @ketchito Thanks for the suggestion. I will try.

  • Richard

    Member
    September 15, 2022 at 6:47 am

    Agree. There is a high solid content for it to be softish at low temperatures.

  • Shubh123

    Member
    September 30, 2022 at 6:00 am

    @ketchito I tried by reducing wax. It is now fine at lower temperature but then loosing viscosity at 40 degree.

  • ketchito

    Member
    September 30, 2022 at 12:04 pm

    @Shubh123 You nees to fine tune, since all waxes have different melting points. Which wax did you reduce? 

  • Shubh123

    Member
    October 6, 2022 at 6:56 am

    @ketchito I have reduce candellila wax from 5% to 3% and Sunflower wax from 3% to 2%.

  • michaelpolymer

    Member
    October 11, 2022 at 1:10 am

    try to lower the caster oil and increase the olive oil.

  • Shubh123

    Member
    October 12, 2022 at 11:02 am

    @michaelpolymer Sure. I will try and let you know. Thank you.

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