Instructions. Have fun! During my down time, I am reformating my products and replace harsh Ingredients with better ones. i certainly could very well be delusional, & maybe it was the Ecotin in Danicas lotion, but i am convinced theres more to it! Hi Marie, That mixture stayed a liquid for at least and hour and slowly solidify. (I think it's good to spray the whole stick blender, including the cord, with IPA. Carbomer is added slowly to water and mixed at 2500 rpms. I also love how inexpensive this ingredient is . This is the first one where I can get a bit of surface melt from running my finger across the surface of it, though, which is neat. Your work surfaces will be your stove and countertop--or, in my case--a worktable covered with a plastic tablecloth. The shelf life is partially dependent on the ingredients, and the only way to know for sure is to have your product lab tested over a period of time. Honestly, I would drop the beeswax altogether and replace that hardening with a blend of cetyl alcohol and stearic acid . Details will be found on the suppliers MSDS data sheet. 20.09.2022. . Nope, e-wax (or Polawax) is not the same thing as Cetyl Alcohol. BTMS-25 is 25% BTMS and 75% Cetearyl Alcohol. In a different heat resistance container, add phase B, and start with the glycerin. Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on June 24, 2017: Lisa, I think substituting aloe vera, floral teas, and hydrosols (I'd love to use rosewater) is wonderful! Faux waxes (waxes that are actually hydrogenated vegetable oilscheck the INCI!) The slip and absorption speed are starting to be a lot more olive oil-like rather than cetyl alcohol like, meaning the mixture is starting to absorb faster with less of a silky/powdery finish. In a recipe, we use other things like silicones, butters, liquid emulsifiers.. it's a nice touch, but not critical. Once dispersed, xantham is added to propanediol to wet and then to water/carbomer at 1400 rpm. Add essential oils und mix. Please post any observations here that youve had regarding this matter, if any..b/c im just so curious if that entire lb of c.a.s worth of lotions etc were just crap b/c they were crap, as vs. that specific variety being some waxy form of c.a.? Before we dive into the experiment, lets talk procedure. Maybe the wax part in those beads? Test it and see , hi marie! I think it's best to just balance them. BTMS is a pretty good thickener in its own right. Can cetyl alcohol be used 1 for 1 substitution for beeswax in the cream bronzer from your book? , Sadly Ive got nothing for you, but maybe another reader will . Its quite similar than Skinchakras sample in terms of look and action + far more easy to make and customize (used squeeze bottle). For starters, it is 70% water, rather than 60%. Everything that touches your ingredients (and finished body butter) needs to be germ-free. That has never happened. Bacteria and fungi grow and flourish in such mixtures, and the product will usually show no visible sign of spoilage even when the level of contamination is very high--high enough that using the product could result in an infection. Thanks, Marie! Add the jojoba oil. BTMS is a pretty good thickener in its own right. For example, Polyquaternium-10 is sometimes suggested, but it also acts as a thickening agent--so I don't know what might happen if you subbed that. If you work carefully, you won't need to spray the containers of oil and other ingredients. Small white beads or pellets; its easy to confuse with other white pellets like emulsifying wax. Things are kind of slow and average from month to month. Add rosehip seed oil and mix until incorporated. (The only other difference is there is a small amount of moisturizer in BTMS-50--I forget what it is.) Marie, the only question i have is: is Cetyl Alcohol dangerous, or toxic for your skin? The first number is always cetyl alcohol, the second is always olive oil. The CA I bought is called Cetyl Alcohol Wax Beads. I added a bag of cetyl alcohol to my DIY cupboard sometime last summer, and ever since then Ive been dabbling with it; adding a little bit to this lotion or that bar, just for a bit of fun. Spray your gloves again and put the second saucepan on the stove, and start heating both pans. If its way too little, then head in the opposite direction. When considering ratios, do we take all these other oil phase liquids into consideration? Weigh the water phase to find out how much water was lost to evaporation and use the water from the saucepan of plain distilled water (which you also heated and held) to replace water lost through evaporation. Anyways, Im rambling. They did not contain any humectant ingredients (because I didn't know about them) or any oils with special skin benefits (because I didn't know about them either). How much cetyl alcohol do I add to body butter? Cetyl alcohol is a saturated fatty alcohol derived from coconuts, with a melting point of 49C (120F), which still doesnt sound all that exciting, frankly. How often can you use it: Daily. I used 2% in an anhydrous body butter. If you needed to give a bit of body to an otherwise liquid oil serum or massage oil, this could be the way to do it. Here is a list of other additives I have not used in a final product--just experimentally that I think might be useful in formulating your own product. 2.5g Vitamin E; 2.5g Preservative Eco; 2.5g Essential Oils (Optional Fragrance) When I began making soap, I developed recipes with highly emollient propertiestriple-butter soaps with a high superfatwith my own kids' needs in mind. It's really a matter of preference. Then weigh out the sweet almond oil and fragrance oil, and stir into the melted butters and wax. Mix your oils, stearic acid, and cetyl alcohol in a microwaveable bowl. Very cool! I was using cetyl alcohol at 3% so swapped in mango butter at 5% and reduced the water. I actually dabbled in making lotions many years before I started making soap. Thank you! The cetyl alcohol amount was decreased because of the increased amount of BTMS-25. Ive been using it mixed with BTMS 50 in lotion. I apologize for all of the errors in my message above. Vitamin E- 0.5%. Place the butter (s) in the glass bowl. What is the INCI of your CA? Pour into pre-sterilized containers and allow to come to room temp before capping. The thickener (cetyl alcohol) is about 1.3% instead of 3%. Thank you Marie for such great information. How to Use Cetearyl Alcohol in Cosmetics Presenting as white to off-white flakes, this oil soluble ingredient usage rates depend on the product. Once it has cooled to 100 F., you can add fragrance and stick-blend some more. Sterilization: Please ensure all equipment, containers, and utensils have been disinfected with 91% IPA before you begin. One bit of valuable information the New Directions Aromatics website provides is the Absorption rates of various oils. Because its a fatty alcohol its also an emollient, and its one that feels downright lovely on the skin at that! I have both BTMS 50 and 25 on my hands. That's one good reason to use it in a body butter, since most people seem to dislike a product that feels greasy. CA also has such a low melting point (49C) that it seems unlikely you wouldnt have melted it properly, otherwise your e-wax likely wouldnt have melted either. 3% BTMS to 1.5% Cetyl / Behenyl alcohol. Below, we go over common ingredients and what properties they add. I love this Thank you so much for sharing, Karen! Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on August 01, 2020: There is no need to be concerned about the pH of body butters or lotions, as they are comprised primarily of water and oils/butters. Running my finger over the surface quickly starts to melt the mixture and results in some lovely, silky slip. Each part is a single gram, so 3:1 is 3 grams cetyl alcohol, 1 gram olive oil. Combine and heat Phase B ingredients to 176F and remove from heat. If you are new to making lotions and body butters, your first question will be, "What exactly are these ingredients Emmajane speaks of?". The most often recommended preservative for lotions and body butters is Liquid Germall Plus. Gently stir the oils and waxes to combine. Cetyl Alcohol. You could use lard or tallow, but what people usually use in lotions and body butters is mango butter, cocoa butter, or shea butter. After Water Phase ingredients have been held for the appropriate temp/time, weigh the pan and add enough of the distilled water that you heated and held separately to bring it back up to its original weight. Although acceptable at 0.5 to 10%, it is typically used at <1.5% in facial emulsionshigher percentages can feel too hydrating, as if you are almost sweating. Appearance. When all of phase B is melted stop heating and add the water phase to the oil phase under stirring. Cetyl alcohol = thickener. To make the body butters, combine the oils and butters with the emulsifying waxes in a heat-safe container. It's good to balance slow-absorbing oils with fast-absorbing oils (about equal amounts of each). 2. HI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE DETAILS, I WAS TRYING TO FORMULATE A CREAM , IN OIL PHASE 2GRAMS CETYL ALCOHOL, 8GRAMS OLIVE OIL AND E-WAX 4 GRAMS AND KOJIC DIPALMITATE, WHAT I FOUND IS THE CETYL ALCOHOL IS NOT MELTING FULLY SOME CRYSTAL LIKE PARTICALS ARE THERE EVEN WITH 85C TEMPERATURE, CAN YOU ADVISE Add Isopropyl Myristate and mix until incorporated. I just purchased my first bag of cetyl alcohol. Cetearyl Alcohol: any fatty alcohol will work (e.g. That clump is surprisingly soft when I pick it up given how firm the mixture was in the dish on its own. Now you can transfer the body butter to jars. Odd! Process. 1:1 ratio of fractionated coconut oil and cetyl alcohol, plus a tiny bit of amber paste from Kuumba Made (very potent and lovely scent). Don't use with: Cetearyl alcohol is safe to use with most other ingredients, but it can be comedogenic when used in . Wow I cant believe this came up when Searched it! For example, Honeyquat and DL-Panthenolare heat-sensitive and so must be added to the cool-down phase, but sodium lactate is water-soluble and not heat sensitive and so goes into the water phase. Too much could make your product too thick. You may also need to cut the BTMS amount in half. My hair loved it and am actually able to go a full day and a half without washing my hair before it begins to look like rubbish. I did a search of the swiftcraftymonkey blog, on using milk in lotions, and could find no recipes using milk. It's a white, waxy mixture of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol, both fatty alcohols. In order to answer that question youd need to know a lot more about what was in the soup! Soothing Creamy Facial Cleanser. Use at 5% - 10% in your "water in oil" or "oil . I love reading these! Also would balms/salves benefit from using this as part of the beeswax? You will want to use your disinfected rubber scraper to scrape the sides of the pan into the middle, to help mix everything evenly. But have been using Ectoin several times in lotions already and never anything happened. So, this is all very odd. Finally I wanna try it. (I don't know if this really comes out cheaper or not.). Mica colors were added to tint these. The finish on the skin is beautiful; smooth and a bit silicone-y. Since I cant get any suspension bases here. It contains a higher percentage of BTMS, 2. Mix thoroughly to ensure the cool down ingredients are fully incorporated into your body cream. Its an emollient and it thickens/hardens without the weight or tackiness of wax. Just bought some finally, last week. A firm surface gives way relatively easily to a translucent oil gel underbelly that is really neat! Whole Elise. What does cetyl alcohol do to your skin? As I already mentioned lotions and body butters are germ-magnets, in which it is essential to include a preservative. Now spray your stick blender and utensils (spoons, knives, soup ladle, rubber scrapers) and set them on the work surface. My GMP makes me a nervous wreck as it is--but I really must try this in the future. 100g Mango Butter; 37.5g Cocoa Butter; 12.5g Cetyl Alcohol; Cool Down 1. Im one of those rare people who cant enjoy all the coconut goodness. I know its a lot to ask of you, some diagnosis like that, but maybe you have an idea. Yay! Thank you for another great post! Dec 30, 2010. In the list at the end of this article, I have given the absorption rates of most of the oils listed. Once mixed in, add the balance of Phase A ingredients with stirring. Give it a cursory glance and it looks like white dustteensy little moderately glossy blobs and specks of nothing all too exciting. I would probably start with a 1:1 to give you an idea of which direction to take the experiment. Partially fill a saucepan with water (about 1/4 the way full). So if your oil phase is 15% or your lotion, the e-wax should be at 3.75%. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Make it Up: The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care is now available at booksellers all over the world! to me actually it looked like smallish pieces of plastic. The e-wax (or Polawax) is an emulsifier which keeps the oil and water in formulations from separating, while Cetyl Alcohol thickens your formulation. The slip is good (especially if youre used to working with waxthere actually is slip, not skid!). Spray each jar and lid with IPA and wipe with paper towels. Leave both butters for some 12-24 hours in the fridge. I would guess that the shelf-life is 6-12 months. This one is definitely translucent, and has a bit of a crystallized appearance to it, which is neat. You will however need to keep a minimum of 2% cetyl alcohol, together with 0.4% xanthan gum in your formula for stability. I did not have the DL panthenol on me so I omitted this. Water, of course, has a neutral pH. Taken altogether, these amounts of cetyl alcohol and BTMS-25 would make an overly thick body butter (in that you'd have a hard time stick-blending it), but it is softened by the addition of sodium lactate. It can crystallize and/or settle out in thinner anhydrous products. These were simple preparations of my own invention, which were just oil-and-water emulsions, using liquid lecithin as the emulsifier. Is the BTMS unnecessary when using cetyl alcohol? Cetyl alcohol is very safe and washes off fine with soap or some sort of foaming cleanser. Once fully melted, heat for 20 . As a rule, shoot for your e-wax being 25% of your oil phase. Safety Information. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. What I did was just increase the amount some. If you don't correct for water lost through evaporation, additives, fragrance, and the preservative will be present in the finished product in percentages that may be too high. Luckily, there is no need to get out the autoclave. Thank you very much! With all body butter and lotion recipes, the tweaking possibilities are endless! The key difference between cetyl alcohol and cetearyl alcohol is that cetyl alcohol is a single chemical compound, whereas cetearyl alcohol is a mixture of chemical compounds.. Cetyl alcohol and cetearyl alcohol have different chemical and physical properties and different applications. Slight acidity is generally viewed as beneficial in skin-care products. As you stir, add in the oil until both ingredients are fully integrated into each other. Ingredient Function: Emulsion stabilizer and opacifier. It's a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Perhaps I should do this experiment with different % in lotions. I use 5% beeswax in my emulsifying sugar scrubs and I dont like the waxy feel on my skin after using it. I am assuming that you replaced the cetyl alcohol with an equal amount of stearic acid. Sample 5: 10% oil, 15% butter, 5% wax and 5% Montanov 202. Youll need lightweight thickening/hardening with lots of slip. Can Cetyl Alcohol be used to thicken Hair Oils? Then place a glass (or metal) bowl on top of the saucepan. Daniel Liden. 2% Essential Oil. Someday I will have that kind of money! Its a strong thickener without the weight and tack of waxes. My lotion had solidify in minutes of combining the water and oil phase. How to manitne that PH level? Mix the water and glycerin in the other pan. 2% Fragrance oil. It melts at 50C (122F), which is slightly higher than cetyl alcohol ( 49.3C [120.7F]) and lower than stearic acid ( 69.3C [156.7F] ). This is an awesome collection of information with a done for me recipe. Haircare Skincare Formulas. It also gives the nice silky finish to the lotion as compared to steraic acid that gives a rich-thick feeling. Time to update myself. Want to help support Humblebee & Me? Cetyl Alcohol has skin benefits in its own right, and 3. Cetyl alcohol is a hybrid of alcohols and fatty acids or oils and . Theres great slip as I massage a bit into my arm, but it does seem like the slip is reducing in comparison to 1:2interesting. If you wish to use 0.3%, use 9 grams.). Here's what the additives I've chosen do: Recommended Usage Rate: 1% - 30% to add body and viscosity to cremes & lotions. I used cetyl at 4% and olivem 1000 at 5% last night. BTMS 50 = emulsifier. Don't forget to weigh the pan of water-phase ingredients before heating (make a note of the weight), and to heat and hold a few ounces of distilled water in a separate pan. So, the very basic whipped body butter formula is this: 40-70% Butter. D-L Panthenol, aka Pro-Vitamin B5, is a stable lit racemic mixture of D-Panthenol and L-Panthenol. I swear youll be stoked about it by the end of this post, though! Use between 2% and 6% of total ingredients for emulsifying the oil and water phazes of creams and lotions. Chamomile Body Butter Misadventures Part 4. Dont make me wait til the end of the month! cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol etc.) I like to understand why I use certain ingredients and how safe they are and your information is just what I look for. These specific ones are from a Canadian kitchen supply shop, so unless you live in Toronto thats not much help, but glass prep cups are widely available and super useful! This website participates in the Formula Botanica, Baraka Shea Butter, TKB Trading, and Amazon affiliate programs; as an Amazon Associate, Humblebee & Me earns from qualifying purchases. If you were using urea in a skin-care product--and urea is actually quite a good addition, IMHO--it might be good to test the pH of the product and perhaps include an additive to reduce it. You can use ordinary canola oil, sunflower oil, or olive oil from the grocery store, or fancier oils from the health-food store, such as hemp oil or grapeseed oil. Since few of us can afford to do that, we use a preservative and use GMP with great care. I love these posts! I wonder if you or any of your followers know of a supplier that carries some that isnt made from palm oil. Usage rate. Have a great day! If you use BTMS-50, my guess is that you should use the amount shown in the recipe, though the body butter may come out a bit thicker. THANKS. Perhaps for some of it, but not all; its quite thin and powdery, and we want our lipsticks to be at least a little bit thick and creamy so the colour applies well and stays put. This can be done by melting 1 Cetyl Alcohol pellet in 1 ml of a preferred Carrier Oil and applying a dime-size amount of this blend to a small area of skin that is not sensitive. Because I had access to so much great information, I was able to make a really great body butter that my daughter says is the best she's ever used. The size of your oil phase will also be a factor, but you havent listed that. The feel is slightly lighter than the methyl glucose sesquistearate so I am thinking I will try this emulsifier for face creams as well. Thank you! Im afraid Ive never worked with it as a standalone ingredient so Im not really sure; Im only familiar with it as an ingredient in emulsifying waxes. Make it Up: The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care is now available at booksellers all over the world! Depending on the formulation it can be a lot more complex than that, especially if its an emulsion and different phase sizes and emulsifier types are also at play. Excellent experiment Marie! And helpful! Will cetyl alcohol help?? I melt the hard oils, let them cool, and then add the liquid oils. Now move the other saucepan to the scale and weigh out the oils without letting the containers touch the pan or disinfected work surface. Ive been using cetyl alcohol but didnt realize just how awesome this product is. Marie, Coconut Massage Butter. Start small, take notes! Ive found wax in lotions (especially lighter ones) tends to create a tacky end product thats rather disappointing. "Fatty alcohols are often found in cleansing lotions and moisturizers as thickeners and emulsifiers," says . I weighed the ingredients into individual glass dishes, placed each dish in a hot water bath to melt everything through, and swirled to combine before leaving the dishes to set up for about two hours before beginning the poking and prodding. There could possibly be a need to adjust the pH of a body butter or other skin-care product, if you decided to include a pH-sensitive ingredient. Question: Can you use milk in your body butter recipe? Stored somewhere cool, dark, and dry, cetyl alcohol should last at least two years. Answer: If your recipe doesn't contain water and is just a mixture of butters and oils, you do not need a preservative. So, in order to help with those questions (and why I typically say no, there is no good substitution), I wanted to do one of my quick guides using cetyl alcohol. Can you add a bit of cetyl alcohol to a salve (only waxes and oils)? I can scrape up larger flakes (almost curls) with my finger nail. Using a blender and/or using more emulsifying wax aren't the only ways to help achieve a more stable emulsion. Add the stearic acid. Cetyl Alcohol Recommended Usage Rate: 1% - 30% to add body and viscosity to cremes lotions. . Add mango butter, kokum butter and cetyl alcohol to a heat safe container and melt in a double boiler. Find everything you need to make lotion here. Many thanks. Taken altogether, these amounts of cetyl alcohol and BTMS-25 would make an overly thick body butter (in that you'd have a hard time stick-blending it), but it is softened by the addition of sodium lactate. At first I wasn't sure I liked it, but now I think it's an improvement. Aww no! What do you think of having some stearic acid to replace some of the beeswax for its higher melting point and also add some cetyl alcohol for its slip property? i know i should bug the beauty brains about this & i promise i will if theres any there there. 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