At first I thought I wouldnt be able to dent it with my finger, but then my thumb popped through the harder surface layer and I was able to smear the mixture around a bit. Dont make me wait til the end of the month! Sterilization: Please ensure all equipment, containers, and utensils have been disinfected with 91% IPA before you begin. Add rosehip seed oil and mix until incorporated. Can this be used as a substitute for beeswax in lipstick making? Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. These are my finished body butters, packaged and labeled. Question: Do I need Germall Plus in my whipped butter mix? I love this Thank you so much for sharing, Karen! Mix your oils, stearic acid, and cetyl alcohol in a microwaveable bowl. Anywho I ordered some cetyl alcohol and made your Lemon Chiffon Body and Hand Lotion. I was using cetyl alcohol at 3% so swapped in mango butter at 5% and reduced the water. Store at below 77. It should just be cetyl alcohol. For nearly 30 years, a Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) expert scientific panel has stated that cetyl alcohol is safe for use as cosmetic ingredients. Cetearyl Alcohol use is one of the things coming under the spotlight thanks to the 'Palm Free' movement. Now move the other saucepan to the scale and weigh out the oils without letting the containers touch the pan or disinfected work surface. In a different heat-resistant beaker, add the distilled water. My current recipes is 5% Emulsifying Wax and 3% Beeswax, and Ive used that recipe for months. Even with a preservative and careful preparation, this stuff still has a shelf life. 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. This is an awesome collection of information with a done for me recipe. Combine and heat Phase B ingredients to 176F and remove from heat. Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on December 31, 2017: Mary, I may have mentioned this in the article, but I was told by someone very knowledgeable that the best things to combat dry skin are oils that contain gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). Nothe entire base would have to be re-developed to use cetyl alcohol and I suspect it would negatively impact the application and adhesion as it would create a thinner, slicker final product. Heat the cetyl alcohol to 60c - 70c within the oil stage of your formulations. Since I cant get any suspension bases here. thanks. Ensure the ceteryl alcohol is fully dissolved into your oil stage (use agitation if required) in order to minimise the risk of graininess in your final formulation. cocoa butter is also drier, a harder butter it is not too greasy. If you can get 100200g thatll last you quite a while. Then, for the sake of science, I tried one. Youll need lightweight thickening/hardening with lots of slip. Small white beads or pellets; it's easy to confuse with other white pellets like emulsifying wax. Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on December 21, 2017: Thank You!!! During my down time, I am reformating my products and replace harsh Ingredients with better ones. mango will give you a drier texture and won't be as greasy. You can put them all in a box with a date on it, or you could save a dated file on your computer. The surface is still firm, but once I press through its clear theres a harder layer on top and the underbits and soft and a bit gooey. In a small container, add the glycerin. Add the cetyl alcohol. Since few of us can afford to do that, we use a preservative and use GMP with great care. In order to answer that question youd need to know a lot more about what was in the soup! I love it! My thinking was that both offer different (though slight) properties. Organic cocoa butter 9.0%; Organic sweet almond oil 45.0%; Phase C. Preservative 1.0%; Procedure: Heat Phase A and B separately in a water bath. Add water & oil phase ingredients into their own containers. What a difference! It offers the most wonderful slip and finish, even in high concentrationsits the complete opposite of wax in that regard, Its quite a powerful thickener, though definitely not as strong as the waxes; Im ok with that as its still nice in high concentrations, so I can use lots of it and get the same level of thickening/hardening that Id get from wax without the awful texture side effects, Itll create oil-gel-ish concoctions at 1:3+. (I think it's good to spray the whole stick blender, including the cord, with IPA. The mixture will start out thin but will be quite thick once it's cooled to 100 F. Now weigh out your fragrance and Liquid Germall Plus in disinfected containers, add them to the mixture, and stick blend the heck out of it. . Please read the Substitutions list in the post. I want my body butter to come out creamy, I do not want it to harden after it sits, I can use ewax with the oils to make it thick and creamy, I don't want to use water in my body butter. Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on June 21, 2017: This is the first time I've heard of mango butter. This one is definitely translucent, and has a bit of a crystallized appearance to it, which is neat. This cleanser is very generally a lotion with added surfactants; using cetearyl alcohol as one of the emollients helps add body and richness while keeping costs down. These shavings disappear into my skin when I massage them in, but in a rather odd way. Have you ever used it in a body butter? Two of my daughters have very dry skin. Results can sometimes be not quite what you expected even when you use the Cheat Sheet. From here on out, you stick blend the mixture every ten or fifteen minutes while it cools. I read somewhere that you can use cetyl alcohol or stearic acid in body butters to help with the over texture and melt point. Compare their appearance, texture and skin feel after another 24-48 hours. 0.5-1% Vitamin E. 29%59.5% Carrier oil. The first number is always cetyl alcohol, the second is always olive oil. emulsifying, thickening properties of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol. It may be tempting to skip this step, but I strongly encourage you to do this . Wow I cant believe this came up when Searched it! Happy making! 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 think it's best to just balance them. Thank you! Add the shea butter. 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! 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. My GMP makes me a nervous wreck as it is--but I really must try this in the future. It can be a co-emulsifier when used at 2%. it's a nice touch, but not critical. Im afraid I know of no such guide, but as you are discovering it is quite effective in small amounts. Fortunately, I finally learned how to make a good body butter using really great ingredients by frequenting the soap and skin-care groups on Facebook, as well as by researching the properties of specialized oils and other ingredients on my own. Hi Marie, I use myrica fruit wax and when its in the process of cooling, it crystalizes a bit. Excellent experiment Marie! Marie have you tried cetyl alcohol in body/shave soap? Ingredient Function: Emulsion stabilizer and opacifier. Thanks Marie my mentor ! 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. Some prefer a body butters that are oil-in-water emulsions. What I did was just increase the amount some. 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. Scrape sides of bowl using a spatula. Cetearyl alcohol is most commonly made from vegetable oils, usually coconut, palm, corn or soy. I would probably start with a 1:1 to give you an idea of which direction to take the experiment. Luckily, there is no need to get out the autoclave. Thanks. love your recipes and your ideas, your book and also your dog, she is sooo sweet! This recipe also includes quite a few somewhat expensive ingredients, so it is really intended for people who plan on selling their product and can hence buy ingredients in bulk. Thank you! Add the stearic acid. Our Natural Deodorant Base: Cetyl Alcohol, Candelilla Wax, Tapioca Starch. Shown below is the famous lotion and body butter cheat sheet, which gives ingredient ratios for making several skin-care products. Want to help support Humblebee & Me? If you are a math nerd, you will notice that this recipe doesn't conform very closely to the ingredient proportions shown on the Cheat Sheet. So, the very basic whipped body butter formula is this: 40-70% Butter. Super helpful blog post, thanks! Heat Phase A to 176F and hold while Phase B is heating. Do you believe it can be a substitute to beeswax on a deodorant recipe? Basically I guess I'm saying I don't know if stearic acid is the culprit. Now you can transfer the body butter to jars. 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. BTMS is a pretty good thickener in its own right. I wonder how cetyl alcohol and stearic acid feel or work differently on skin? Print this page. When you're ready to cap the jars, spray your gloves with IPA again, and use a paper towel sprayed with IPA to clean up the jar rims and threads. Heat Water Phase ingredients to 165 F. and hold for 20 minutes. Taken for granted until that point where it gets taken away. Replaces the above 2 products. One bit of valuable information the New Directions Aromatics website provides is the Absorption rates of various oils. Combine oil-based ingredients. Reduce your butter. I think it might be possible to substitute milk for a VERY small percentage of the water in this recipe, but I have no idea what would be a safe percentage or whether some unusual preservation measures might be required if you used even a tiny percentage of milk. Happy making . Hmmmmmm. Cetyl Alcohol must never be used near the eyes, inner nose, and ears, or on any other . Dosage: 5% for a serum. Recommended Usage Level. I had made it before but without the CA. Weigh out ad mix together the first 5 ingredients: the oil (but not essential oils), butters, and waxes. It helped me to adjust a recipe to suit my personal consistency preferences, yay! For the thickener , I used stearic acid. If yes, would the amount be the same (or very similar)? I have both BTMS 50 and 25 on my hands. Thank you Marie! Now I want it in alll the things! Required fields are marked *. Hey! I can scrape up larger flakes (almost curls) with my finger nail. Then there are also some very spendy additives that I have not yet experimented with, such as hyaluronic acid and squalane. How to Use Cetearyl Alcohol in Cosmetics Presenting as white to off-white flakes, this oil soluble ingredient usage rates depend on the product. You can use 1 type of oil or you can use multiple typesyou just have to mix in 2.7 fluid ounces (80 mL) total. Cetyl Alcohol has skin benefits in its own right, and 3. Cetearyl alcohol is probably still your best option, but the end product will be different. Pour into pre-sterilized containers and allow to come to room temp before capping. The size of your oil phase will also be a factor, but you havent listed that. On the day of manufacture, the emulsion was very glossy but after one month the difference in comparison to the other four samples . Can cetyl alcohol be used 1 for 1 substitution for beeswax in the cream bronzer from your book? Start with the emulsifying wax Olivem1000. 2. With all body butter and lotion recipes, the tweaking possibilities are endless! Unfortunately this is an impossible question to answersomething akin to how much salt should I add to a soup to make it taste good? Cetyl alcohol is considered an "oil-free" moisturizer. Cetyl alcohol thickens and adds body to out concoctions as well as improving slip. Thank you! In the list at the end of this article, I have given the absorption rates of most of the oils listed. It hardens with the strength of a wax, but offers incredible slip and a wonderful, almost silicone-like finish that is beyond luxurious and impossible to achieve with waxes. . Panthenol also works with DMAE in the production of acetylcholine which firms and tones the skin.Both D-Panthenol and DL-Panthenol are equally effective for moisturization, improvement of hair structure and adding luster and sheen to the hair. 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). 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. Anyway, the skinny on this is that BTMS-50 is better because: 1. Thanks so much for this post. 1:4 is 1 gram cetyl alcohol, 4 grams olive oil. The human body readily absorbs DL-Panthenol through the skin and it rapidly converts D-Panthenol to Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5), a natural constituent of healthy hair and a substance present in all living cells. 35-40 degrees Celsius add the preservative. This is the most important step to prevent bacterial contamination of your batch. Since this has water, any contamination will run rampant so be sure to use GMP and wear polypropylene gloves. A great gift idea but please keep some for yourself! Thanks, Sharon! 4 min read. INCI. I see cetearyl alcohol sometimes available. Here's why: While your water phase ingredients are heating, some water will be lost to evaporation. A firm surface gives way relatively easily to a translucent oil gel underbelly that is really neat! (My customers would never pay for this, is my guess.) Woo! 100g Mango Butter; 37.5g Cocoa Butter; 12.5g Cetyl Alcohol; Cool Down 1. THANKS. It contains a higher percentage of BTMS, 2. They dont seem to melt, they just vanish, leaving a powdery, silky dry patch of skin behind. Combine in a large glass bowl. Please note that nothing on this site has been designed or tested for large scale manufacturing or re-sale, and attempting to sell anything made from recipes on this website is a bit foolish and at your own risk. 36653-82-4. 0 - 6% . Cetyl alcohol. Aneesa. Start small, take notes! I tried to cover everything I've learned. I now consider it a minor miracle that they didn't separate. Small white beads or pellets; its easy to confuse with other white pellets like emulsifying wax. Or you could choose still fancier oils like perilla oil, rosehip seed oil, black cumin seed oil, and tamanu oil, which are available from online suppliers such as Brambleberry, Lotioncrafter, and New Directions Aromatics. that Marie extols the virtues of in her awesome c.a. They're found in animals and plants, like . ), 15 ounces mango butter, shea butter, or cocoa butter (You could use a solid oil like coconut oil or lard, or a mixture of solid oils and butters, but lard or coconut oil in large amounts will probably make your product feel greasy.). The use of emulsifying wax will do just that - bind your oils and water together on a molecular level with the end result becoming lotion or cream. Here's a general formula for creating lotion: 70-80% Distilled Water. 4% cetyl alcohol is also a pretty decent amount. Please suggest. Thats the only ingredient in that list I havent worked with, so that is where I would start in narrowing down the issue. As a rule, shoot for your e-wax being 25% of your oil phase. If you add some colorant (such as maybe a little pink mica) at this point, you will be fairly confident that everything is mixed in evenly, because you'll be able to see that the mica is evenly mixed. Your experiment with the cetyl alcohol/oil ratios was brilliant and gave me an idea of what to expect. Believe it or not, this simplifies things, since you don't have to wonder which ingredient is added to what, and when. Its a pretty groovy (and inexpensive, which is nice) ingredient . Using homemade soap, which is much less harsh than commercial "detergent bars," helped somewhat. 2% Essential Oil. Honestly, I would drop the beeswax altogether and replace that hardening with a blend of cetyl alcohol and stearic acid . Im wondering if I were to put a little in my whipped shea butter would it give it more stability? Spray your gloves and rub your hands together. 3-5% Co-Emulsifier. Instructions. 6% for a lotion or lighter cream. In 2005, CIR considered available new data and reaffirmed its original safety conclusion. 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.? A fatty alcohol we use as a thickener in lotions, salves, body butters, and more. Though not appropriate for anhydrous formulations, such as lotion bars, it is well suited for water-based formulas, and anionic and non-ionic surfactant systems, because lather/foam will not be reduced as typically happens with traditional conditioning agents. I have a question , do we have to measure the PH level when we making a body butter? I just purchased my first bag of cetyl alcohol. 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. How to manitne that PH level? Im sorry your shampoo is going to die . Leave both butters for some 12-24 hours in the fridge. . Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. Thanks, Belinda! 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. Cetyl alcohol fans, unite! Thank you for another great post! Spray your gloves again and move the pan to the stove. That mixture stayed a liquid for at least and hour and slowly solidify. Hi! Recommended dosage: 2-10%, or 10-15% for a thick body butter. Now that we've covered the basics, I will now reveal my very own recipe. Emollients . Each part is a single gram, so 3:1 is 3 grams cetyl alcohol, 1 gram olive oil. Despite having alcohol in the name, cetyl alcohol is not drying or irritating to the skin as it is not that kind of alcohol. For this sample we decided add 5% berry wax to the blend while lowering the oil concentration to 10% and keeping the mango butter and emulsifier the same. Once all the water/glycerin mixture has been added, stick blend the mixture till it's blended even better. (for SE use 6%) 6.3g Cetyl Alcohol; Cool Down. Once melted into concoctions it gives a beautiful, silky finish. Is it the Cetyl Alcohol or the amount that Im using? 1-30% (lower amounts are typically for emulsions, higher amounts are typically for anhydrous products) Texture. Just line them up on a surface that need not have been disinfected. Based on your cetyl alcohol vs beeswax comments, can I eliminate beeswax from my deodorant recipe and incorporate cetyl alcohol in its place? Your experiments help so much, we might be thinking I wonder what a bit more would do to this but when you do a precise 3:1 to 1:6, we have all the stats ready done for us. If you'd like to make a simple product with what you have at hand, it's worth considering. Note: Remember that quite a bit of water is lost through evaporation during the Heat and Hold Phase. Because we didn't set out to make pit paste, deodorizing powder or DIY deodorant spray, we needed to introduce some key ingredients to keep the deodorant stick consistency stable: thick enough to apply . If 1:1 is WAY too much, then start experimenting with thinning it out. What a great idea! The lotion was very runny which worked great in a pump bottle! Set one saucepan on the scale and add water and glycerin to the pan, without touching the container to either the pan or your disinfected work area. (Spray your gloves again.) 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. Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on November 09, 2019: Some people prefer to make body butter using only oils, butters, and waxes. Cetostearyl Alcohol; CAS# 036653-82-4; Cetyl Alcohol; Stearyl Alcohol. Measure out shea butter using a digital kitchen scale into medium sized bowl. Appearance. Recommended Usage Rate: 2% - 5% used in the cooling phase of formulation.Ingredient Function: Humectant/thickener/conditioning agent/antistatic agent.Excellent for use as a cationic conditioning agent to create moisturizing hair conditioners, thickeners, detanglers, anti-static and other hair care treatments, especially leave-in conditioners and hair masks, due to the extreme humectant (moisture booster and binder) properties provided. Now you're all set to weigh out ingredients. Thank you very much! BTMS-25, on the other hand, has only 25% BTMS, and Cetearyl Alcohol, as far as I can find out, has no particular skin benefits. Type of ingredient: Emulsifier Main benefits: Stabilizes products, prevents separation, and thickens. Recommended Usage Level. If you take a look at some of the formulas Ive shared using Olivem1000 you can start to get a second hand idea of how it performs Happy making! I've used BTMS-25 in my recipe because it is more reasonably priced and is available in bulk (from Soaper's Choice). You can always add scent to your formulations such as essential oils or a fragrance oil, but keep the scent up to 1% as this amount is usually more than enough. the not so good: People often identify alcohols with drying out the skin or hair. I followed this recipe. Looking forward to playing with it. Thicken and stabilise your formula by adding 0.3% xanthan gum (and/or 0.3% carbomer), together with 2% or more cetearyl alcohol . The local store I use has stearic acid but not cetyl alcohol , Ill have to do one with stearic acid in the future but you could, too . Add the cocoa butter. Method: In a heat-resistant beaker, add the BTMS50. I tried swaping out the cetyl alcohol for mango butter in one of my lotion recipes and good lord! I use 5% beeswax in my emulsifying sugar scrubs and I dont like the waxy feel on my skin after using it. double boiler (pot to melt wax) hand blender. I tend to use cetyl alcohol when I do choose to use a fatty alcohol with it. Very cool! Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, You'll need to upload them to a free image hosting service first, Raspberry Mint No-Melt Summer Body Butter, Rose & Tea Ultra-Light Conditioning Hair Balm, Strawberry Kiwi Conditioning Hair Treatment, Passionfruit Coconut Conditioning Body Lotion + Hair Conditioner, Passionfruit Coconut Matte Velvet Moisturizer, Green Tea Conditioning Hair & Body Butter. Partially fill a saucepan with water (about 1/4 the way full). As far as absorption goes, I've always found my product satisfactory. If you were using a recipe that did not divide the ingredients into separate phases, you would have to look up a bunch of them online before you began, to find out whether they were water-soluble, oil-soluble, or heat sensitive. Stearyl = C18 (C18H38O) Cetearyl = A blend of both. These were simple preparations of my own invention, which were just oil-and-water emulsions, using liquid lecithin as the emulsifier. So I think the rule would be that while milks may be used in bar soaps--even replacing all water with milk--they should not be used in either lotions or liquid soaps. And helpful! Can Cetyl Alcohol be used to thicken Hair Oils? Place the cup into the water and let the ingredients melt (15-20 min) I also love how inexpensive this ingredient is . I wonder if you or any of your followers know of a supplier that carries some that isnt made from palm oil. Running my finger over the surface quickly starts to melt the mixture and results in some lovely, silky slip. I am not sure what you'll come out with if you do this. It's a good idea to have some system for dating your batch. 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 also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. This one is also super solidno finger denting happening here, and running a finger over the surface doesnt cause any melting. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. (The heating and holding is to kill germs.). We use cetearyl alcohol in . Moisture Cream; Moisture Lotion; Body Butter; Cleanser; Face Mask; Skin Peels Thanks guys! This is also when you add the preservative. It also gives the nice silky finish to the lotion as compared to steraic acid that gives a rich-thick feeling. , Sadly Ive got nothing for you, but maybe another reader will . 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