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Sunflower oil is one of my favorite oils. It really makes my skin feel so soft. I use a small percent in some of my soaps. If it weren't for the low shelf life stability I would use it. Maybe I will still try it in a test batch for personal use.

Yes I am making lotion and jojoba is my liquid oil. I will also be using shea butter in my recipe. Right now I have jojoba oil so I think I will start with that and make a very small test batch once I have all my ingredients. I am waiting on some new e-wax I wanted to try and hopefully will...

Wanted to add I am leaning more towards the jojoba and meadowfoam. So I will do some more research on those. However, my recipe only calls for about 3-4% liquid oil so I am wondering does it really matter that much what oil I use? I had thought about rice bran (RBO) because it's supposed to...

Wow! I didn't expect so many replies or information to chew on. Thanks everyone who chimed in and gave me some information. I have been soaping for a number of years so am familiar with many oils and how they can effect the finished soap. Anyway, the goal is to make a lotion for mature skin so...

The majority of body lotion recipes I am finding call for jojoba oil. I have even seen some with MCT and sunflower oil. The lotion I am making I am wanting to use for mature skin and was considering using rbo instead of jojoba. Just curious what others think and what they might or might not sub.

My recipe calls for 5% goat milk powder to be mixed with the distilled water during the water phase. I have seen recipes using milk powders from websites I have bought from and used goat milk lotion that used powdered goat milk from a well known company that sells here in my area. I loved the...

I just found some interesting information. Milk is not recommended for subbing water in lotion recipes. Think of milk being left out on a counter. It will go bad. Same if used in lotion. Not a pretty picture. At least that was the analogy I found so I am going to nix it for now. I did get some...

Heating the milk to 170 degrees and maintaining it should kill off any microbial bacteria so I am not worried about that. It's the same making yogurt, you heat the milk and maintain to kill the bacteria and to also optimize the stability of the yogurt. Also, I am using Germall Plus in the cool...

Can I sub real milk like goat milk for some or all of the distilled water in my lotion recipe? The recipe I have uses distilled water and goat milk powder. Haven't info on if I can sub the water for milk so thought I would ask here. If I can, I plan to use a double boiler to heat milk slowly to...

I ended up using aloe vera extract in the recipe. Worked out just fine and I am happy with the butter. Been using it everyday and it feels great on my skin.

I use it too in my soapmaking. I go through a lot of it. Unfortunately our Walmart keeps running OOS so last time I bought a 4 gallon case on Amazon at a pretty good price.

Not to worry. I didn't make the hand sanititzer. I bought a premade base. I had originally bought the ingredients (including the aloe gel) intending to make hand sanitizer. However, I never did make it because I decided instead to buy a premade base to use. This being why I have a bucket full of...

You remined me I still have a pail full of aloe gel. But don't plan to use that. I bought it when I was making hand sanitizer last year.

Here are the ingredients: Ingredients % per manufacturer: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice 99.73, Potassium Sorbate 0.10, Sodium Benzoate 0.05, Citric Acid 0.12. Are those % enough to have an effect? BTW-- I have about 3 lbs of aloe vera extract/oil. I used that in a body butter recipe I made...

I have a combination lotion/body butter recipe and was wondering if I could sub the water for aloe liquid instead? Or would that alter the texture of the lotion? Also, if its okay to use it do I still need to heat and hold to kill bacteria? BTW I also have aloe X in powder form so I could put...

Yes, I have used it before and will keep the refined in mind. Right now, I have several pounds of lovely chocolate smelling cocoa butter to use so thought I would try it in the body butter. BTW-- I used Slick Fix from WSP instead of regular tapioca. Slick Fix is a modified tapioca starch and I...

The whipped body butter came out pretty nice. Except I don't think I will be using cocoa butter again. It was only 5% of the butters but it still made the butter a bit heavier and chocolaty smelling. I think if I make some chocolaty body butter I will definitely use the cocoa butter then. The...

When I warm oils like shea or palm I melt thoroughly until the liquid looks completely clear. Its the only way I know that the stearic is melted too. Before I started doing that I would end up with stearic spots in my soap. So I learned to melt those two particular oils until they are a...

Since I was doing a large batch I put all the butters and oils in the micro together and melted everything down. I had cocoa butter in the recipe so I just went ahead and melted them all, blended together, and stuck the whole bowl in the fridge with some saran wrap on top. Just checked it and...

Thank you AliOop! I'm so glad I asked. Apparently my instincts about the graininess was right. I definitely don't want grainy whipped body butter!!!