Ingredient Formulation

[Gaisy59]

So frustrated! The other day in a discussion about how to figure out amounts in an ingredient list in a manufactured product one wonderful SMF posted a formula to help figure it out. If course i wrote down the info but now can’t find the piece of paper. I don’t even know if i am explaining this correctly.

Does this sound familiar? It was in a discussion only a couple of days ago…

 

[Gaisy59]

Was it possibly you @Zany_in_CO?

 

[lsg]

What I do in a case like this is to google each ingredient to see the maximum suggest usage rate. Ingredients are listed in order from greatest amount to smallest amount, so you can use the ingredient list along with the maximum suggested percentage rate to come up with a recipe.

 

[Gaisy59]

What I do in a case like this is to google each ingredient to see the maximum suggest usage rate. Ingredients are listed in order from greatest amount to smallest amount, so you can use the ingredient list along with the maximum suggested percentage rate to come up with a recipe.

Yep that’s the hard way but i believe someone shared a website with a “fill in the ingredients” and it would do the work. So frustrating because it was just mentioned.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Was it possibly you @Zany_in_CO?

Sorry. Not me.

i wrote down the info but now can’t find the piece of paper.

Doncha hate that?! I do that all the time too! I'm sending one of my angels over to you to help you find it! The sooner the better!

 

[AliOop]

I didn’t see that thread so I’m sorry I can’t help you find it. But I did just take the free mini-course from Chemist’s Corner, and also watched the bonus videos they sent. His method for reverse-engineering a formula was fairly similar to what @lsg suggested.

He made the point that you have to know the usage rates on the major ingredients to establish a baseline. Otherwise, you could end up using way more than is safe or necessary. A good starting point would be looking up the preservative since that will have a low usage rate and fairly small range of percentage in a recipe- meaning that everything after it is also quite minimal.

 

[Gaisy59]

What I do in a case like this is to google each ingredient to see the maximum suggest usage rate. Ingredients are listed in order from greatest amount to smallest amount, so you can use the ingredient list along with the maximum suggested percentage rate to come up with a recipe.

Yep that’s the hard way but i believe someone shared a website with a “fill in the ingredients” and it would do the work. So frustrating because it was just mentioned.

 

[Gaisy59]

Ah well…something that has flitted through my life never to be found again. Guess i will have to go old school

 

[lsg]

There are several formulator sites; but you first have to fill in the percentages for each ingredient.