alwayssomething
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I am so glad I found this forum.
I have always made lip balms in pots but I have decided to switch to oval tubes for lots of reasons that I think are very practical. I am having the worst time with this. NOTHING is working and I have gone through so many supplies already.
My previous lip balms were quite creamy and soft. This was my recipe:
2 parts hemp butter
2 parts soy wax
1.5 parts coconut oil
1 part aloe butter
1 part cocoa butter
0.5 part rose hip oil
(then the appropriate amount of stevia and flavour oil)
Because I wanted a firmer balm for the tubes, I tried omitting the hemp butter (it's very soft and a bit smelly) and reconstructing the formula as follows:
4 parts soy wax
2 parts cocoa butter
2 parts aloe butter
1.5 parts coconut oil
1.5 parts rose hip oil
This mixture never hardened. It stayed liquid even when it had completely cooled. So I added 2 more parts soy wax, and now it hardens slightly mushy like margarine. My lip balms are now almost 60% wax and still soft! I want to keep adding wax, but it doesn't seem to be doing much good for some reason.
Here is the other issue that goes along with this:
Because even though it takes about 3 hours to go from liquid to mush, even at lukewarm/cool temperature it is liquid. When I pour it into the tubes it all leaks out the bottom. Even when it doesn't leak out the bottom, it still leaks down further than it is supposed to, which normally wouldn't really make much of a difference but these are translucent tubes and you can see the leaking. It looks very unprofessional. But when I let it totally cool and try to transfer it, I disturb the mushiness which doesn't allow it to ever cool into a smooth consistency. It liquefies on contact with body heat.
What do I do? I am going out of my mind. I have made entirely new batches and have gone through way too much product and packaging in the past few days... I am out of ideas. It seems like the only way to get a smooth, solid tube of lip balm is to pour it in while it's liquid, but it all leaks out when I do that. The weird thing is, when I pour the liquid onto a solid surface, it dries quite firm and waxy, which is why I don't want to add more wax at this point.
Thank you so much for your time and patience with this post. I really hope that someone has some ideas for me.
I have always made lip balms in pots but I have decided to switch to oval tubes for lots of reasons that I think are very practical. I am having the worst time with this. NOTHING is working and I have gone through so many supplies already.
My previous lip balms were quite creamy and soft. This was my recipe:
2 parts hemp butter
2 parts soy wax
1.5 parts coconut oil
1 part aloe butter
1 part cocoa butter
0.5 part rose hip oil
(then the appropriate amount of stevia and flavour oil)
Because I wanted a firmer balm for the tubes, I tried omitting the hemp butter (it's very soft and a bit smelly) and reconstructing the formula as follows:
4 parts soy wax
2 parts cocoa butter
2 parts aloe butter
1.5 parts coconut oil
1.5 parts rose hip oil
This mixture never hardened. It stayed liquid even when it had completely cooled. So I added 2 more parts soy wax, and now it hardens slightly mushy like margarine. My lip balms are now almost 60% wax and still soft! I want to keep adding wax, but it doesn't seem to be doing much good for some reason.
Here is the other issue that goes along with this:
Because even though it takes about 3 hours to go from liquid to mush, even at lukewarm/cool temperature it is liquid. When I pour it into the tubes it all leaks out the bottom. Even when it doesn't leak out the bottom, it still leaks down further than it is supposed to, which normally wouldn't really make much of a difference but these are translucent tubes and you can see the leaking. It looks very unprofessional. But when I let it totally cool and try to transfer it, I disturb the mushiness which doesn't allow it to ever cool into a smooth consistency. It liquefies on contact with body heat.
What do I do? I am going out of my mind. I have made entirely new batches and have gone through way too much product and packaging in the past few days... I am out of ideas. It seems like the only way to get a smooth, solid tube of lip balm is to pour it in while it's liquid, but it all leaks out when I do that. The weird thing is, when I pour the liquid onto a solid surface, it dries quite firm and waxy, which is why I don't want to add more wax at this point.
Thank you so much for your time and patience with this post. I really hope that someone has some ideas for me.
