What can be used in place of stearic acid?

[AshleyR]

The sugar scrub recipe I'm testing has stearic acid in it. I don't have any of this. Is there anything I can sub for it? It is 4% of the recipe.

Thanks!

 

[tincanac]

hmmmm, I'd like to know the answer to this too - I'm thinking that they use Stearic Acid in crayons - and that I have seen beeswax crayons, maybe beeswax? I dunno for sure though - but if anyone else out there wants to offer an opinion on this idea - it would be wonderful if we could sub Beeswax for Stearic Acid

 

[AshleyR]

I ended up using beeswax, so we'll see if it works! The recipe also had e-wax and a tiny bit of polysorbate, so I'm thinking there shouldn't be any issues!

 

[Guest]

Beeswax or soywax ? I don't know.can't find much info on the net either.

Kitn

 

[knicelyr]

I have substituted Myristic Acid, Lauric Acid, Palmitic Acid for steric acid.

It depends on what the steric acid is being used for. If it's just for hardening then any of those or palm kernel or coconut oil will work too.

If you need a insoluble fatty acid you could try the palmitic acid. Myristic and Lauric add nice lather and also hardness but are soluble.

Of course steric is the easiest to get a hold of in any case.

How did the bees wax turn out? Supposed to be a great hardener.