Silky Shower Gel
This is a nice, easy on the skin Shower Gel. The perservative is built right into the recipe when you use our Aloe Liquid. There is enough of our commercial antimicrobial preservative in our Aloe Liquid to protect your recipe too!
The end product is quite thick and naturally a solid white color. It looks a lot like our lotion only thicker.
2 oz Soap Crafters Emulsifying Wax
18 oz water
12 ounces Super Concentrate
18 oz Soap Crafteres Aloe Vera Liquid
3 ounces Glycerin
2 ounces Almond Oil
1/2 Teaspoon Soap Crafters Fragrance or Essential Oil (Optional)
20 Drops of Liquid Colorant (Optional)
1.2 ounces Humectant (Optional)
Put 18 oz water with emulsifying wax and heat in a pot on stove until wax is melted. Remove from heat.
Add Super Concentrate, Aloe Liquid, Almond Oil, Humectant, Fragrance and liquid colorant. Use stick blender to mix until smooth. (A stick blender must be used to mix because hand stirring will not mix it properly.)
Mix for about 1 minute. Allow mixture to sit overnight before bottling to give the air time to escape and for it to thicken.
Makes six 8-ounce bottles of Shower Gel.
NOTES:
If you add humectant, it will give your finished product an amber tint.
If you let wax & water solution go cold before you continue the recipe, you will need to reheat it to melt the emusifying wax. If the Emulsifying wax sets up again in the water then it will not emulsify the Super Concentrate and other ingredients. So, once you start this recipe, continue until you're finished.
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Oh, on the topic, would
Oh, on the topic, would reheating the finished product and stick blending it stop the separation, or am I pretty much stuck with it like that since it's all been mixed?
Thank you! It was starting to
Thank you! It was starting to drive me nuts, the fact it kept separating and I couldn't figure out why. Next time I'll try heating up the other ingredients too and see how it works out.
It sounds like the
It sounds like the emulsifying wax is failing. You might try heating up the glycerin, almond oil, etc., to match the same temperature that your water/emulsifying wax is, before mixing them together. Possibly the oils and such are so cool they are making the wax solidify instead of emulsify.
No, the Super Concentrate doesn't go bad.
When I wrote this recipe, I was working in a very hot warehouse so everything was a lot warmer than normal at room temp.
Separation?
I've tried this recipe twice, purchased all my ingredients (save the distilled water) from SoapCrafters, and all of them except the Super Concentrate are new - purchased within the last month or so (I've had the super concentrate for a while now, maybe it can go bad?).
I've followed the directions and measurements given, heating the water with the emulsifying wax in it until the wax melts and can be stirred into the water. I measure out all my ingredients before beginning so the water isn't getting cold while I'm adding the remaining ingredients.
The only thing I did differently than directed is adding a few drops of soap crafter's color and fragrance oils the next day before bottling it (because I needed different colors and scents, not just 6 bottles of one kind).
What I'm noticing after about two days after it's been made is a layer at the bottom of the bottles that appears to be a clear liquid, like some part of it is separating for some reason. I can shake it back up and still use it and haven't had any adverse reactions, but I'm wondering if this is normal or if I've messed up the recipe somehow? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
It is by weight.
It is by weight.
Measurements.
Are these measurements being done by weight or volume? Just wanted to check before I tackle this recipe.