Description
INCI: Cetearyl Glucoside
A natural wax extracted from corn and coconut
Use 5 to 10% to make cream or body lotion.
Example recipe to make 100 g of cream
Oil Phase
- 10% vegetable oil
- 8% wax
- Water phase
- 80.5% purified water, floral water, essential water
Add the wax to the vegetable oil
- Warm in a bain-marie until the wax has melted. Do not overheat or the wax will break down
- Bring the water to a simmer
- Add the water to the oil phase
- Stir regularly until the mixture has cooled down add
- Add 1% EO
- A preservative will have to be added or the cream will go mouldy within a few days
One can play with proportions:
make a cream richer by increasing the % of carrier oil
make the cream more liquid or thicker by reducing or increasing the amount of wax