SoapInTheCity Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I have been asked to make a cocoa butter stick like the body shop for a newly pregnant friend. Although I'm a little shocked by their ingredients in this thing! I definately don't want some of these ingredients in my stick! Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Cyclomethicone, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter, Copernica Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Fragrance, Tocopherol, Limonene.I would really like to use cocoa butter, karite shea butter and perhaps some other good ingredients like jojoba, hemp perhaps something like that. Any suggestions and what kind of percentages I should be looking at? I've never made something like this. Thanks for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 What is shocking about those ingredients? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmeredith Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I actually like the ingredients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsDammit Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 What is shocking about those ingredients?Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I've made lotion with a lot of those-great am I gonna croak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinInOR Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil - that's probably hydrogenated soy - they use a lot of soy. Any softish butter should work.Cyclomethicone - gives it a nice glideCetearyl Alcohol - this isn't alcohol like you think, it's very conditioning to the skin.Stearic AcidTheobroma Cacao (Cocoa) ButterCopernica Cerifera (Carnauba) WaxSesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Fragrance, Tocopherol - this is Vitamin E - stability of oils and good for the skin, Limonene - a constituent of essential oils that gives a lemon type scent. Pretty common for mass products to use the particular component on it's own instead of a full essential oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoapInTheCity Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 I was just really surprised that the first ingredient was vegetable oil. Sesame oil was a surprise to me too. Not that any of these ingredients were bad, I just was really surprised. I thought it would be mostly cocoa butter in a 'cocoa butter' stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carriegsxr6 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Sesame Seed Oil is actually highly conditioning on the skin and doesnt leave a greasy feel.its also great in bar soap too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ah-soy Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 If you decide to add essential oils be very careful about which ones. Some should not be used if you're pregnant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudsnwicks Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I know what you mean. Cocoa butter doesn't appear until #5 on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ah-soy Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I was just really surprised that the first ingredient was vegetable oil. Sesame oil was a surprise to me too. Not that any of these ingredients were bad, I just was really surprised. I thought it would be mostly cocoa butter in a 'cocoa butter' stick.Big companies and others do that...name and advertise a product using a popular/beneficial ingredient even though it's way down on the ingredient list percentage wise...grab the consumers attention..doesn't make the product bad, just a sales technique. Obviously a good one cause they sell a ton!I have a recipe for a great body butter using shea and cocoa butter + some other oils. You could probably turn it into stick or bar form with a little added wax. Let me know if you want it and I'll send it to ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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