Features

  • Quickly treat dry skin anywhere on your body
  • All-in-one balm, suitable for twist-up sticks, push-up sticks, pots and molds

Ingredients

  • Cocoa Butter: Natural wax extracted from Cocoa beans. Low melt point solid, provides thickening, some structure, and nourishment to skin and hair. Emollient, thickener, glossy finish. Usage level up to 100%.
  • Sunflower Wax: Natural wax extracted from sunflower seeds. Very high melting point and excellent structuring capabilities, increases stick structure and stability. Structurant. Usage level 1-15%.
  • Kester Wax K-24: Naturally derived wax ester of plant origin. Low melt point semi-solid, melts on body contact, provides cooling sensation. Adds slip, reduces greasy feel, dimethicone alternative. Usage level up to 50%.
  • Kester K-70P: Naturally derived plasticizer. Increases meltpoint, stability, and compatibility in anhydrous systems. Improves feel without affecting structure. Creates jellies and squeezables. Usage level 0.5-20%.

Categories

Main Topic

  • Color Cosmetics
  • Skin Care

Sub Topics

  • Anhydrous
  • Clean Beauty
  • Color Cosmetics
  • Natural
  • Skin Care
  • Stick
  • Unisex
  • Vegan

Procedure

  • Combine all ingredients and melt with low mixing until homogeneous, heating to 80-85°C.
  • Pour into appropriate containers around 80°C.
  • Allow to cool undisturbed.

Stability Information

  • Three months at 45°C
  • Three months at room temperature
  • Three freeze/thaw cycles

Supplier Information

  1. Koster Keunen, Inc.
  2. Barentz
  3. BASF

Additional Notes


*Plasticizers Used: Kester Wax K-60P, Kester Wax K-70, Kester Wax K-82P

Ingredient Trade Name

INCI Name

%
Phase A
Cocoa Butter1 Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter 12.0
Sunflower Wax1 Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Wax 7.5
Plasticizer* 15.0
Kester Wax K-241 Lauryl Laurate 8.0
Coconut Oil2 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil 34.0
Jojoba Oil2 Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil 13.5
Rice Bran Oil2 Oryza Sativa (Rice Bran) Oil 9.0
Vitamin E Acetate3 Tocopheryl Acetate 1.0