Squalane Gel Moisturizer

In this post, I am going to be sharing with you a simple gel moisturizer formula. That you can use as a base formula and customize to your liking. This post is going to be a free post.
Full disclosure: the Ellam Pazchai Light Green Water Soluble Powder, Guar Gum, and Squalane were sent to me by Essential Wholesale and Labs. I made this formulation to work with the ingredients.

The first part of the formulation is the water phase. I am going to keep it quite simple. To naturally color the formulation, I will use Ellam Pazchai Light Green Water-Soluble Powder 0.1%. Since I am going to use a natural water-soluble colorant, I am going to use a chelator, sodium phytate, at 0.20%. That is the highest recommended percentage. For the gelling agent, I will use guar gum at 1% to create a nice thick gel. To process the guar gum, I will slurry it with glycerin at 5%. To preserve the formula, I will use Liquid Germall Plus at 0.50%. Finally, to make it a moisturizer, I will add Squalane at 1%. You might wonder why I am adding oil to a water-based formula with no emulsifier. The reason is the gelling agent; guar gum, can suspend the oil droplets.

Calculations:
100-(0.2+0.1+0.5+5+1+1)=92.2
92.2/2=46.1
Method:
Sanitize all your equipment, containers, and workspace. Gather all your ingredients and make sure that your notebook is set up. In a glass beaker, add all your phase A ingredients. Stir until the ingredients are uniform. In a glass prep cup mix phase B together. Pour phase B into phase A with high-shear mixing. Be careful at first, as it is quite watery and will then reach a thick consistency. Finally, add phase C and mix. At this point you can check and adjust the pH if you want. See notes below on how to do that. Pour into final packaging. Be sure to label and date your latest formulation.
Adjusting pH:
Adjusting pH (Dilution Method): Get two beakers; one will be used as our washing beaker, and the other will be used to make the dilutions. The main thing with making dilutions is you want to make enough that the probe can be covered. You can weigh out 1 gram of product and 9 grams of distilled water to make a 10% dilution. Or you can weigh out 2 grams of product and then 18 grams of distilled water. Get your pH meter out and rinse with distilled water into the other beaker I had you get. Dry off the meter with a lint-free product. Mix it well and take the pH. If you are using strips, do not make a diluted solution no matter the viscosity; or the pH will be way off. Do not put the strips directly into the product. Even if you are taking the pH of the product directly, you want to add your product into a separate beaker. Wait for the reading to be stable, take a note of the pH, and discard the Sample after. Then put the product on the scale and tare it. Add 0.10g either the 50:50 citric acid solution (to lower the pH), the sodium hydroxide (to raise the pH), or TEA (to raise the pH of the product). Stir well, then wait at least 1 minute before making another dilution. Keep repeating the process until you get the desired pH. You will be surprised how much it may take. I recommend making a bigger batch than you want so you can account for that.

Substitutions and Alterations:
Substituting ingredients will change the final feel, viscosity, and overall effect of final product. percentages and formulating procedure s may need to change with substitutions. These substitution suggestions are just suggestions and have not been tested to work.
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