Adding Caffeine to Lotions and Cremes

Adding Caffeine to Lotions and Cremes
Adding Caffeine Powder to Lotions and Cremes

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Equipment You’ll Need
• Mortar & Pestle set – ceramic is best, try to avoid glass as pieces of glass can chip off and end up being ground into your caffeine paste.
• Scale
• High Shear Mixer (Handheld stick Blender)

Ingredients
• Caffeine Powder
• Deionized Water
• Essential Creme or Lotion

Instructions
1. Add caffeine powder to your mortar
2. Add BOILING deionized water to the powder at approximately 2-3 times the amount of Caffeine Powder
a. The mixture will look soupy at first, but will thicken as you grind the Caffeine Powder into the water with your pestle.
b. Once your mixture begins to thicken, cover and let sit for at least 24 hours. This mixture will keep up to one week.
c. Add more boiling deionized water as needed to achieve a paste consistency as the mixture may thicken and become chalk like as it begins to dissolve into the water.
d. Rub the paste between your fingers to check for any gritty particles. If so, grind again until you have a smooth paste.
e. Add your caffeine paste directly to your Essential lotion or crème at no more than 2%. Any more than this may compromise the preservation system in your lotion or crème.
f. Use a high shear mixer (hand blender) to make sure your caffeine paste is distributed evenly throughout your lotion or crème.

Creating your formula –
Now that you’ve created your own custom product, it’s important to create a formula. Recording your formula will ensure that you can recreate the same product consistently. It also gives you the ability to scale up or down to meet the demands of your customers.

1. When you are measuring your ingredient either chose to measure by weight or by volume. It’s important that you don’t switch back and forth. Eventually, you will have to make larger batches and will need to convert your formulas. It is best if you start all of your formulas measuring by weight. When you are ready to make larger batches you will not want to have to measure out your ingredients by the cup. Every ingredient has a different specific gravity, meaning 1 cup of feathers
does not weigh the same as 1 cup of water. In the long-run it is easier and more accurate to use weight for all of your measurements.

2. Since you won’t be placing ingredients directly on the scale, you must tare out the weight of your container. To tare your container weight, simply place the empty container on your scale and press the tare button. This should bring the weight to zero. Now you’re ready to place your ingredient into the container. Because you started at zero, you will get the weight of the ingredient without the container weight.

3. Record each ingredient weight and convert to a percentage of the total product.

4. You can also visit the Essential Library for recommended percentages of essential oils and conversion calculators. http://ift.tt/1W6UoTx

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