chemical free bases......and rollerballs............

[Guest guest]

hello again i asked this before with no reply ........are any of you

guys using them with your creams and bathbases or are you making

them yourselves..........

To wendy........i am also in the process of looking into the

rollerballs for menopusal symptoms......have you seen the bottles

for sale?.....jane (newbie too!)

[Guest guest]

Hi Jane,

 

Sorry I missed your first post! Welcome aboard! Make yourself at home

and comfy

 

Ok, about bases. If you are making a lotion it MUST have a preservative

of some sort in it. See, once you mix oil and water together (like

lotion) it needs to be preserved, because it is an ideal environment for

bacteria and other nasties to grow in. There are a variety of

preservatives out there, not just parabens, but those are the most

widely used. There hasn't been an effective all natural preservative

found to date. The whole grapefruit seed extract thing is controversial,

because it was found that GSE is produced with grapefruit seeds that

have been preserved (with parabens) and those preservatives are in the

extract itself and are what give it the preservative effect. I do make

my own lotions for myself, but for sale, at the moment, I use a lab

created base to keep my customers safe

 

Creams that don't contain water of any kind only need an anti-oxidant

added to them. Yes, bacteria and nasties can be introduced to them, but

they aren't the spontaneous icky things breeding ground that water based

lotions are. Yes, I do make my own creams.

 

As for bath bases .. I make my own soaps including bar soaps and liquid

soaps (shower gel too). Those don't contain any SLS or other synthetic

detergents. I haven't found them to need a preservative to date either

(has to do with the pH being alkaline - around 9 or so). Bubble bath is

a tricky one. I've yet to find a formula that actually bubbles nicely

and then the bubbles stay! The liquid soap foams great but those bubbles

don't last in the tub water ... so far decyl polyglucose seems to be the

most friendly synthetic option for that.

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom - not quite awake yet - need caffeine *lol*

 

Virgin Red Palm Oil - ON SALE NOW!

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

 

janeec2003 [jane_cummins]

 

hello again i asked this before with no reply ........are any of you

guys using them with your creams and bathbases or are you making

them yourselves..........

To wendy........i am also in the process of looking into the

rollerballs for menopusal symptoms......have you seen the bottles

for sale?.....jane (newbie too!)

 

 

 

janeec2003 [jane_cummins]

 

Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:16 AM

 

Hello all.......very excited to be here,i am Jane an Aromatherapist

and in training in aromatic medicine.Have a clinic in a natural

health centre and i work in group homes for young men with severe

autism and ladies with learning difficulties.

 

My qestion is that i am in search of bases that are chemical

free....no parabens in creams and sls freee in bath bases......

 

Any tips greatly recieved.Thankyou Jane.c x