According to an article in Whole Health Chicago, borage oil is quite often used in place of evening primrose oil, however, borage oil has more than twice the GLA and therefore the healing benefits. If not, do I have to mix the Orange EO with a CO, apply that like a serum, and THEN use my face lotion as normal? Thanks for reading In my experience, the vast majority of cosmetic ingredients are vegan. glycerin First of all, Im in love with your site, tips and recipes. Your face cream sounds much more complex than anything I use on a daily basisI tend to use just pure argan oil. Youre such an inspiration! My question is, is there an oil I can substitute in place of Kokum butter? Thanks for reading, Kathy! Happy making! 1 Tablespoon Aloe vera Gel Hopefully something in there is helpful. I have incredibly sensitive skin- I actually stopped using shampoo and conditioner and found out that it was the reason my acne was so bad. What does it feel like to you and do you want that feeling in your end product? In terms of texture, coconut oil is smooth and oily; shea butter is thick, tacky, and sticky. They make lovely gifts! The reason this may not work is a difference in both texture and melting point. Abyssinian oil is a pretty good place to start. Just swap them out 1:1, they are basically indistinguishable from one another in DIY recipes (other than price, of course). FYI, most people who have nut allergies are not allergic to coconuts as they are not botanically nuts Coconut is not a botanical nut; it is classified as a fruit, even though the Food and Drug Administration recognizes coconut as a tree nut. Coconut oil and shea butter are really very different, as I discuss in this entry. It may help with weight loss maintenance. I would like your input on the carrier oils you think would make a great moisturizing lip balm. Will I be able to store it at room temperature (about 27 degree Celsius )for 6 months? I was wondering should I put more shea or coconut oil for my lotion? Yes, doooooo it! Im 6 months new into using essential oils and now making my own body butters, lip butters, cellulite creams etc.. Which oil can be used as an alternative oil for Sweet Almond Oil ? Yes, babassu oil would be a good alternativethough I do worry that theyre so similar that you may also be allergic to it, so tread lightly there. hi Its yeah. I believe it is also slightly astringent. Your site is divine! Hello, I love your blog, Im from Mexico. But am doing research before I make anymore rookie mistakes such as making a drastic ratio change on ingredients! I made a small lotion sample with equal amounts (roughly 1 tsp.) Its so nice to have such helpful info in one spot. Thanks for reading and I look forward to your response! thanks for that.. just one question D: .. when makin body butter, do you think i coul substitute shea butter with coconut oil? Im not a beekeeper or chef so my info might not be accurate however these seems like the most valid subs. Bezoin is a natural, plant derived resinoid. The oils in this category vary wildly in terms of texture, colour, thickness, nutritional composition, and scent, but generally they are our base oils/butters. Thats just your ingredientsyou arent missing anything. Just noticed that the natural is very dark in colour, what is the difference really? I am keen to use castor oil for the amazing properties for the hair but she just told me she is pregnant so I need to avoid castor oil. Im highly allergic to it (apparently very rare lol) and meadowfoam oil appears to be quite difficult to acquire in Australia unfortunately. Hi Bella! I noticed you havent mentioned Rosewater& glycerin and also pure lanolin. Does your formula contain at least 10% wax. Exactly what I was looking for. The charts are extremely helpful! In any event, this post provides you with ways to think about all oils so you can understand them and dont need every oil to exist in a chart. Thanks for reading, Jo! Cocoa butter is MUCH harder than shea butter as you can see in the liquid/soft/brittle chart . You could also look at non-soap cleansers like soap nuts & yucca (both contain natural saponins) and clays. One could just synthesize pure urea, for instance, in a lab or one could harvest massive amounts of animal urine, isolate the urea from it, and then purify it. Youve got carrot oil and carrot seed oil (essential oils) which dont actually contain any Vitamin A. It sounds like youre having great fun experimenting Something to keep in mind with body butter is that you just need to use way less of it than lotionmy mother has also remarked that salves/body butters are quite greasy, but when I see how much she applies, its no wonder she thinks they take ages to absorb! It can be used up to 25%. i considered buying mango butter for making lotion bars, because i heard mango butter doesnt have much of an odor, but it was pricier so i decided for the shea butter instead. Its more so for the recipes that call for that ingredient specifically. Interactions. Almond would probably be the best choice because it is liquid (unlike coconut oil) and doesnt smell like butt (like neem). Benefits Borage has been linked to a. Some oils, like coconut, have a reputation for clogging pores, so if somebodys skin clogs easily I would probably avoid it, but loads of people love coconut oil on their skin and have no issues with it, so it really just comes down to what YOU like, and what your skin does well with . Shea butter is not a thing Id put in an anti-acne creamthats a bit like asking what you could add to spinach to make a cake. Im a recent subscriber and finding you to be a wonderful resource for DIYers. The Diazolidinyl Urea uses allantoin as part of its synthesis, and while that *could* come from animal urine, its almost certainly synthesized. You dont have to spend long reading descriptions, benefit lists, and reviews of various carrier oils to decide that you need every single one of them, stat! Drug claims have to be supported with drug studies and lots of paperwork, so I suggest avoiding them . So, theres still a chance of the end consistency to be different than my test run. Both oils are in at least one of these charts? This is really I am looking for. Mango and cupuacu butters would be my top recommendations as a replacement for shea butter . Hi I really enjoyed your article, very well informed and shows me how much I dont know! What is a good replacement as a carrier for Emu Oil? Obviously shea butter is not a good sub. Thanks, Ana! Ill try one of these. Thanks for the advice on going with weight vs volume! Thats like using chocolate syrup instead of chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie recipe because the chocolate chips will melt during the baking process but we still need them to be solid later in the life of the cookie . Thanks for the clear and informative post! How about mango butter? I dont have jojoba oil can I use neem, coconut or almond oil as substitute of jojoba oil? I wouldnt recommend making the swap, but if youre determined try using half cocoa butter, half sweet almond. Baobab oil has a percentage of saturated fatty acids which makes it a good oil to use to extend the . Beeswax, coconut oil and palm oil is produced here, while other carrier is imported. My mixture turned milky white. Hemp, candelilla and carnauba waxes for example.. Most trxipies use beeswax or a vegan version of wax. Until then I will need to do more reading! What can I substitute coconut oil with in a shaving cream recipe thats non-comedogenic? Unfortunately I really cant help you here I have basically no idea what you did. Thanks for all this great information! Is there a substitute for vitamin E oil as I cant find it here. I found lots of information about castor oil being a traditional thing to eat to try to induce labour (this is interesting), but couldnt find anything about it being problematic for topical use. Perhaps it would be best if you looked at technology from a time when coconuts were not ubiquitous? Thank you for the very informative post with all the proper substitutions! And also the way you steer us clear from the marketing loopholes Thanks! I make amazing bath bombs with shea butter, coconut oil and cocoa butter but Ill need to change my recipe as I need to speed up the process somehow and melting the butters is quite time consuming. A few small studies suggest that it can reduce pain, although the evidence is not high quality. If youre concerned about the colour of seabuckthorn (which can be very aggressively orange!) Each one will contribute differently to a final product (think oil vs. butter when baking). No. Like BBQ sauce or something. Its hard for me to say how shea will work in warmer temperatures, but I imagine it will be softer for you than it is here, making it closer to the way I experience coconut oil (with 6 of fresh snow outside!). So I have a question for you that you may not be able to answer, but Ill try anyways! Thanks :-). I am wondering where I can find more information about absorption. Hi! I use coconut oil in the toothpaste I make, but it is always liquid in the summer. 10. Welcome back So sorry to hear youve been ill, thats awful. Plz help. But I tried anyway). I am living in Indonesia, where average temperature is 27-35 C, which making coconut oil base body butter melt right after my body butter is ready. Hello Marie! Not sure if they would blend well. I am still an amateur at DIY but I am slowly learning more about these things. Ive been looking at making a salve for arthritis. What is a good alternative? You cannot incorporate honey as it is water soluble; youll have great difficulty as itll refuse to blend in. My hands looks oily. It sounds like vegetable shortening to me, so perhaps try that? Kokum butter is more than 50% stearic acid, which is very hard/solid. Jojoba oil gives very nice thickness to my cream but I want to substitute it by oil which gives similar thickness ( having reduced cost). It will either be too hard, too soft, the essential oils wont be diluted enough and will be irritating, or, or, or the list is pretty much infinite. are also problematic for you. cold pressed Brassica napus (Rape Seed), You really do have a gift:). Hi Marie, Thanks! I need to avoid these for a relative with a tree nut allergy. I have done about 5! Ive also been experimenting on my own a bit based on what Ive learned. Your website is a great source for information, thank you! I swear all the easy recipes and products call for coconut oil (solid) and Im trying REALLY hard to not use it for a while because I think it may be making my skin MORE dry. Or results can vary if I use the microwave instead? Borage is a Spanish plant that has green leaves and star-shaped flowers. For hemp, I got unrefined, but you do have to be gentle with it. Sorry no it also called for lemongrass cypress and lavender, Honestly, I dont see any of those EOs doing anything meaningful for spider veins, either. Fantastic, thanks Jane! Carrier oils serve a variety of purposes. So, after some medical issues that have made me look near dead according to my friends and wifeI decided that I needed to give my face some treatment to bring back some tone and color. I love how it feels after it dries up. If you are making an emulsified cream with emulsifying wax you can probably get away with the substitution, but the final product will not perform the same way. Ive never worked with it, I have no intentions of doing so (though it will be legal here in Canada fairly soon), and I really cant tell you anything about working with itsorry. If Im reading your charts properly, youre saying it would be worth a try using babassu oil instead? Im going to make body butter. I have been reading quite a few articles about how Vitamin-C is the must-have ingredient in your skin products. Hi! One of the questions I am asked the most is along the lines of I dont have ingredient X, can I use ingredient Y or Z instead, or just leave it out?. One substitution I am asked about a lot is swapping coconut oil for shea butter, and vice versa. Ive got a lot of reasons, but they generally boil down to my being far too busy making soap & writing about it to sell it as well (Plus a more than full time job, social life, etc.). My issue is, do i need a carrier that absorbs quickly or a bit of botha s it needs to absorb over 24 hours (but i dont want to be greasy all day. Hello, hope you are enjoying Australia.. my parents just returned!!! My first guess is that you didnt use high-shear blending on the second one? I love this!! Thoughts? So, when making substitutions in a formula where the melting point and texture are important, be sure to pay attention to the melting points and textures of your ingredients. So before I found that post I found this one which is helpful on a different issues re: CO replacement. The green colour wont dye your skin like seabuckthorn can, but it will turn products a pale green (like this). I have made your naked lip balm and would like it not so soft, as Im going south. I continued adding arrowroot but that ended up making it feel flour-y plus still greasy. what would you say are the differences between shea butter & mango butter besides shea butters smell? As to your question please dont do that if you want to make lip balm You will end up with a liquid (coconut oil melts at 24C and when combined with another liquid oil the final product is liquid unless your house is about 5C), with gritty bits of cocoa powder sunk to the bottom, and a blob of honey floating on top (honey is water soluble and will not easily emulsify with oils, especially without a thickened to stabilize the emulsion). Because i want to make a lotion which is thin, light and fast absorb, not greasy. In addition to the benefits of an oil, sometimes a formula will call for an oil because of its individual scent, the three most obvious ones being cocoa butter (smells like chocolate), coconut oil (smells like coconuts), and beeswax (smells like honey). I think youll find that looking to remove all forms of sulphates and coconut from your skin care products is much the same, unfortunately. If I do, it could be a couple months or a couple years. Im so glad to have hooked you . Hi Marie. If youre making a lip gloss, youll want one that absorbs slowly so it will sit on your lips and look shiny. Basically, its the perfect size! And GOD bless you for sharing your knowledge with us. Do you have some sort of guideline for ratio polawax to different oils? Check out my different wax quick guides to learn how different waxes perform in comparison to beeswax . What a great post for someone who is just learning these things. You also dont have an emulsifier in there since youre combing both oil and water. Hi, Anne! If youd like to hire me to ensure you get your formula, get in touch . I managed to make a scaled down batch of naked salve and found out that the amount of cocoa butter that I substituted in does make it softer. Even our oldest surfactant, Turkey Red Oil, is made by reacting sulfuric acid and castor oil. This oil is not used in cooking as slight heat can ruin the beneficial fatty acids it contains. It was very helpful for beginners, like me. I appreciate it!!! I am curious, do you have any experience with Shea Nut Oil & how it can be used to reduce the bumpy feeling from shea butter? No lotion, just runny milky failure. I love the info about the oils, thank you! I was shopping the other day and found some colza oil do you know this ingredient? In body butters recipes call for shea, cocoa and mango butter.. What can I use in place of mango butter? It is very viscous and does not absorb into the skin readily. I am trying to make an hydrating barrier cream for my horse that suffers from hyperkeratosis. The challenge with that swap is that the major components that make kokum butter itself are saturated fats, which are solid. If you want to make a lotion, an emulsifying wax would be a good choice Since it sounds like youre relatively new to this Id really recommend following a simple recipe first to see what youre aiming for before venturing off on your own . I am working on making some substitutions in a hand repair balm and landed on your page! Thanks! I recommend checking out this section of my website, the list of advanced search results on psoriasis at NDA, I never recommend using palm or palm kernel oil, I wrote up some observations on different shea butters, essential oils dont contain any vitamins, Swifty Crafty Monkey has a great post on all the ins and outs, youll need a proper broad spectrum preservative, most people who have nut allergies are not allergic to coconuts as they are not botanically nuts, https://simpleskincarescience.com/ph-acid-mantle/, Luxury brand formulation secrets for expensive-feeling lotions. That way you can start to understand how things work and make easy and successful substitutions! Hi there Can I substitute cocoa butter for sweet almond oil? I used Shea butter and Avocado butter as well. Making a Braiding gel for cornrows but it keeps coming out to viscose and suggestions? Even though the grapeseed oil is considered fast absorbing, it felt too greasy-feeling for my liking. The closest youd be able to get to this would be a gram to gram swap, but thats still not going to be very accurate. I dont want to use this oil due to the possible GMO contaminants which I work very hard to keep away from the bees. Im assuming theres some sort of emulsification profile for various oils somewhere out there in internet land. And one more u said we can use olive oil,which type of olive oil i should use ?virgin cooking olive oil is ok ? Is your soap available for sale? On the whole, I wouldnt recommend this , At home vitamin C serums are really tricky to make because vitamin C is super prone to oxidization, and once it oxidizes, it doesnt work anymore. Sorry if I overlooked the info, but am hoping you can point me to a resource (chart, website, etc.) I recently made a cellulite cream with Shea butter to give it a softer/ richer feel. I have very dry skin and I thought oils could help, but the ones I have tried dry my skin, such as olive oil, coconut oil, apricot oil. Been going through a major maskne flare-up, and adding borage oil to my routine (will detail in comments) seems to make my blemishes much less angry. I am wanting to make a psoriasis cream from a rollerball recipe, 6 tbsp grapeseed oil equivalent to ? in shea butter. To create gluten-free versions of foods that usually contain gluten is typically a pretty involved process requiring a complete re-formulation from the ground up, taking into account the lack of gluten from the get-go. This will be used in a moisturizer with Shea, Carrot Seed and Rose Hip. And then give it a whirl in a simple formula to test out how your skin will react to it. Let me know if you have any other questions/topics youd like to see covered And thanks for reading! (aka goopy/ slidy messy on my mat or clothes..). Its partly due to mites, fungal and bacterial. can I use olive oil or coconut oil instead of jojoba oil to make a lip scrub? If you have any other post requests, feel free to share themId be happy to add them to the list . I am currently working on a list of beginner type lessonsif you have any ideas, feel free to pass them on . That said, they are both in the soft category, so you can try it, but the texture, scent (if using raw versions), and melting point of the final product will be quite different, especially if that ingredient makes up a large part of the recipe. 1 tablespoon Fullers Earth Two, in facthere and here You should also just peruse my The Basics section, theres lots of good articles in there on things like solubility and stuff not to buy that you might find useful! In your opinion, would you say that the times stated will allow a consistency that most store bought balms would have? do you find they are they interchangeable for the most part? Im afraid Ive never been a hot soaper, so I cant speak from experience there. The propylene glycol is definitely vegan (though I suppose arguments could be made re: the possibility of dinosaurs being involved in the petro-source though that would open up a whole new can of worms!). Its also exactly as long as sheets of parchment are long, meaning its super easy to line as well. Check this out for more information on different waxeschoose the one you think sounds best. I didnt even know what RSO was without googling itcannabis oil, right? Please read the Substitutions list in the post. For example, things like Germall Liquid Plus, according to my limited research is not vegan and I have a hard time finding a vegan preservative. Like corn oil, soybean oil is best suited for pan-sauts and baking. Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, You'll need to upload them to a free image hosting service first. Thanks for reading I dont end up selling anything I make. Borage seed oil contains very high levels of two types of polyunsaturated omega-6 essential fatty acids, 20-26% gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and linolenic acid (LA, which your body converts to GLA). I havehave you done a search? I am trying to made a body butter. Im finding it too greasy. Borage oil has been shown to be effective at helping people maintain significant weight loss. Hahaha :D! Hi Reya! I want to make your lemongrass & seaweed shampoo bar and was wondering what I could replace the lard with. Any suggestion how to make body butter suit for my country temperature and using local ingredient only? Many of the formulations collected there are anhydrous and not all of them use coconut oil Happy making! The average temperature in my country is 33 degree Celsius. There is zero guarantee Ill ever make anything suggested to me. I cant wait for your future post Lessions. What Else You Need to Know: Condition your hair for repair with this sustainable set. It definitely helped me understand my oils and butters better. Hey Ace! you said shea is not a very good replacement for coconut. 1 beeswax : 2 coconut oil is perfect for 32-34 celcius. Thanks! Marie, You just saved my life! I read through the comments and read about someone who doesnt like the coconut oil but my skin actually cant handle it. I recently needed a substitute for a oil and your site popped up, then I was stuck here for hours. I am new to all this and still learning. Hey Caramelle! I noticed that you do not mention jojoba oil or Castor oil in your charts. You should also DRASTICALLY reduce your batch size! Keep an eye out for more entries in this seriesthe next will be on essential oils . that helps convert the carrier oils in recipes, i.e. What a fantastic article and recommendation. Is it a soap oil? Thank you for sharing. Can it be used in a lotion? Chances are the neem oil is the magic ingredient in that eczema salve; if you want to ditch it I would choose a different recipe entirely , I have been making tinted lip balm in a pushup tube with virgin coconut oil (22%), unrefined shea butter (23%), grapeseed oil (32%), candelilla wax (15%) and natural mineral (9%). Marie, you have an absolutely great site repeating what scores of others have said. I understand that you just use argan oil as a face moisturizer. Apricot kernel oil 3.5%. Borage is a hardy annual edible that is known for its beauty. 1. Youll probably want a wax in your body butter to keep it comfortably solid at your higher temperatures . So I need something to replace the Canola Oil. Lip Balms: beeswax, cocoa butter, castor oil, avocado oil, coconut oil *some essential oils*. I currently steering clear of any recipes that contain water or the likes, until I feel comfortable that I have researched enough and feel educated enough to make an informed decision on which preservatives I want to use. I got your book and Im wondering a sub for the coconut oil in the vegan lipstick, any suggestions? Perhaps hazelnut for the cleanser properties? Thanks for reading, Nicole! Thanks for sharing, Im loking for a carrier oil specifically for carrying my supplemets into the skin instead of tablets 11 Emollients, found in ointments and lipid-based tears, typically use a combination of mineral oil, light . I have a recipe for face cream, which calls for almond oil. Promises of miracles can generally be disregarded, but some oils are genuinely better for skin that is mature, acne-prone, oily, dry, or sensitive. Ill head right over to that site, and Ill let you know when I find my miracle cure! I love your blog! Hi there, x amount of a soft oil (shea butter) to a x amount of a liquid oil (grapeseed). Do i need to use oly cold pressed coconut oil.Actualy i am a indian and we ground our own coconut oil which is in liquid form,can i use that for making body butter?. Mango butter is closer to shea butter in that its quite thick and has a higher melting point, so Id save that for other projects Thanks for reading! Hey Norma! In my attempts I made them with Camellia Seed, Jojoba oil. For neem, if you can find a refined version youd likely get more use out of it as the unrefined stuff stinks. Any insight would be much appreciated by my itchy skin! Mango butter! I am making a salve for eczema and it calls for neem oil. Try going down to ~20g of coconut oil instead of a cup. Hi Ayse! Thank you. I dont know if I am making a good decision removing olive and sweet almond oil, or whether I should keep them in the mix along with all the others. I believe carrier oils should be used in line with the purpose or what one is trying to achieve. I look forward to the post about essential oils! Hey Jamie! You can often buy gel capsules of it, and then you can puncture the capsule to get the oil. I cant wait to try one. You would think with everything else needing allergy labeling this information would be included with the carrier oils, but it isnt. and Im switching out the beeswax for candelilla for it to be vegan friendly and i know that using half the amount of candelilla when replacing the beeswax. If I could, do I have to make any modifications? I am not confident Ive ever found a completely coconut and sulphate free surfactant, especially if the derivatives of coconut oil (lauric acid, etc.) You can use shea butter in a scrub, and it will make it creamier, but I would recommend including an emulsifier to improve rinse-off and reduce the mess left in the tub , Hi Marie, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate also appears to be synthetic. I would really love to try that as soon as I get my hands on some. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Itll make for a thicker final product, but wont effect it as drastically. Sweet almond oil 3.5% What was the oil to water ratio in your lotion? Good news is that I didnt put any EOs in so that I can just reheat it. nerolidol (an essential oil in plants). If you and your skin dont like it that is totally ok and normal I recommend checking out this section of my website. The new layout seems cleaner and yet more magnified on the topicswell done. Hi Shadee! Do you think a balm with tumeric butter, St. Johns wort oil and beeswax would work? However, I have already had the misfortune of trying to substitute Shea butter for Coconut oil (solid) because I tried it after listening to a certified Aromotherapist, say it was a great switch. Nounless you plan on keeping the coconut oil melted for the entire lifetime of the lip gloss. Borage oil and fish oil have been added to the formula to provide 0.9 grams of gamma linolenic acid, 0.1 grams of eicosapentaenoic acid, and 0.5 grams of docosahexaenoic acid per 100 grams of fat . 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