momof4kids Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I'm making a lip balm with these ingredients13g cocoa butter25g grams olive oil12g beeswax5 vitamin e capsulesFlavor OilFlavor oils says to use 2-4%. My question is how do I know what 2-4% is?Also, can you add to much Flavor Oil? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MochaMama Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I'm making a lip balm with these ingredients13g cocoa butter25g grams olive oil12g beeswax5 vitamin e capsulesFlavor OilFlavor oils says to use 2-4%. My question is how do I know what 2-4% is?Also, can you add to much Flavor Oil?Add 13 plus 25 plus 12, which gives you 50g, then multiply the 50g by .02 (for 2%). So you would add 1g of flavor oil to make it a 2% mix. I do believe you can add too much flavor oil - I've never done it, but I suppose it would make people's lips burn or turn bitter or something. hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof4kids Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Thanks!! That does help. You explained it very well. Off to make some lip balm!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MochaMama Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Thanks!! That does help. You explained it very well. Off to make some lip balm!!I used to be a math teacher!! Glad to help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinInOR Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 And to make it a bit easier to measure flavors, you can use graduated pipettes and say that 1 gram is equal to 1 ml. It's close. Scales aren't usually too acurate when you're trying to measure 1 gram, even if they go down that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof4kids Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Thanks Robin that makes it even easier!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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