Candle Man Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I make sell & use gel hand sanitizer (using the base). I bought a foaming hand sanitizer (and like it better) and would like to be able to make it. http://www.waterjourney.com/Here are the ingredents...Active ingredient: benzalkonium chloride 0.13% (antibacterial agent). Inactive ingredents: extracts of aloe, chamomile and lavender, preservative (DMDM hydantoin), purified water.This is a patented formula but could anyone help me on how to make this?I know I could change the inactive ingredents or the %'s of them, to come up with my own formula.TIA - Candle Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindsaycb Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I'm surprised that really the antibacterial agent is less that 1% of the entire makeup. Can that be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinInOR Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I don't even think that's a legitimate ingredient list. Where's the foam coming from? I doubt the b chloride foams. and the extracts sure won't, and the water won't.They've left out all the important stuff, which for something that's classed as a drug, is a bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candle Man Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 The ingredients came off the bottle I have. The foam is produced from the foamer bottle.No it is not as thick of a foam as foaming hand soap, it is a weak foam, but it does foam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindsaycb Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I don't believe anything can truly foam without the bubbling agent. So there needs to be some type of surfactant in there.I pulled up one recipe that actually did soap with alcohol to make a hand sanitizer. Tie that with some aloe & oils of tea tree & lavender...there you go.You'll still need a high content of water to make it fluid enough for the foamer bottle though. Then a preservative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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