Why Is My Diy Lip Balm Gritty. As the butter is exposed to temperature fluctu. Instead wait until everything else is melted and use the heat of those oils and butters to gently melt the shea butter.
They have separated and have cooled off quickly while the rest of your product has cooled off at a different temperature. My lip balm is gritty. Due to the absence of a keratinized stratum corneum moisture rapidly evaporates from the lips causing them to dry out very easily.
That gritty texture is the result of uneven heating and cooling of the butter during your DIY.
If you use unrefined beeswax there is particulate matter that will make your final product a little gritty. These fats each have different melting points. Cocoa butter is made of differing combinations of saturated solid fats and unsaturated liquid fats. It is normal for small dents to appear on the top of lip balm as the balm mixture cools.
