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I tried my hand at lotionmaking for the first time this past week, and when my first small batch went without a hitch I did a slightly bigger batch, and I've run into kind of an odd problem.
The recipe I used is a slightly modified version of the one from the lotion book that comes in the BB starter kit:
2.5 oz Sweet Almond Oil
1.5 oz Avocado Oil
1.5 oz Stearic Acid
1.8 oz Emulsifying Wax
1.5 oz Mango Butter
.4 oz Shea Butter
27 oz Distilled Water
.3 oz Phenonip
I mixed it up in one big batch according to the directions (liquid oils, stearic acid, and wax melted in the microwave, mango & shea butters added, water warmed in microwave, mix it all together, add phenonip once it's thickened), then poured it into 12 oz mini-batches to add fragrance (by my calculations, I should have wound up with 3 mini batches, but I only managed 2.5, I assume this is because of lotion sticking to various instruments and containers). The first batch got .3 grams of a brown mica and .05 oz of turkish mocha fragrance, and it turned out perfectly.
The second batch got .3 grams of a purple pigment and was SUPPOSED to get .05 oz of lilac fragrance, but my scale battery died while I was pouring and I decided to err on the side of caution and leave it just lightly fragranced. Within a couple hours, the lilac smell had been completely overtaken by a horrible eggy sulfur stink.
Any idea what could have caused this? I'm worried it's a problem in the whole batch and the turkish mocha is just strong enough to cover it up.
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