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I would like to add lotion to my line of products I sell at craft fairs this coming fall. I am still learning about lotion and would like options on the ingredients of a mulit base lotion I have found. The directions say you scent and add water to the thickness you prefer with guildlines on how much of each. Here are the indgredients:
Water, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Palmitate, Shea Butter, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, PEG-100 Stearate, Ceteareth-20, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetaryl Alcohol, Vitamin E Oil, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Methyparaban, Propylparaben Buytlparaben, Isobutylparaben, Isopropylparaben, Phenoxythanol

I have also located a base that is paraben free that you just add EO or FO and its ingredients are:
Ingredients: Water, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Dulis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Cyclopentasiloxane, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Sorbitol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil**, Linum Usitatissimum Seed Extract**, Punica Granatum Extract**, Olea Europaea Fruit Extract**, Laminaria Digitata Extract**, Morinda Citrifolia Extract**, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract**, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Tocopheryl, Phospholipids, Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Ascorbic Acid, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed Extract, DMDM Hydantoin, PEG-150 Distearate, Xanthum Gum,Disodium EDTA.

** Denotes organic material.

I think I would really like the second one better, but I have little experience with lotions. Any advice or opinions on these two options is greatly appreciated.
Amy

If you are going to add water, then the first one is better as it contains parabens. If you're not, then the second one is better, but I hope they don't consider the grapefruit seed extract as a preservative, because it isn't. Some GSE also contains trichlosan, which isn't included on the ingredient list. Some people have severe allergies to trichlosan.

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DMDM hydantoin is an antimicrobial formaldehyde releaser preservative, and the chelting agent, Disodium EDTA. is used in food as a preservative, but I don't know if it also has that effect in cosmetics. Still, I am suspicious of a supposed "natural" base that uses a formaldehyde releasing ingredient!

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Tammy