Teach Soap

If I wanted to add some mica's to my lotions and butters for a bit of sparkly shimmer, whats a good amount to start at? I made 24 oz. of lotion today and added about 1/2 tsp of diamond dust and you can barly see a sparkle in the sunshine

I'm one of those people that don't like color/glitter in lotions & such, but I did see this over on Teachsoap
http://teachsoap.com/body-bronzing-lotion/

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Genny

I wonder if maybe the color of the mica you're using would make a difference as well? I'm thinking that diamond dust wouldn't be very shimmerish, whereas a copperish mica would shimmer more.

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Genny

I've got some fine white sparkle from Go planet earth. I'll go test it to see how much it takes to make it sparkly in lotion.
If I don't report back tonight, I'll definitely let you know by tomorrow.

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Genny

I experimented:
I started out with 1/32 tsp per oz of lotion. There was maybe a dozen sparkles left on my arm. 1/16th tsp per oz of lotion gave me a little over 30 sparkles on my arm.
Here's what I got with 1/8 tsp of GPE's Fine White Sparkle to 1 oz of lotion.



It shows up better in person. On my forearm there was quite a lot of noticeable sparkliness (There was 87 sparkles).

But holy cow, the amount that stayed on my hand that was applying the lotion. It was sparkle city. I washed off my hands and arm each time before applying the next lotion so I didn't mess up the results too much.

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Genny

You're welcome. My 3 older daughters were happy to receive some special glittery lotion when the got home from school today

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Genny