salve preservatives question

[Guest guest]

Hi,

If I've asked this before, please forgive me. Can you tell me how many drops

per ounce of tea tree, benzoin, lavender, and vit. e I add to preserve my herbal

salve? I am infusing in olive oil calendula, chickweed, SJW, goldenseal, comfrey

rt. to make the salve.

Thank you,

Renee

[Guest guest]

I don't know about all of those. I use G-Chem preservative, and it tells me

to use 3/10 of 1%, or .3% by weight.

 

This would mean, then, that if I have 100 total ounces of oils and waxes in

my final product, I should then add .3 oz of G-Chem. That's not very much,

as you can see. Someone else once said how much vitamin e to use per

ounce or poound or something. but I don't know what the amount was. It

wouldn't be a whole lot, though.

 

hth

Hazel

 

> Hi,

> If I've asked this before, please forgive me. Can you tell me how many

drops per ounce of tea tree, benzoin, lavender, and vit. e I add to preserve

my herbal salve? I am infusing in olive oil calendula, chickweed, SJW,

goldenseal, comfrey rt. to make the salve.

> Thank you,

> Renee

>

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