Let's make body lotion
Every minute, your skin loses between 30,000 and 40,000 dead skin cells. This means losing millions of cells every day, which makes your skin look less glowing. Being a moisturizing agent, body lotion has the power to hydrate your skin and give the glow back to it. Production involves water and oil phases, which you then mix with an emulsifier and blend until homogeneous. Preservatives are essential for any solution containing water for the prevention of microbial growth.
Which body lotion equipment do you need?
Cost-effective homogenizing and emulsifying system
Inline batch mixer for solids and liquids
Volumetric fillers for viscous liquids
Empty bottle shape, colour and size sorting system
High-end empty bottle inspection system
High-precision X-ray fill level controller
Dispersing machine for emulsions and suspensions
Economic dispersing machine for emulsions and suspensions
Dispersing machine for very fine emulsions and suspensions
Ultra-fine dispersing machine for emulsions and suspensions
Colloid mill
Cone mill machine
Corundum disk mill
Continuous homogenizing system
High accuracy homogenizing system
Horizontal kneader
Vertical kneader
Continuous kneader
Batch dispersing machine
Batch dispersing machine for abrasive products
Batch dispersing machine for bottom entry into vessels
GMP homogenizing system
Dust-free continuous homogenizing system
Dilution system for two or more liquids in one pass
Small-scale laboratory dispersing machine
Pilot dispersing machine for testing and scale-up
In-line laboratory dispersing machine
Laboratory dispersing machine for low-viscous masses
Jet flow agitator for high-viscosity media
Agitator for medium viscosity media
Agitator for low viscosity media
High-pressure homogenizer
Electric shrink tunnel solution
Low speed can sleeve applicator
Low speed shrink sleeve applicator
Shrink sleeve applicator - 400 per minute
Shrink sleeve applicator - 600 per minute
In-line tamper evident applicator head
Shrink sleeve applicator - 800 per minute
Laboratory size auto-steam shrink system
Advanced auto-steam shrink system
Premium steam tunnel for sleeve application
Shrink tunnel for applying sleeves to different containers
Tamper-evident sleeve applicator for caps
Energy efficient tunnel for sleeve application
High-speed unscrambler for small bottles
Low-speed unscrambler
In-line monoblock linear filler & capper
Multi-head capper
Servo controlled filler
Low speed tube filler
Medium speed tube filler and sealer
Medium and high speed range automatic tube filler
High speed automatic tube filler
Loading cassette for a tube filler
Tube feeder for a small scale production tube filler
Tube feeding unit for high volume and high speed tube filler
Tube unloader and feeder
Vertical cartoner for pharmaceutical applications
Horizontal cartoner for pharma and cosmetics
Automatic cartoner for applications in pharma and cosmetics
Vacuum mixer for suspensions
Homogenizer for creams
Filling machine for creams
Self-adhesive linear labeling machine for bottles
Cosmetic cream filler
Shrink sleeve labeling machine
Steam tunnel for shrink sleeve labels
Hot air tunnel for shrink sleeve labels
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Transforming your production process with body lotion making equipment
In the first stage of body lotion production, you prepare and mix the oil and water-soluble ingredients separately. You start with your dry ingredients, such as cetyl alcohol in the form of flakes or powder, sometimes blended while dry. You will usually add emulsifiers and stabilizers to the water phase, while powders and flakes may mix better with your chosen oil. Some ingredients mix better when heated so that you might consider body lotion making equipment such as kneaders, dispersers, and homogenizers fitted with temperature control capabilities.
Even so, you should take care to add active ingredients after steps involving elevated temperatures to avoid degradation. Once the two phases are thoroughly mixed, you bring them together in a homogenizer machine to reduce particle size and develop an evenly distributed mixture. You will then mix this final combination until the body lotion preparation is entirely uniform.
How can you avoid the formation of agglomerates in your mixtures?
When dispersing powders into liquids in the body lotion making process, agglomerates might form – this can affect the texture and performance of the final product. Agglomerates can certainly be filtered out at the end of the process, but the best way to ensure the quality of the final product is to avoid their formation. The problem is that they can resist breakdown by conventional agitators. These clumps of ingredients will form primarily on the surfaces of your body lotion making equipment where conventional agitators are unable to exert the necessary shearing forces for reconstitution.
Various agitators exist to address mixtures of different viscosities and formulations prone to the formation of such aggregations. As a result, you may require specialized bladed agitators such as high shear mixers for mixtures that are prone to the formation of such agglomerates.
How water forms the distinction between creams and lotions
In essence, the question of cream or lotion is one of water content, as water directly affects the viscosity of the formulation. Lotions will consist of more water, while creams contain more oil. Practically, this means that dry skin will benefit more from creams, while lotions are better suited to oily skin. A thinner formula is less likely to clog pores, while a thicker formula provides a protective barrier to lock in moisture. Body lotions will generally be easier to homogenize, while creams are more likely to require specialized equipment. Of course, this will depend heavily upon your chosen formula and the properties of its ingredients.
Hurdles to homogenization and how emulsifiers can help
By nature, oil and water are an unlikely pair. Mixing the two is virtually impossible without an intermediary to bridge the gap. For this reason, emulsifiers are essential to the production of body lotion. These amphipathic molecules have both polar and nonpolar aspects, allowing them to bind to both. It’s this property that facilitates the mixture of two otherwise immiscible liquids. If you’ve tried to wash oil from your hands with water alone, you’ve seen this principle in action. The addition of soap, a very common emulsifier, will mix with the oil and wash right off.
