Moisturizing Ingredients for Alcohol/Fragrance Mixture

For your mixture of 75% alcohol and 25% fragrance oil, you can add moisturizing ingredients to help reduce the drying effect of the alcohol. Several water-soluble ingredients can be used, and some can dissolve directly in alcohol.

Suitable moisturizing ingredients include:

• Glycerin: This is a humectant that attracts and retains moisture. It is soluble in water and can help hydrate the skin. You can typically add Glycerin at a concentration of 1-5% to an alcohol-based product to provide moisture without making it too sticky.
• Safe-B3™ (Vitamin B3, Niacinamide): This ingredient offers multiple skin benefits, including improving the skin barrier, reducing moisture loss, and adding hydration by stimulating ceramides. It is water-soluble and can be dissolved in alcohol. You can use Safe-B3™ at a rate of 1-10%.
• D-Panthenol Care (Pro-Vitamin B5): This is another excellent humectant and moisturizer that helps form a skin barrier and reduces moisture loss. It is soluble in water and can dissolve in alcohol. For skin products, a usage rate of 1-3% is generally recommended to avoid stickiness, although it can be used up to 10%.

These ingredients can be added directly to your alcohol phase and stirred until dissolved.

Cream Makers for Oil-Free Body Lotion

Regarding making an oil-free body lotion with only water-soluble ingredients:

• Light Cream Maker™ is suitable for this purpose. Its description indicates it can be mixed into the water phase even without an oil phase, where it will function as a thickener to create a cream or lotion texture.
• Satin Cream Maker™ is primarily designed as an emulsifier for oil-in-water formulas, although it also thickens. While it might provide some thickening in an oil-free system, Light Cream Maker™ is explicitly noted for its ability to thicken the water phase alone.

Therefore, for an entirely oil-free body lotion using only water-soluble ingredients, Light Cream Maker™ would be the more appropriate choice to achieve a lotion consistency.