Jojoba beads
A scrub.
Opens the calculator’s starter recipe, 1000 g of oils, with this additive at the dose it fills in, ready to change.
What it is
Jojoba beads, such as Floratech’s Florabeads, are small beads of jojoba wax that melt at 66–71 °C. Their maker says they do not fall under the definition of a microplastic.
Floratech primary source
How much
- 0.5–3 % of the batch filled in Floratech primary source
- 0.5 tsp per pound of soap Bramble Berry supplier or guide
The calculator fills in 0.5 % of the batch: 7.1 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: at light trace.
- Stir it in as it is.
- Not in the cook: it melts.
Floratech primary source
What it does to the recipe
- It changes neither the lye nor the water: it is only weight in the bar.
Floratech primary source
Worth knowing
- Caution: The beads melt at 66–71 °C, which gel or a hot-process cook can reach: keep the soap cool. Floratech primary source
- Jojoba wax beads are not plastic, so the EU and US microbead bans do not cover them. Floratech primary source, Microbead-Free Waters Act; Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 primary source
Spoons and drops
- No source weighs a spoonful of it: weigh it.
INCI name
Jojoba Esters
Guides that discuss it
Sources
Floratech, Florabeads Jojoba product information: bar soaps 0.5–3 %; melting point 66–71 °C; "does not fall under the definition of microplastic".
Bramble Berry, jojoba beads: "Start with 0.5 teaspoon per pound of soap".
US Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-114) and Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 (REACH Annex XVII, entry 78): plastic microbeads banned in rinse-off products; natural, unmodified polymers are outside the definition.