28-03-2017, 07:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-03-2017, 07:42 AM by surferjoe2007.)
Salve Recipes changes/fixes
I took another look at that vegan omega 3 and it's mostly flax oil with almost no EPA and DHA. I found some stronger ones with more EPA+DHA but they have a bad fishy odor just like the real fish oils. So back to the drawing board there. Still, pure flax oil is pretty good and you can replace the vegan omega 3 blend with flax oil. Or since that's a lot of just flax oil without the EPA & DHA, you could change to 420g cocoa butter, 6 tsp bulk vitamin E mixed tocopherols and only 3/4 cup flax oil. Since that vegan omega 3 oil was 90-95% flax oil I'm sure 100% flax oil will come out just as nice as my test batch. If you replace part of it with cocoa butter then expect the salve to be harder. But it can't be harder than 100% cocoa butter and it is possible to use all cocoa butter so it should still be fine.
I took another look at that vegan omega 3 and it's mostly flax oil with almost no EPA and DHA. I found some stronger ones with more EPA+DHA but they have a bad fishy odor just like the real fish oils. So back to the drawing board there. Still, pure flax oil is pretty good and you can replace the vegan omega 3 blend with flax oil. Or since that's a lot of just flax oil without the EPA & DHA, you could change to 420g cocoa butter, 6 tsp bulk vitamin E mixed tocopherols and only 3/4 cup flax oil. Since that vegan omega 3 oil was 90-95% flax oil I'm sure 100% flax oil will come out just as nice as my test batch. If you replace part of it with cocoa butter then expect the salve to be harder. But it can't be harder than 100% cocoa butter and it is possible to use all cocoa butter so it should still be fine.