Hi, I wanted to work from a recipe to make some flavoured lip balm, but all the ingredients are listed as percentages.
For example; 35% almond oil, 25% shea butter, 1% oil.
How do I convert this into grams?
Is it just 35g, 25g & 1g?
Or am I missing something. I want to be careful when using the flavoured oil that I'm not adding too much.
Any advice?
Yes, pretty much. If all the ingredients are listed as percentages you can directly convert those to another unit of measurement, just as long as you use the same for all of them.
The example you've given...
35% almond oil, 25% shea butter, 1% oil.
...doesn't add up to 100% though, so I assume you've not listed everything here.
I guess the recipe was given as percentages just for that very reason that you can use whatever unit of measurement you want, as it will allow you to scale it to any size of production you want from making just a small amount for personal use up to large scale factory production hehe!
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Ahh, great, thanks.
No, you're right, that isn't the full recipe. The full recipe does actually add up to 100%
Thanks again for your help 🙂