Now that I've been doing this awhile, my AD's have, for the most part gone into remission (I know, yeah right). Anyway I've pretty much settled on Ingrams as my regular day to day cream. I usually buy it cheap from the same seller on our favorite auction site and never had a problem. I opened a new tube this morning, and it's all runny and separated. I thought it would still lather, but it lathered poorly at best. I tried to transfer to a small tupperware bowl and mix it back up, but no dice. In all I had 3 tubes like this. I bought them at the same time, but probably 6 months ago or so. Does this stuff go bad after a while, or could I have gotten a bad lot? I also bought some Erasmic and Palmolive from the same guy at the same time and they are fine. Any ideas?
Bad Ingrams?
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From superlather.com:
Ingram Blue does not store well and is decidedly prone to separation over time
and very sensitive to extremes of heat. As a result some special considerations
must be given to its use and storage. If possible keep your Ingram Blue
somewhere cool and dark. If your Ingram Blue does separate it can be
reconstituted by either replacing the cap and giving it a vigorous shaking or inserting
something slim, like a pipe stem cleaner, in the mouth of the tube and working it
with an up and down motion. This can be messy so do it over your sink.
If the Ingram has separated to the point that there are tiny white bits floating in the
watery fluid then the product has been seriously compromised and is usually
past the point of reconstitution in the tube. If you have received a tube like this from a merchant you should consider returning it. If you don't wish to go to the bother of returning it, you can express the contents into an Anchor Hocking glass bowl
and reconstitute it there as best as you are able. Once this is done the product will
once again generate a lather but it won't come close to what it would have produced
in its original state--still worlds better than the current Erasmic stick though!
Ingram Blue does not store well and is decidedly prone to separation over time
and very sensitive to extremes of heat. As a result some special considerations
must be given to its use and storage. If possible keep your Ingram Blue
somewhere cool and dark. If your Ingram Blue does separate it can be
reconstituted by either replacing the cap and giving it a vigorous shaking or inserting
something slim, like a pipe stem cleaner, in the mouth of the tube and working it
with an up and down motion. This can be messy so do it over your sink.
If the Ingram has separated to the point that there are tiny white bits floating in the
watery fluid then the product has been seriously compromised and is usually
past the point of reconstitution in the tube. If you have received a tube like this from a merchant you should consider returning it. If you don't wish to go to the bother of returning it, you can express the contents into an Anchor Hocking glass bowl
and reconstitute it there as best as you are able. Once this is done the product will
once again generate a lather but it won't come close to what it would have produced
in its original state--still worlds better than the current Erasmic stick though!
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