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</html>";s:4:"text";s:28233:" Spray your gloves again and put the second saucepan on the stove, and start heating both pans. I have a question , do we have to measure the PH level when we making a body butter? 4% cetyl alcohol is also a pretty decent amount.  When you do your ratios  youre using oil to cetyl. If you were using a recipe that did not divide the ingredients into separate phases, you would have to look up a bunch of them online before you began, to find out whether they were water-soluble, oil-soluble, or heat sensitive. Shown below is the famous lotion and body butter cheat sheet, which gives ingredient ratios for making several skin-care products. Very cool! These were simple preparations of my own invention, which were just oil-and-water emulsions, using liquid lecithin as the emulsifier. I massaged a small dollop into my leg and it absorbed quite quickly, leaving a patch that was obviously not dry like the surrounding skin, but wasnt shiny and oily looking. 5. After making the Snowy Dawn Luminizer, I realized thats what I wanted the solid perfume to feel like upon application. Use at 5% - 10% in your &quot;water in oil&quot; or &quot;oil . 3% BTMS to 1.5% Cetyl / Behenyl alcohol. Cetyl alcohol is pretty unassuming. I read somewhere that you can use cetyl alcohol or stearic acid in body butters to help with the over texture and melt point. It melts at 50C (122F), which is slightly higher than cetyl alcohol ( 49.3C [120.7F]) and lower than stearic acid ( 69.3C [156.7F] ). I love your content. Marie  have you tried cetyl alcohol in body/shave soap?  Still very solid; I cant dent it with a finger pad. It feels silky, powdery and cut the greasy feeling completely!!  Answer: If your recipe doesn't contain water and is just a mixture of butters and oils, you do not need a preservative. If you wish to use 0.3%, use 9 grams.). I usually do stearic or cetyl at half the e-wax percentage, or equal to it if I want a thicker cream. You will also need to heat and hold a saucepan of plain distilled water. Time to update myself. I was using cetyl alcohol at 3% so swapped in mango butter at 5% and reduced the water. Pour into pre-sterilized containers and allow to come to room temp before capping. I prefer cetyl for glide, but regularly use stearic for a little more thickness and the lovely white color. It should just be cetyl alcohol. This content is accurate and true to the best of the authors knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional. I use myrica fruit wax and when its in the process of cooling, it crystalizes a bit. Turn the stove-top to medium heat, placing the double boiler on top of the heat. I have found that the crystalline effect when used in higher concentrations can create pockets of oil that remain liquid, so you may not want to go for a 100% swap, but thats just a thought.  Test it and see , hi marie! I just found som CA that bought months ago and forgot about it so Ill be using it in my lotion tomorrow. It's really a matter of preference. Method: In a heat-resistant beaker, add the BTMS50. Prepare a water bath: add 3cm/1&quot; of water to a wide pan. They did not contain any humectant ingredients (because I didn't know about them) or any oils with special skin benefits (because I didn't know about them either).  When my daughter became a beekeeper, a beekeeper friend gave her his own special salve with propolis, and she loves that too. Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on June 24, 2017: Lisa, I think substituting aloe vera, floral teas, and hydrosols (I'd love to use rosewater) is wonderful! In a different heat resistance container, add phase B, and start with the glycerin. The most commonly used emulsifier is BTMS, which can be either BTMS-50 or BTMS-25. Below, we go over common ingredients and what properties they add. (I don't know if this really comes out cheaper or not.). Then weigh out the sweet almond oil and fragrance oil, and stir into the melted butters and wax. (If I remember right, it works best at a pH of around 5.) Cetyl alcohol is a hybrid of alcohols and fatty acids or oils and . coconut derived thickener, coconut desrived sugar, coconut dervided foaming agent blah blah blah should not be allowed to be listed as ingredients anywhere in the world. Weigh the water phase to find out how much water was lost to evaporation and use the water from the saucepan of plain distilled water (which you also heated and held) to replace water lost through evaporation. Method: In a heat-resistant beaker, add ingredients from phase A. 2% Essential Oil. I follow you on YouTube and IG. Results can sometimes be not quite what you expected even when you use the Cheat Sheet. If youre making a lotion or conditioner and its used at 4% or less, cetearyl alcohol is probably your best alternative. Aneesa. Thanks, Belinda! As I already mentioned lotions and body butters are germ-magnets, in which it is essential to include a preservative. Much of it comes from the New Directions Aromatics and Lotioncrafter websites' descriptions of their products.  Finally I wanna try it. It will firm up over the next 24 hours. (Weighing accurately is important if you are selling.). It helped me to adjust a recipe to suit my personal consistency preferences, yay! This ingredient is the quiet achiever in your emulsion, one that people never used to really think about much until recently. 20.09.2022. . While there are other quaternary cationic polymers (I think several), I have no experience with how they perform. These are products that will make lotions and body butters thicker. Please read the Substitutions list in the post. What I've done in this recipe is substitute the cheaper BTMS-25, while also adding Cetyl Alcohol and moisturizers. Even with a preservative and careful preparation, this stuff still has a shelf life. That clump is surprisingly soft when I pick it up given how firm the mixture was in the dish on its own. Allow the butter (s) to fully melt (about 3-5 minutes). Muchlove, suki, Thanks for the update, Suki! Based on your cetyl alcohol vs beeswax comments, can I eliminate beeswax from my deodorant recipe and incorporate cetyl alcohol in its place? Hey! Here's why: While your water phase ingredients are heating, some water will be lost to evaporation. A humectant is any of several ingredients that draw moisture to the skin.  Preparing lotions and body butters in an antiseptic environment is what is known as "good manufacturing practices." Cas Number. The finish on the skin is beautiful; smooth and a bit silicone-y. It is customary to present lotion and body butter recipes in a format in which the various ingredients are separated into "oil phase," "water phase," and "cool-down phase." I love how you took time to do this..it is a very good lesson . i know i should bug the beauty brains about this & i promise i will if theres any there there. They dont seem to melt, they just vanish, leaving a powdery, silky dry patch of skin behind. , Thanks, Becky! Two of my daughters have very dry skin. These additions changed the texture quite a bit, making it much "lighter." Since this has water, any contamination will run rampant so be sure to use GMP and wear polypropylene gloves.  The feel is slightly lighter than the methyl glucose sesquistearate so I am thinking I will try this emulsifier for face creams as well. I dont really care about these things too much, so I use it in handcream, hahaha, but am always curious). Is the BTMS unnecessary when using cetyl alcohol? Medium-absorbing oils don't need to be balanced. Click here to learn how! . Leave both butters for some 12-24 hours in the fridge. Your teaching approach with your science interest makes what you share so worthwhile and helpful. Cetyl alcohol is considered an "oil-free" moisturizer. that Marie extols the virtues of in her awesome c.a. Her recipes for body "milk" and moisturizing "milk" cleanser contain to milk whatsoever. Im glad you found it helpful! Have a great day! In a different heat-resistant beaker, add the distilled water.  Have fun! It is probably a pretty humdrum recipe.  The water you add should also be heated and held at 165 F. for 20 minutes, so you'll need to put a separate pan of water on the stove, and heat and hold it, along with the Water Phase pan.  0.5-1% Vitamin E. 29%59.5% Carrier oil. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Once melted, remove from the heat, and stir occasionally as the mixture cools. With all body butter and lotion recipes, the tweaking possibilities are endless! Scrape sides of bowl using a spatula. 3-6% Emulsifier. Cetyl alcohol is so much more than just a thickening ingredient! Woo! 1:1 ratio of fractionated coconut oil and cetyl alcohol, plus a tiny bit of amber paste from Kuumba Made (very potent and lovely scent). Its popping up in recipes and I figured if I want to have fun, Id better grab some. i've used aloe vera gel, or floral "teas" in my facial creams, lotions, body-washes & shampoos instead of water tho Sharon Vile (author) from Odessa, MO on June 21, 2017: Mary, I did a quick search to try to find absorption rates for butters, but the only thing I can find at the moment is that mango butter absorbs more quickly than shea butter. Whip it to the desired volume and appearance and put it in the fridge. Bring the water to simmer (low-medium heat). Yes to both; Im actually experimenting with the second one right now  It is helping reduce the skid that can come with lots of beeswax, and is creating a faster absorbing product! Will it acumulate on your skin? Youll have to do those experiments yourselfits already snowing here, so I cant offer much help!  Each part is a single gram, so 3:1 is 3 grams cetyl alcohol, 1 gram olive oil. For the soft oils, use about half fast-absorbing and half slow-absorbing oils. Once mixture has cooled to 40 C, add in your vitamin e oil, and mango fragrance oil and mix well. I would guess that the shelf-life is 6-12 months. To make a lotion thinner, deduct 1-2% cetyl alcohol or stearic acid. I would probably start with a 1:1 to give you an idea of which direction to take the experiment. If you use BTMS-50, my guess is that you should use the amount shown in the recipe, though the body butter may come out a bit thicker. Hi Marie, Phase B - caprylic/capric triglyceride, shea butter, coco-caprylate caprate, tocopheryl acetate, dicaprylyl ether, lecithin, glyceryl stearate se, isoamyl cocoate, myrstyl myristate, cetyl alcohol. Name of Recipe: Total Batch Volume: Ounces: Pounds: Milliliters: Grams: Ounces: Pounds: Milliliters: Grams: Ingredient: Amount: % Ingredient: Carbomer is added slowly to water and mixed at 2500 rpms. Glycerin is the most commonly used humectant, but some others are Honeyquat and sodium lactate. The first part of your question can be answered by comparing this post to the similar one I did on cetearyl alcohol.  In order to answer that question youd need to know a lot more about what was in the soup! Here again, if I remember right, lactic acid is commonly used for this in cosmetic preparations. Start small, take notes! No tack, fantastic slip. Pffft, thats not an ingredient list! When I massage these into my skin they do pretty much the same as in 3:1; the flakes sort of vanish into my skin when Ive worked them out into small enough bits. Stearic acid isnt a great alternative for cetyl alcoholyou can learn more about it here. I tried it, an although I liked the texture the skin feel felt waxy. 35-40 degrees Celsius add the preservative. , Sadly Ive got nothing for you, but maybe another reader will . Are they interchangeable in a recipe such as lotion? I dont recommend using a true wax as an alternative for cetyl alcohol. I really love these quick guide posts . Im afraid Ive never worked with it as a standalone ingredient so Im not really sure; Im only familiar with it as an ingredient in emulsifying waxes. Now you can transfer the body butter to jars. Running a finger over the top of it doesnt cause any noticeable meltit feels dry and almost powdery. It vanishes into the skin but never really melts. I dont work with dangerous or toxic ingredients! But buying in bulk may also be for you, if you have many, many friends and relatives. But she still says mine is the best. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Make it Up: The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care is now available at booksellers all over the world! the not so good: People often identify alcohols with drying out the skin or hair. I tried to cover everything I've learned. And I now have some repeat customers who say the same. Your work surfaces will be your stove and countertop--or, in my case--a worktable covered with a plastic tablecloth. Combine cocoa butter, mango butter, cetyl alcohol (or additional mango butter) , avocado oil and emulsifying wax in the bowl of a stand mixer or other heatproof bowl. Reply Candelilla and carnauba waxes could work in some situations as theyre thinner/glassier/glossier waxes. I tried 10 different ways to naturally color lotion. Mix thoroughly to ensure the cool down ingredients are fully incorporated into your body cream. (The only other difference is there is a small amount of moisturizer in BTMS-50--I forget what it is.) Recommended dosage: 2-10%, or 10-15% for a thick body butter. Here&#x27;s a general formula for creating lotion: 70-80% Distilled Water.  At first I wasn't sure I liked it, but now I think it's an improvement. Measure out shea butter using a digital kitchen scale into medium sized bowl. Also would balms/salves benefit from using this as part of the beeswax? Typically any sort of tiny dot or lump in a concoction is a solid butter going grainy, BUT there are no solid butters in that lotion AND Ive never had that happen in a lotionjust 100% anhydrous products. So, this is all very odd. You can use ordinary canola oil, sunflower oil, or olive oil from the grocery store, or fancier oils from the health-food store, such as hemp oil or grapeseed oil. This is fascinating, and such valuable information- thanks so much! If its way too little, then head in the opposite direction. I use 5% beeswax in my emulsifying sugar scrubs and I dont like the waxy feel on my skin after using it. Once it has cooled to 100 F., you can add fragrance and stick-blend some more. These specific ones are from a Canadian kitchen supply shop, so unless you live in Toronto thats not much help, but glass prep cups are widely available and super useful!  Very neat! Nope, e-wax (or Polawax) is not the same thing as Cetyl Alcohol. It&#x27;s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols.  How cool what a find your site is!  Who should use it: In general, anyone who doesn&#x27;t have an allergy can safely use cetearyl alcohol. You should definitely get some, cause where were using it, nothing else compares. Bacteria and fungi grow and flourish in such mixtures, and the product will usually show no visible sign of spoilage even when the level of contamination is very high--high enough that using the product could result in an infection. If you are a math nerd, you will notice that this recipe doesn't conform very closely to the ingredient proportions shown on the Cheat Sheet. If you were using urea in a skin-care product--and urea is actually quite a good addition, IMHO--it might be good to test the pH of the product and perhaps include an additive to reduce it. Please suggest. I have the impression you could preserve them by going up to 0.5% on the Liquid Germall Plus. Spray your gloves again. Spray each jar and lid with IPA and wipe with paper towels. If 1:1 is WAY too much, then start experimenting with thinning it out. This way you avoid damaging the more delicate liquid oils. This one is also super solidno finger denting happening here, and running a finger over the surface doesnt cause any melting. Its a total game changer! Melt the oils, cetyl alcohol, and BTMS-50 in one pan. (The heating and holding is to kill germs.). Cetearyl alcohol is probably still your best option, but the end product will be different. If your containers were from a good source they should be clean when you get them, so I doubt that is it. I will probably do this for lotions and body butters made for gifts and personal use. You can put them all in a box with a date on it, or you could save a dated file on your computer. Your email address will not be published. I must have been tired when I sent that message to you a while ago. Then, combine the water and glycerin in a separate heat-safe container. A creamy body butter bar I made for the last-year holiday season was to die for! Combine oil-based ingredients. In one of my earlier blogs, I showed you how to make a whipped body butter from a combination of oils and butter. The slip is divine; I can massage a nugget of it into my skin for upwards of thirty seconds and it just keeps moving in the loveliest, silky manner, leaving a smooth, non-greasy finish.  Hmmmmmm. 1% Preservative. Thanks, Sharon! Water, of course, has a neutral pH. Can this be used as a substitute for beeswax in lipstick making? Add water & oil phase ingredients into their own containers. Its also slightly translucent. As far as absorption goes, I've always found my product satisfactory. Stearyl = C18 (C18H38O) Cetearyl = A blend of both. I like working with the ceytl alcohol ..it is so nice in your Heavenly Cocoa LotionI have modded that recipe using different Essential Oils a few times already! Click here for more on using Incroquat BTMS-50 with hair care products as a conditioner. I melt the hard oils, let them cool, and then add the liquid oils. . Seriously, I feel spoiled. Anyway, the skinny on this is that BTMS-50 is better because: 1. The herbal teas would be a great addition too, but I am uneasy about making these for sale because of the preservatives issue. I will keep an ear out for any relevant information . Here is a listing of the absorption rates of several oils. Usage rate. In something like a body butter bar Ill often reduce the wax in a formulation and replace the lost thickening power with cetyl alcohol to give the end product better slip and skin feel. Its quite similar than Skinchakras sample in terms of look and action + far more easy to make and customize (used squeeze bottle). One of them is almost symptom-free during the summer, but when winter sets in, her legs, in particular, are so itchy that she often scratches them raw. Just bought some finally, last week. Heat either in a double boiler, or at 30% powder in the microwave, until completely melted. Perhaps I should do this experiment with different % in lotions. CurlBlog This website participates in the Formula Botanica, Baraka Shea Butter, TKB Trading, and Amazon affiliate programs; as an Amazon Associate, Humblebee & Me earns from qualifying purchases. Ceterayl alcohol and Cetyl alcohol are often used as co-emulsifiers. Love your blog and love your YouTube Channel. Mica colors were added to tint these. This experiment came to my mind when I designed and made cetyl alcohol thickened oilgel to milk scrub yesterday. Vegetable. Heat both containers over a water bath (or double boiler) until the waxes and butters have all fully melted. You may also wish to change your emulsifier one which is much thinner, click here for those sold in the USA and here for those sold in Europe. Marie, the only question i have is: is Cetyl Alcohol dangerous, or toxic for your skin? Uploaded by: hungjek on 12/28/2022 Ingredients overview If the product is going bad, though, cetyl alcohol isnt going to fix itand if its an emulsion it is too late to add any. 6 grams Germall Plus (This is 0.2%. Ps.. do you know of a written guideline for how much to added for different items? The cord will flop around all over the place and touch your disinfected stovetop, and who knows what else.). .btms-50 in one recipe and I Cetearyl Olivate Sorbitan Olivate as emulsifier in . The oil that has the highest percentage of GLA is borage oil. If I chose  BTMS 50, do I omit Cetyl alcohol? Looking forward to playing with it. Blend together until incorporated, then add in the sugar and mix until evenly distributed. Cetyl alcohol is a lubricant and thickening agent used in a variety of products. Im new to the skin care world and I have an Etsy shop. Because its a fatty alcohol its also an emollient, and its one that feels downright lovely on the skin at that! Since I cant get any suspension bases here. Now that you know those basics, we are ready to move on to more basics. . From here on out, you stick blend the mixture every ten or fifteen minutes while it cools. Heat Water Phase ingredients to 165 F. and hold for 20 minutes. Im glad you find these useful . Because we didn&#x27;t set out to make pit paste, deodorizing powder or DIY deodorant spray, we needed to introduce some key ingredients to keep the deodorant stick consistency stable: thick enough to apply . Faithful to Nature Shea Body Butter. I need to know how much cetyl alcohol to use for a 200ml leave in conditioner.  If yes, would the amount be the same (or very similar)? This is the most important step to prevent bacterial contamination of your batch. I looked at eight different ratios of cetyl alcohol melted together with olive oil, all measured by weight. Cetyl alcohol is a type of fatty alcohol having the chemical formula CH 3 (CH 2) 15 OH while cetearyl . Thank you Sharon! Stick blend every 10-15 minutes until mixture becomes emulsified and below 100 F. Add Cool Down Phase ingredients and stick blend well to incorporate. I cant wait to dig in! You will need to weigh the water phase both before and after heating and holding, and add enough distilled water to compensate for the water lost through evaporation. The size of your oil phase will also be a factor, but you havent listed that. How odd indeed.  The local store I use has stearic acid but not cetyl alcohol , Ill have to do one with stearic acid in the future but you could, too . How do you accomplish this? If you are new to making lotions and body butters, your first question will be, "What exactly are these ingredients Emmajane speaks of?". If your recipe is heavy on slow-absorbing oils, it will feel greasy. Add the cocoa butter. If you needed to give a bit of body to an otherwise liquid oil serum or massage oil, this could be the way to do it. Cetyl alcohol also helps stabilize emulsions, but it is not an emulsifier on its own. According to Susan, who has worked with it as a standalone, some of the formulas Ive shared using Olivem1000, to the similar one I did on cetearyl alcohol, Green Tea Conditioning Hair & Body Butter. Want to help support Humblebee & Me? Add the broccoli seed oil.  I hope this clarifies our question about thickeners. beeswax helps make a good barrier cream . Sterilization: Please ensure all equipment, containers, and utensils have been disinfected with 91% IPA before you begin. Now, two days after, the lotion has little, not sure how to call them, like broken pieces of sticks  Water (Aqua) (Eau), Isopropyl Myristate, Stearic Acid, Dimethicone, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Cetyl Alcohol, Trimethylolpropane Triisostearate, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Laminaria Digitata Extract, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax (Candelilla Cera) (Cire de candelilla), Glycerin, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Glyceryl . Now that we've covered the basics, I will now reveal my very own recipe. Cant taste anything, no wonder there, but it seems to be something crystallized. I see it most often in lotions and creams, where its usually used around 3%. Compare their appearance, texture and skin feel after another 24-48 hours. To substitute other oils in the above recipe, simply make sure that the total amount of soft oils is the same. Thank you very much! Whip using a handheld mixer or stand mixer until smooth and airy. When I scrape up bits with my finger nail they dont flake off; they clump together on the nail. It may be tempting to skip this step, but I strongly encourage you to do this . 1% Vitamin E. It&#x27;s a white, waxy mixture of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol, both fatty alcohols. So,this is a call out to all peeps who mayve worked w/those cetyl alcohol wax beads that Danica bought? I don't expect it to absorb instantly, though it does absorb fairly quickly without feeling greasy. Our Natural Deodorant Base: Cetyl Alcohol, Candelilla Wax, Tapioca Starch. If you want to be sure that you are not selling germ-laden body-care products, or giving them away to your loved ones, it is important to prepare them in an antiseptic environment. That mixture stayed a liquid for at least and hour and slowly solidify. 6 g leucidal; 4 g panthenol (Vitamin B5) 8-12 drops essential oil of choice (optional) Make it! If you work carefully, you won't need to spray the containers of oil and other ingredients. Also effective for use in other body and skincare applications, such as lotions and creams that are looking to impart long-lasting, intense moisturization that resists being rinsed off. Start with the emulsifying wax Olivem1000. A DIY emulsified body butter, inspired by The Body Shop&#x27;s iconic range. While this is true, cetyl alcohol is not an alcohol in this sense. The scents are Tahitian Vanilla (white), Peaches & Cream (pink), Tuscan Herbs (green), and Lavender (lavender). I weighed the ingredients into individual glass dishes, placed each dish in a hot water bath to melt everything through, and swirled to combine before leaving the dishes to set up for about two hours before beginning the poking and prodding. Please help ASAP my product are going bad. Happy making . There is probably a lot of goop on the outsides. Thank you!  They told me they would no longer be selling shampoo and conditioners, so got my hands on the ingredients, and when I saw the ingredients, I went to ask them for more specifics regarding each ingredient and I mean come on. Cetearyl Alcohol/Ceteareth-20. If cetyl alcohol is functioning as the main thickener in an anhydrous product, keep in mind that it will also be contributing to the silky finish of the product as well as the firmness. I see cetearyl alcohol sometimes available. DL-Panthenol is nice, but should not change the texture. Jeequat NDCS (INCI: Cetyl alcohol, behentrimonium chloride, cocamidopropyl betaine, sorbitan laurate) - cold emulsifier, natural (aka, ICE Conditioner) Jeesperse ICE-T CIS-2 (INCI: PEG-150 distearate (and) Cetearyl Alcohol (and) polyquaternium 37)  Hi Marie, I use stearic acid at 8% already, so how much should I increase it to to drop the beeswax and incorporate cetyl alcohol?  These shavings disappear into my skin when I massage them in, but in a rather odd way. Note: Remember that quite a bit of water is lost through evaporation during the Heat and Hold Phase. Thanks so much for this post. Details will be found on the suppliers MSDS data sheet. Cetyl alcohol is a saturated fatty alcohol derived from coconuts, with a melting point of 49C (120F), which still doesnt sound all that exciting, frankly. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. Everything that touches your ingredients (and finished body butter) needs to be germ-free. 0 - 6% . It doesnt thicken the product so much and its much easier to apply. Once these ingredients for your whipped body butter recipe have melted, remove from heat. For this sample we decided add 5% berry wax to the blend while lowering the oil concentration to 10% and keeping the mango butter and emulsifier the same. I weighed the ingredients into individual glass dishes, placed each dish in a hot water bath to melt everything through, and swirled to combine . Perhaps try this recipe? 40%. Print this page. Lotion and Body Butter Cheat Sheet, page 1, https://www.cheatography.com/emmajane/cheat-sheets/ingredient-ratios-for-lotion-making/, Lotion and Body Butter Cheat Sheet, page 2. Remove the container from the heat. Learn more about cetearyl alcohol here. ";s:7:"keyword";s:44:"how much cetyl alcohol to use in body butter";s:5:"links";s:431:"<a href="http://informationmatrix.com/ut6vf54l/caley-chelios-parents">Caley Chelios Parents</a>,
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