Thermal Behavior of Plant-Based Butters

Happy New Year! We are excited to see you at our first event of 2025.

February 11, 5:30-8:30pm

You are invited to attend our first meeting of 2025 with Benjamin Schwartz.  Starting his career with Estee Lauder, Benjamin has spent 20 years as an R&D Chemist working in personal care and cosmetic innovation. Managing the R&D lab for a Bay Area contract manufacturer he oversaw product formulation and scale up for a variety of startups, independents, and global brands.

Now as a Customer Innovation Manager for AAK, an international raw material supplier focused on plant-based lipids, he supports the technical and regulatory demands of the world’s largest personal care and cosmetic companies.

ABSTRACT:

Plant-based butters can have very different thermal behavior and structural stability due to their fatty acid and triglyceride compositions. These differences in behavior and stability can contribute to undesirable phenomena, such as blooming and syneresis. This presentation will briefly review how the various compositions and modifications of these butters can influence these phenomena or potentially eliminate them. We will highlight the difference between melting points and SFC curves as analytic tools that can help us distinguish the expected behavior of various butters and choose the correct one for a particular formulation.

 

This is an event you don’t want to miss! Register today! Space is limited.

Schedule:

4:00 pm – Board Meeting (Board Members Only)

5:30 pm – Networking

6:30 pm – Introductions and Announcements

6:30 pm – Dinner

7:00 pm – Speaker followed by Q&A

Menu:

Family Style in the Dough Room

Salad

Chop Chop Salad

Main Entrees

Grilled Chicken

Grilled Salmon

Sides

Mashed Potatoes

Broccolini

Dessert

Cinnamon Sugar Churros

In case of dietary restrictions, please notify us via email with your name so we can keep track of it. Please email restrictions to chair-elect@midwestscc.org.

We are looking forward to seeing you all!

2025 MWSCC Board