How To Make A Gentle Face Scrub
With just a few simple ingredients, you can come up with a decent homemade face scrub that will leave your skin feeling so much fresher.
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Yield (adjustable): 50 grams
Ingredients:
- 24 g (0.85 oz) Coconut Oil 48%
- 13 g (0.46 oz) Apricot Kernel Oil 26%
- 9 g (0.32 oz) Cetyl Alcohol 18%
- 2.5 g (0.09 oz) Jojoba Beads 5%) (for face
- 0.5 g (0.02 oz) Vitamin E Oil 1%
- 0.5 g (0.02 oz) Preservative 1%) (optional
- 0.5 g (0.02 oz) Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil 1%
- 1 pinch (1 pinch) Pink Mica optional
- 1 (1) Cosmetic Jar 4 oz Glass, aluminimum or PET pastic
Instructions:
- Start by weighing your coconut oil and cetyl alcohol into a heat-proof beaker.24 g Coconut Oil, 9 g Cetyl Alcohol
- Make up a water bath by adding a few inches of hot water into a wide shallow pan (a saute pan is excellent for this). Place the container into the water and bring the water up to a gentle simmer. Leave the beaker in the water until the coconut oil and cetyl alcohol has fully melted.
- Once melted remove the oils/wax from the heat and stir in the apricot kernel13 g Apricot Kernel Oil
- The oils/cetyl alcohol will need to be stirred until you have a nice creamy consistency. This may take a while. I usually work in intervals, stirring for a minute then resting for a minute.You can also speed the thickening process up by placing the beaker into an ice bath for a few minutes. An ice bath can be made by placing a little cold water and some ice cubes into a bowl that's big enough to stand the beaker in. This speeds up the processes immensely, but you will need to stir continually. If you feel the cream is becoming too cold you can pop it in and out of the ice bath as needed.
- Once the oils have begun to thicken and have cooled to 104f (40c), it's time to add the vitamin E, preservative, and essential oil. Stir well making sure they are well combined.0.5 g Vitamin E Oil, 0.5 g Preservative, 0.5 g Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil
- Next add the exfoliant, in this case I'm using jojoba beads, stir until the beads are distributed evenly within the face scrub.2.5 g Jojoba Beads
- It's now time to add a pinch of mica, don't get carried away here, as we only want to give the finished face scrub a subtle hint of color that will not transfer or stain your skin.1 pinch Pink Mica
- Finally, transfer to a suitable container. To avoid any unwanted condensation, make sure it's completely cool before popping on the lid.1 Cosmetic Jar 4 oz
Notes:
- This can be synergized for different skin types. For instance, the apricot kernel oil can be swapped for something that is more effective for your own unique skin. Whatever liquid oil that your skin adores will work just fine.
- You can swap the exfoliant, but it will definitely change the consistency of the product. If you want to avoid changing the product consistency, opt for a different exfoliant that is similar to jojoba beads - i.e. non-absorbent. A good example would be rapadura sugar or bamboo powder.
- A variety of different factors can influence consistency. The main issue we have is the climate and weather. Someone living in a very hot climate may find their homemade face scrub is much looser. If you find that your homemade face scrub is too thin, simply up the amount of cetyl alcohol. Up it by 2-3% first and go from there, increasing until it’s a more reasonable consistency. Conversely, the opposite is also possible. If you live in a very cold environment, you may want to make them a little looser. However, we have found this to be much less of an issue than when traveling to hotter climates.
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