How To Make Hand Cream For Dry Skin
Use this homemade hand cream recipe with shea butter, cocoa butter, beeswax, and nourishing oils to heal and restore painfully dry and cracked skin.
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Yield (adjustable): 100 Grams (approx)
Ingredients:
Oil Phase
- 14 grams (0.49 oz) Wheatgerm Oil or jojoba, avocado, sweet almond, olive
- 6 grams (0.21 oz) Shea Butter
- 6 grams (0.21 oz) Cocoa Butter
- 2 grams (0.07 oz) Beeswax or Calendula Wax
- 8 grams (0.28 oz) Emulsifying Wax NF or Polawax
Water Phase
- 55 grams (1.94 oz) Lavender Hydrosol or Distilled Water
- 5 grams (0.18 oz) Glycerine
Cooldown Phase
- 1 gram (0.04 oz) Allantoin Powder
- 1 gram (0.04 oz) Liquid D-Panthenol Want to use D Panthenol Powder form, see notes
- 1 gram (0.04 oz) Vitamin E Oil
- 1 gram (0.04 oz) Preservative optional
- 10 drops (10 drops) Lavender Essential Oil
Equipment:
- Sterile Container and Lid or glass jars
Instructions:
- Weigh the oil, cocoa butter, shea butter, beeswax, and emulsifying wax into a heat proof jug or bowl.14 grams Wheatgerm Oil, 6 grams Shea Butter, 6 grams Cocoa Butter, 2 grams Beeswax, 8 grams Emulsifying Wax NF
- Weigh out the lavender hydrosol and glycerine into a separate heatproof container. If you are using D Panthenol powder stir this into the water at this point.55 grams Lavender Hydrosol, 5 grams Glycerine
- Make a water bath (or use a double boiler) by placing a small amount of water (about 1 1/2 inches deep) into a shallow flat bottomed saucepan, and bring to a low simmer on medium heat.
- Sit both the water and oil containers into the simmering water and leave them to melt. Heat until the waxes and butters are fully melted within the oil and both containers reach 70c.
- Once melted and heated, turn the heat off and remove them from the water bath.
- Now it’s time to combine your oil and water together, so whilst stirring pour the water base (hydrosol, and glycerine combination) to the oil base. This will produce a milky sometimes yellowish liquid.
- Mix/stir constantly until the temperature has cooled below 100f around 40c. Your mixture should be a nice creamy consistency by this point. You shouldnt need to whip it or use a hand mixer.
- Now its time to add the cool down ingredients.Place the container back on the scales, press the tare button and weigh the Allantoin powder into the cream and stir well. Press the tare again and add the liquid D-panthenol. Repeat the same with the vitamin E and preservative. Give the cream a good mix after adding each ingredient to make sure they are well combined into the cream.Add between 5 to 10 drops of lavender essential oil. If you have used Wheat-germ as your carrier oil you may notice the finished cream has a strong wheat-germ scent, so I’d recommend using the full 10 drops of essential oil here. The other carrier oils choices have a milder scent and although the lavender essential is great for dry chapped skin you also want it to smell nice and not be too overbearing so I’ll leave this to your personal preference within the range I’ve suggested (between 5 to 10 drops).1 gram Allantoin Powder, 1 gram Liquid D-Panthenol, 1 gram Vitamin E Oil, 1 gram Preservative, 10 drops Lavender Essential Oil
- Spoon into your sterile container with lid
Notes:
If you are adding a good quality preservative, this hand cream should have a shelf life of six months up to one year.
I'm using the liquid D- Panthenol in this recipe, to be honest, I prefer the liquid one as it’s added at the cooldown and you can feel the texture of the cream becoming creamier.
You can easily substitute for the powder but they do need treating differently. The powdered one is fairly heat-stable and should be added to the water phase before placing into the water bath (see step 2). The liquid one is not heat-stable so it needs to be added to the cool down phase once the cream is below 100f (40c)
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