My Face Cream Recipe For Glowing Skin
This natural DIY face cream recipe is for mature or dry skin. It's often better for your skin than stor-bought, simple to make, and comes at a fraction of the price.
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Yield (adjustable): 100 grams
Ingredients:
Water Part
- 34 g (1.2 oz) Distilled Water
- 30 g (1.06 oz) Rose Hydrosol
- 4 g (0.14 oz) Glycerine
- 0.2 g (0.01 oz) Xanthan Gum
- 1 g (0.04 oz) D-Panthenol Powder
Oil Part
- 8 g (0.28 oz) Argan Oil
- 5 g (0.18 oz) Olive Squalane
- 2 g (0.07 oz) Cetyl Alcohol
- 3 g (0.11 oz) Shea Butter
- 5 g (0.18 oz) Olivem 1000
Cool Down
- 1 g (0.04 oz) Vitamin E Oil
- 5 g (0.18 oz) Hyaluronic Acid Gel Or use powder and mix your own, see instructions above
- 0.4 g (0.01 oz) Rose Geranium Essential Oil
- 0.4 g (0.01 oz) Ylang-Ylang Essential Oil
- 1 g (0.04 oz) Preservative I'm using Geogard ECT - UK its Preservative Eco
- 1 (1) Cosmetic Jar 4 oz
Equipment:
Instructions:
- In a heatproof beaker or container, mix the xanthan gum and glycerin with a flexible spatula until the gum has been dissolved.0.2 g Xanthan Gum, 4 g Glycerine
- Add the distilled water, rose hydrosol, d panthenol powder to the gum slurry and stir well. This is our water phase.34 g Distilled Water, 30 g Rose Hydrosol, 1 g D-Panthenol Powder
- Place the Argon Oil, Olive Squalane, cetyl alcohol, shea butter and olivem1000 into a separate heat proof container. This is our oil phase.8 g Argan Oil, 5 g Olive Squalane, 2 g Cetyl Alcohol, 3 g Shea Butter, 5 g Olivem 1000
- Make up a water bath by adding a few inches of hot water into a wide shallow pot. Sit both containers into the water and bring the water up to a gentle simmer. Stirring occasionally, leave the containers in the water until the water has been heated through and the waxes and butter has fully melted.
- Once heated, remove from the heat and pour the water into oils. Stir briskly for a couple of minutes to fully combine them. If you have a Norpro mini mixer, the metal blend attachment is great for small batches like this. After blending for a couple of minutes, the cream should have thickened and cooled. From this point, it's important not to use the mini blender as this would break the liquid crystal structures that are beginning to form. We do, however, still need to continue stirring, so transfer to a flexible spatula and continue mixing by hand until the cream cools to 40c (104f).
- Once our cream has cooled to 40 (104f) we can start to add our cool-down ingredients. Start with the vitamin E, followed by the Hyaluronic acid gel, stirring these in well.1 g Vitamin E Oil, 5 g Hyaluronic Acid Gel
- Next, add the Rose Geranium and Ylang Ylan Essential oils and finally, the preservative. Give the cream a good stir to make sure everything is fully combined.0.4 g Rose Geranium Essential Oil, 0.4 g Ylang-Ylang Essential Oil, 1 g Preservative
- Transfer to a suitable container ready for use.1 Cosmetic Jar 4 oz
Notes:
Unless otherwise stated all of these homemade face creams keep for about 2 days without preservative, and 12 months with preservative added.
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