Homemade Face Cream

Throughout my childhood I had eczema, which if you’re unfamiliar with it, generally means that your skin is drier than a normal persons. It manifests itself in very different ways in different people, though. Some get rashes, others don’t, I for example got tiny little scabs that looked like mosquito bites. All over. Being a kid, I’d of course pick at them which didn’t help much when it came to making them go away. During especially bad bouts people would think I had chicken pox, but nope. That was just my skin. Luckily, it went away with puberty (which happens about half the time with childhood eczema), and my skin was pretty great. Until I started wearing make-up, which is when general redness started appearing and break outs started happening, and I started to notice how easily I scarred. After something healed on the surface, a purple mark would remain behind for a couple months. After puberty the breakouts generally went away, but my skin still scarred really easily and the redness was still an issue. I just figured it was all genetics and there was nothing I could really do about it. But once I started eating more seasonally, I also started to think about what I was putting on my face everyday.

I used the generic drug store stuff for make-up and nicer department store face washes and creams, but had never really thought to read through the labels. The more I started researching about skincare, though, the more I kind of started to freak out about the harsh soaps, preservatives, and oil-stripping compounds I was putting on my face. Our skin breathes and absorbs materials, especially when it’s dry, so whatever is applied and rubbed into it goes into our bodies. About a year and a half ago, I decided to switch to all-natural make-up and took a stab at making my own face cream through a tutorial on Mountain Rose Herbs‘ website. It was surprisingly easy to make, and honestly a lot like making aioli. And because I was making it myself, I was able to specifically buy ingredients that had calming effects on the skin and helped neutralize scarring, making a customized skincare product for myself, like Mountain Rose Herbs’ organic olive oil, organic avocado oil, beeswax,  organic cocoa butter, organic mango butter, lavender hydrosol, and rose hydrosol. And the best part was that the recipe made enough lotion to last a year.

Because there are no preservatives, however, it does need to be refrigerated during the storage time. So I usually pour my cream into several jars and keep the jars I’m not currently using in the refrigerator until I am ready. This keeps the ingredients from deteriorating and preserves the beneficial vitamins and minerals that can become less effective when exposed to warm temperatures or sunlight for an extended period of time. And after the initial investment in the ingredients, you don’t have to buy face cream for a few years (when you buy them in bulk you can make more than a year’s worth of face cream).

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Homemade Face Cream

I recommend sourcing the ingredients from MountainRoseHerbs.com, they have a ton of organic and sustainanly sourced ingredients and ship pretty much everywhere.

Author Eva Kosmas Flores

Ingredients

All-Purpose Face Cream

• 1 cup assorted gentle vegetable/nut oils like olive oil
• 1/4 cup cocoa butter or other similar nut butter
• 3 tablespoons beeswax
• 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon concentrated oils like pomegranate seed oil, rose hip seed oil, etc.
• 2 teaspoons vitamin E oil
• 1/2 cup hydrosol like rosewater, etc.
• 12 to 15 drops desired essential oils

Soothing Rose & Jasmine Face Cream

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup sunflower seed oil
• 1/4 cup avocado oil
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon cocoa butter
• 1 tablespoon shea butter
• 1 tablespoon kokum butter
• 1 tablespoon mango butter
• 3 tablespoons beeswax
• 1/4 cup lavender hydrosol
• 1/4 cup rose hydrosol
• 1 tablespoon tamanu oil
• 1 tablespoon pomegranate seed oil
• 2 teaspoons vitamin E oil
• 1 teaspoon rosemary herbal oil
• 4 drops white willow extract
• 4 drops rose essential oil
• 3 drops jasmine essential oil
• 2 drops vanilla essential oil

Instructions

All-Purpose Face Cream

1. For the general face cream, combine the gentle vegetable/nut oils, cocoa butter, and beeswax in the top of a double boiler over low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the beeswax has melted completely and the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
2. Once cooled, empty the mixture into a blender and remove the center hole from the cap, so that you can add ingredients while the blender is running. Turn the blender on to medium speed and add the concentrated oils and vitamin E oil. Then add the hydrosol in a thin, steady stream. Allow it to continue to blend, over time it will turn into a thick, pudding-y consistency which can take a few minutes. Once it reached the right consistency, add the essential oils and allow to blend for another 30 seconds.
3. Turn the blender off and empty the mixture into three separate sterilized 4 ounce glass jars. Allow to cool to room temperature before screwing on the lid and refrigerating. The cream that you're currently using can be left at room temperature, but store the creams that are not yet in use in the refrigerator to preserve them and their beneficial compounds. Enjoy!

Soothing Rose & Jasmine Face Cream

1. For the soothing jasmine & rose face cream, combine the olive oil, sunflower seed oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, cocoa butter, shea butter, kokum butter, mango butter, and beeswax in the top of a double boiler over low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the beeswax has melted completely and the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
2. While it is cooling, whisk together the lavender and rose hydrosols in a small bowl until combined, set aside.
3. After 15 minutes have passed, empty the olive oil mixture into a blender and remove the center hole from the cap, so that you can add ingredients while the blender is running. Turn the blender on to medium speed and add the tamanu oil, pomegranate seed oil, vitamin E oil, and rosemary herbal oil. Then add the hydrosol mixture in a thin, steady stream. Allow it to continue to blend, over time it will turn into a thick, pudding-y consistency which can take a few minutes. Once it reached the right consistency, add the white willow extract, rose essential oil, jasmine essential oil, and vanilla essential oil and allow to blend for another 30 seconds.
4. Turn the blender off and empty the mixture into three separate sterilized 4 ounce glass jars. Allow to cool to room temperature before screwing on the lid and refrigerating. The cream that you're currently using can be left at room temperature, but store the creams that are not yet in use in the refrigerator to preserve them and their beneficial compounds