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Make your own face/body cream

Make your own face/body cream

This information comes from: Informed
Voice, Vol 3 No 4, Summer 2006, p 68 (‘Skin deep: cleanse without going broke!’)

Rose and marigold cream

This makes a very rich and healing cream, suitable for dry parts of the body. It makes the skin around the eyes soft and smooth, reduces wrinkles and dark shadows, strengthens nails and eyelashes, and heals small broken vessels and wounds. How does it sound to you?

Tip: Heating during preparation should be kept as short as possible.

You’ll need:

• 4 g beeswax
• 5 g cocoa butter
• 20 ml almond oil
• 3 large capsules vitamin E
• 3 large capsules evening primrose oil
• 20 ml pure rose water
•  ¼ tsp borax

1 tsp marigold tincture

You can buy these ingredients from a [health store, pharmacy, local organic markets]

Method

Stage 1

In a small container, melt the beeswax, cocoa butter and almond oil.

Stir very gently over a pan containing hot (not boiling) water. Stir all the time! As soon as the wax melts, take container away from the heat and cool a little.

Add the vitamin E and evening primrose capsules and stir in.

Tip: Pierce the capsules with a needle, sterilised with alcohol.

Stage 2

In a separate container, heat gently:

• 20 ml pure rose water
•  ¼ tsp borax
• 1 tsp marigold tincture (until the borax dissolves)

Do not boil. Alcohol in the tincture will evaporate during the heating, so the finished product will not contain any.

Add the rose water mixture to the almond oil mixture (Stage 1) drop by drop, stirring constantly.

You may decide not to use all the rose water mixture, but bear in mind that the cream will become a lot thicker when it cools.

Cool the cream quickly by placing the bottom of the container in ice-cold water. Add 10 drops of rose (best choice), frankincense or lavender essential oil and stir in.

Pour the cream in the sterilised small (20-ml) glass jars and close tightly.

For the skin around the eyes use this cream within six weeks. On the neck, hands and body you can use it within the next two months.

See related article ‘Recipes for masks and scrubs’ or watch the video

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Have a lovely day

Lucie

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