In my earlier post about facial care, I promised to put up some recipes. Well, here they are! 5 great homemade face cream recipes for you to try! You can use them to make your own facial cleansers and creams. I’ve added some tips to use essential oils to personalize it to your skin type.
#1 Cleaning Lotion For Normal Or Greasy Skin
- 150 ml natural cleaning lotion of your choice (without perfume, dyes or any other additional compounds)
- 10 ml or 2 teaspoons bitter orange blossom water (rose water works too)
- Essential oils: palmarosa, geranium, and lavender. 5 drops each
- Essential oils: ylang-ylang, grapefruit, and common juniper. 2 drops each
Add the lotion and the orange water together in a bowl and mix. Add essential oils and stir until homogenized.
#2 Cleaning Lotion For Dry, Sensitive Or Mature Skin
- 6 g beeswax
- hot water
- 120 ml seed almond oil
- 60 ml rose water
- 10 drops of rose absolute essential oil
Add the wax to a bowl that can withstand heat. Put the bowl in a cooking pot containing hot water. Heat on a medium fire and stir almond oil through it. Make sure you heat the mixture well. Heat the rose water in another bowl. Drip the rosewater into the oily mixture under constant stirring. Keep stirring to cool the mixture down and add the 10 drops of rose essential oil. Pour lotion into an airtight container or jar. This is a solid, rich cream but gets softer when applied to the warm skin.
#3 Light Moisturizing Day Cream For All Skin Types
- 5 g beeswax
- 15 ml or 3 teaspoons of rosehip oil and sweet almond oil
- 2 vitamin E capsules or vitamin E oil
- 12 ml or 2½ teaspoon rose water
- 3 ml or ½ teaspoon honey
- 4 drops of neroli, sandalwood, and palmarosa essential oil.
- 2 drops of jasmine essential oil.
Heat beeswax together with rosehip and sweet almond oil. Open up the vitamin capsules and add this to the mixture. Mix and heat rose water and honey and drip to the oily mixture. Cool down under constant stirring and add essential oils.
Excellent homemade face cream to apply in the morning. The rosehip oil has skin-renewing benefits and the sweet almond oil hydrates your skin. Light and nourishing.
#4 Rich Moisturizing Night Cream For Dry, Sensitive And Mature skin
- 4 grams beeswax
- 20 g cacao butter
- 15 ml or 3 teaspoons of jojoba and sweet almond oil
- 10 ml or 2 teaspoons of rosewater and rosehip oil
- 5 ml or 1 teaspoon glycerine
- Rose otto and incense essential oils. 8 drops each.
- Geranium and carrot seed essential oil. 4 drops each
Heat the wax in a bowl of hot water and add the cacao butter and jojoba and almond oil, stir until you have a smooth, hot mixture. Heat rose water and glycerol to the same temperature and drip it into the oily mixture. Cool mixture under constant stirring and then add the essential oils.
Makes an excellent night cream for the more sensitive skin types and battles the drying effects of cold wind, sun, and central heating.
#5 Rich Moisturizing Night Cream For Normal Or Greasy Skin
- 150 ml natural moisturizing lotion of your choice (without perfume, dyes or any other additional compounds)
- 5 ml or 1 teaspoon rose water
- 5 ml or 1 teaspoon avocado oil
- 4 drops of Roman chamomile, rose absolute, neroli and lavender essential oil
- 3 drops palmarosa and rosewood
Add the lotion, rose water and avocado oil together in a bowl and mix. Add essential oils and stir until homogenized.
You can try to make a moisturizing lotion yourself but it is quite hard to get them right. Mild base lotions are not expensive so I prefer to buy them and add essentials to it to improve its benefits.
Thanks for reading. I hope this information was helpful. Until next time!
Amy Goodrich
Crazy cat lady, life and food lover, certified biologist, and holistic health coach.
