Your Own Home-Made Natural Skin Care Products 7 Great Recipes

by Kolbjørn Borseth of Aromantic

The following recipes can be easily made in your own kitchen using ordinary kitchen equipment:

Marigold Ointment

Melt 15 gr. Beeswax and 45 ml of vegetable oil of your choice in a double boiler (a saucepan immersed in a larger saucepan of water). Then add another 35 ml of vegetable oil to the mixture.

To this add 3 gr. of Marigold CO2 extract * and 25 drops of essential oils of your choice.

Pour into jars and label

*Alternatively you can soak marigold flowers in olive oil for 2 - 3 weeks and use this oil instead.

Children's Fizzy Bath Bombs

Mix together:

120 gr. Sodium bicarbonate (sift through a strainer to remove any lumps) with 160 gr. Citric Acid and cellulose.

Melt separately
15 gr. Cocoa butter and 15 gr. Turkish red oil
Add them to the powder and blend well
Add 2 - 3 ml of essential oils of your choice and finally some coloring (without water)
Now blend everything together well for 5 - 6 minutes using your hands or a kitchen blender

Form it into a ball with your hands and leave to dry. You can also use a mould to shape the mixture (cake paper moulds are good). Leave them overnight to dry on greaseproof paper.

Baby Massage Oils

Baby skin needs gentle and safe fats and oils such as those used for very sensitive skin. We have three classical oils for this purpose - Apricot kernel oil, Peach kernel oil and Rosehip oil. Always add a little E-Vitamin oil in your massage oil as its good for the skin and will help prevent it going rancid.

Baby Massage Oil No 1

30 ml Apricot or Peach kernel oil
30 ml Olive oil (Virgin)
39 ml Thistle oil (Starflower oil)
1 gr. E-Vitamin oil

Add a few drops of essential oils and mix together, bottle and label.

Baby Massage Oil No 2 (without the use of kernel oils)

40 ml Virgin olive oil
58 ml Evening Primrose oil
2 gr. E-vitamin oil

Simply mix together, bottle and label.

Luxury Massage Oil

50 ml Organic Apricot oil
45 ml Organic Rosehip oil
5 gr. E-Vitamin oil

Simply blend together then add a few drops of your favorite essential oil.
Bottle and label.

Soaps & Shampoos Base Recipes

(dr = drops. These recipes make 1 Liter)

NB: Use 4 ml Paraben when you use boiling water and 8 ml when you use an infusion.

Method (shampoos):

1. If using a herbal infusion, make a strong one first, as follows: Allow 3 - 4gr herbs per 100-ml water. Put in a stainless saucepan, bring to the boil, switch off heat, strain and allow to stand and draw for 20 mins (Use the maximum amount of paraben (0.8%) if you use a herbal infusion).
2. Measure up the Alpha and Sugar or Beta in a jug.
3. Measure up the boiling infusion or boiling water and pour it into the Alpha, Sugar or Beta mixture. Stir it together until it is dissolved in the blend.
4. Measure up the Omega and the Guar Gum. Heat it in a double boiler till it melts together (Make sure there is no powder left around the edges of the pot).
5. Pour some of the detergent and water mixture into the Omega/Guar blend a little at a time and stir. Then pour everything back to the rest of the mixture and stir together in cold water in the sink. Then cool it down.
6. When the mixture has cooled to 30°C - 25° C, blend in the Essential Oils or other active ingredients. If the shampoo is too thin, stir in a little sea salt till you get the desired consistency.

When making soap, dissolve the salt in luke warm water first. Then carefully pour the Alpha into the mixture and stir (don't beat) for at least 5 minutes until all of the ingredients are thoroughly mixed together and the soap thickens. Use litmus paper to test the mixture before adding Lactic Acid. If the pH is ok (5.5 - 6) you will not need to add Lactic Acid. If needed, add it at the end before adding Essential Oils.

In Part 3 Kolbjørn will explain how to make natural skin creams and gels, which can be turned into products designed specifically to address health problems such as cellulite, hemorrhoids, dry skin and sunburn.

Article reprinted with permission from www.aromantic.com" © Copyright Aromantic 2002-2004

About the Author:

Kolbjørn Borseth of Aromantic specializes in empowering people of all levels in making their own highly effective natural skin care products. Through his web site customers are able to access many free resources as well as being able to order all the raw materials, equipment and know-how required to make aromatherapy products, creams, shampoos, soaps and cosmetics.

Visit Kolbjørn's Natural Skin Care web site at: http://www.aromantic.co.uk