Are you keen on hand making?

There is a challenge for you: cook your own piece of cosmetics, a natural face-, body-, hand-, … generally speaking an always useful cream with no artificial (toxic) additives.

Besides, your innovative products can become an opportunity for business, or gifts for the very beginning.

Ingredients (you can adapt the measures/amounts of ingredients in suitable shares):

• 31,6 g of oil (olive, sunflower; soaked St John’s Wort (macerate) turns the ordinary oil pink/red)
• 3,5 g of natural (bee)wax (another natural type of wax is also sold in tiny balls in pharmacy)
• 2-3 drops of essential oil (tea-tree and lavender are most recommended)

Proceeding:

A basic cooking equipment is needed (see DIY deodorant video). Heat the oil of your choice gently and mix in the wax (you can grate beeswax, it will bind with the oil sooner). Mix well and add 2-6 drops of essential oil of your choice. Pour the cream into glass jars before it cools completely. You can also recycle and use empty cosmetics’ packaging. For a longlasting use try to keep the cream in fridge since it contains natural ingredients solely.

We used the simple scholar lab equipment, but you can make it in your kitchen, at home. We put the cream in the dark glass to save it (the natural ingredients) from the sun light impact.

If you add a few grams of coniferous resin (spruce, pine) scraped from the bark of a tree during a walk in the woods, the ointment acts as an antibacterial, soothes minor inflammations and helps heal scars.