DIY face cream for normal skin

Hello everyone, my beloved DIY green tea face cream has been over for a while now and I urgently need a new one. In this period, my skin face is not particularly dry so I decided to make a cream for normal skin. If you are curious to know how to formulate a cream click here. This new cream will be formulated using fewer ingredients and choosing the fragrance through an Instagram pool. In the latter, I asked which fragrance to use between vanilla and lavender and with 56% lavender won against vanilla.

But let’s start

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Gabi

What you will need for our DIY face cream

The ingredients for 100g are:

Phase A

• Ionized water 76g (find it here)
• Glycerin 5g (find it here)
• Xanthan gum 0.4g (find it here)

Phase B

• Emulsifier 5g (I used olivem 1000) you can find it here
• Avocado oil 2.5g (you can find it here)
• Sweet almond oil 2.7g (you can find it here)
• Jojoba oil 1.5g (you can find it here)

Phase C

• Gel aloe vera 5g (you find it here)
• Tocopherol – Vit E 1g (you can find it here)
• Preservative 0,6g  (you can find it here)
• panthenol 0,3g (you can find it here)
• lavender fragrance 6 drops  (you can find it here)

Procedure:

Phase A

• In a glass jar, weigh the Xanthan Gum and add glycerin. Mix the two ingredients with a teaspoon and leave it for a while.
• Warm up the distilled water and, once it’s hot, pour into the glass jar containing Xanthan gum and glycerin, and mix them.

Phase B

• In a second glass jar, weigh all the ingredients listed as Phase B such as oils, butters, and emulsifiers. Warm them up in a microwave or in a bain-marie till they are melted.

Phase A+B

• Pour the phase B into A (both warmed).
• Mix the two phases using a hand blender and let the cream cool down.

Phase C

•  Add all the ingredients from Phase C into the cream and mix them.

Now your cream is ready to be used. I used an old container that I previously washed and labeling with cute adhesive tapes.

I also tried to use it as a night cream given the presence of the lavender fragrance. In fact, lavender has relaxing properties that also help against stress and insomnia.

Short break:

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Gabi