What is a home cream?
Face cream was used in ancient Egypt. It was made from natural ingredients, animal or vegetable origin. There were added milk, cream, medicinal herbs, various nutrients and even animal blood. The components were selected by trial and error, the aim of the searches was to select such components that can prolong the female beauty. In the 19th century, despite a huge selection of different facial care products, a fashion for home, natural face creams appeared.
Home cream for its components can be divided into:
- Moisturizing
- Nutritious.
Nourishing face cream, for any skin
2 tablespoons of red grapes, 10 tablespoons of water, 4 tablespoons of mineral oil, 1 tablespoon of Vaseline, ½ tablespoons of lanolin.
Soften lanolin, oil in a vessel with boiling water. We heat the water in a separate vessel and add the ingredients slowly, while stirring continuously. Add the juice of the grapes. Stir well until the mixture thickens. We store in the refrigerator for not more than a month.
Cleansing. A good effect is obtained if you use creams with components that have an astringent structure (raspberry leaves, bearberry, decoction of oak bark or plantain).
For a fatty skin type in the main composition, you must add green tea, calendula and chamomile. If the skin is prone to increased secretion of sebum, add a decoction of the bark of oak. To prepare a cream for dry skin, we put healuronic acid, it will help to keep moisture in the cells and perfectly cope with dryness.
In the preparation of creams in the summer and winter time has its own nuances. In winter, you need to add more essential oils, they can additionally nourish every cell of the skin. In summer, use fruit and vegetable ingredients that gently remove pigment spots and freckles, whiten the tone a little and clean the skin with fruit acids.
Nutritious cream
We will take 1 egg ¼ cup thick thick cream, they will serve as the basis of the cream. Add 1 teaspoon of honey, which will enrich your cream with antiseptic substances and vitamins and 3 drops of essential oil of tea tree. We store the cream in the refrigerator for no more than 2 or 3 days. Such a tool will successfully replace the night cream.
Home-made creams
Creams that are cooked at home are not inferior in quality to shop creams, the only downside is their short-term storage. But if you look into it, it's not a minus, but a plus, since the creams are made by themselves, do not have preservatives. We will tell you how to make a cream at home, easily, quickly and at no significant cost.
Producing this or that cream, you need to take into account the features of the skin for which you will make the cream. Skin is normal, sensitive, dry, oily and combination.
To the type suitable for the skin, we add vitamin E, which has a rejuvenating and fortifying effect.
Types of Skin
Dry skin requires constant nutrition and moisturizing. Sensitive skin gets used to one cosmetic remedy. Normal skin requires keeping it as it is. Combined skin requires special care. Oily skin requires the normalization of the activity of the sebaceous glands and its regular cleansing.
How to do?
Face cream at home is not difficult to do. For a start, we'll figure out how you can make a cream for dry skin. Dry skin needs to be moistened and nourished, so we will make a nourishing cream.
Let's make a nourishing cream for dry skin . To do this, yolk we will take a glass of thick fat cream, this will become its basis. Then add 1 teaspoon of honey and 3 drops of tea tree oil. This cream is used as a night cream, we store it in a cold place, best in the refrigerator, for 3 days.
Softening Cream for dry skin
We take 2 or 3 drops of essential oil ylang-ylang, 2 or 3 drops of essential oil of sweet orange, 10 grams of camphor alcohol, 50 grams of coconut oil.
Coconut oil is melted in a water bath, mixed with camphor alcohol. Add the oils, mix everything until a homogeneous mass forms. We store this cream in the fridge for a week.
Moisturizing cream
Take 1 gram of salicylic acid, ½ cup of water, 6 grams of gelatin, 80 grams of glycerin, 50 grams of honey. First, we moisten the gelatin in water and add to the swelled mass salicylic acid and glycerin.
Place the container in a jar of hot water and add honey. The mixture will cool, add 3 or 5 drops of ethereal mass of ylang-ylang. This cream is also used as a face mask. Just put a thick layer on your face and leave it for 10 or 15 minutes. Do not forget that the tool is stored no more than 7 days.
Cream for oily skin
For oily skin, a cream that has a dense consistency, when in contact with the skin, this cream softens. Preparation of the cream will take 3 minutes.
It will take 10 grams of beeswax, 10 grams of drops of rose oil, 40 grams of almond oil, 40 ml of rose water. All the ingredients are stirred and applied to the skin. This cream normalizes the work of the sebaceous glands.
Cream for sensitive skin
This cream has the composition: 2 tablespoons cocoa butter, 4 tablespoons of rose tea, 90 ml of almond oil, 6 drops of sandalwood oil. We mix everything and let the cream stand for several hours in a cold environment, then it will be ready for use.
Cream for combination skin
For such skin, we recommend a cream that is stored for a long time. Cream, camphor alcohol, water infused with lemon peel, linetol, 1 yolk, castor oil and lemon juice. All the ingredients are mixed, the proportions are added by eye. After applying this cream, the skin becomes stretched and smooth, the skin color is normalized, and acne is prevented.
Toning cream for neck and face for any skin type
Take 10 drops of lemon essential oil, 10 ml of glycerin, 30 g of beeswax, 10 ml of jojoba oil, 50 ml of almond oil, 50 ml of avocado oil, 200 ml of boiling water, 1 teaspoon of dried chamomile.
Take the chamomile and put it in a cup, fill it with boiling water. We insist 15 minutes in a covered form. Strain into another cup. In a saucepan made of heat-resistant glass, we heat on a slow fire 3 kinds of oils and we dissolve beeswax. Remove from the fire and drop by drop into this mixture of 30 ml of warm infusion, until the cream turns into a thick mass. Add the essential oil and glycerol. We put the contents in a jar in a jar and store it in a dark place, no more than 14 days.
Cucumber Cream for the face, for any skin type
Take a pinch of borax, 1 teaspoon of glycerin, 4 tablespoons of cucumber juice, 5 tablespoons of vaseline oil, 4 tablespoons of almond oil, 3 tablespoons of wax.
Wax and oil is melted in glass heat-resistant dishes, while in another separate vessel we heat the borax, glycerin, cucumber juice. When the contents of both containers melt and heat, add 1 drop of wax, oil and water, stir continuously. We remove and mix until the mixture thickens, and then it will cool. We store the cream in a closed jar in the refrigerator, for 3 or 4 days.
Avocado cream for normal to dry skin
This cream is suitable for beginners, it is easy to prepare and does not require a large number of ingredients, is a classic oil cream. It has a regenerating, moisturizing and softening effect. Suitable for dry, fading, thin and normal skin. The cream melts on the skin, it is pleasant to use.
Take 3 drops of essential oil of rosewood, 2 drops of essential oil of patchouli, 2 teaspoons of shea butter, 1 teaspoon of jojoba oil, 1 teaspoon of avocado oil, 2 teaspoons of macadamia oil.
Melt the water in a bath of shea butter, add the liquid vegetable oils, mix and add essential oils. The finished cream is placed in the refrigerator. We store the product in the refrigerator.
We got to know how to make a home face cream. Thanks to these simple recipes, you can make such a home cream, which for sure you will like.