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Secrets to Making Homemade Skin Cream Based on Lecithin

Today I’m going to share with you my secret for creating homemade skin cream based on lecithin with the help of the “cold” method. I love this method because you don’t need to heat the oils and water in order to mix them as in the traditional method, so it will save you time. You can simply add all of the ingredients to the bowl at once and mix, and there is no need to add them step by step, which makes it very simple. So now, here is a little about the benefits of lecithin, and later, I will reveal to you the secret recipe:

How does lecithin benefit the skin?

Lecithin is extracted for cosmetic purposes from the egg yolks of chicken, sunflower seeds, and soybeans. More widely available is soy lecithin, which is a mixture of 65% natural phospholipids, 30 to 35% soybean oil, a small amount of glycerol, ethanolamine, galactose, B vitamins, biotin, and choline.

In skin care products, lecithin is used as an active additive and an emulsifier. As an active additive in cosmetics, lecithin is used for softening, toning, and moisturizing, which will promote the restoration of the barrier function of the skin to prevent moisture loss from the deeper layers of the complexion. Lecithin is especially effective in combination with vitamins A, D, F, B1, B6, and PP.

Lecithin promotes the deeper penetration of fat and biologically active substances into the epidermis. It also reduces inflammation and irritation in the skin, stimulates cell regeneration, improves skin texture, and prevents the formation of wrinkles. The lecithin is an antioxidant, which also protects the skin from the negative effects of free radical damage.

Lecithin can be used for all skin types. As an active additive, it should be used in 0.5% to 3% concentrations, and as an emulsifier at 3% to 20%.

In skin creams, lecithin can be somewhat sticky and oily, but it absorbs well. Some do not find the smell of lecithin pleasing, but the smell will disappear after you add a few drops of essential oil.

So that’s it for the theory, let’s prepare our working space for the practice!

Here is the recipe on how to use lecithin for your beauty purposes:

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Practical Tips on How to Make Your First Facial Cream

As I’m planning to update you with some homemade skin cream recipes, I decided to post some general rules on how to whip up a homemade cream. Just follow the rules, and I’m sure you will become a great cream-maker.

Background:

Creams are semi-solid emulsions, which is a mixture of oil and water. They are categorized into two types: oil-in-water (O/W) creams composed of small droplets of oil dispersed in a continuous aqueous phase, or water-in-oil (W/O) creams composed of small droplets of water dispersed in a continuous oily phase.

To make a homemade skin cream, you need three components:

• Water Phase: water, hydrosol, juice, milk, etc.
• Oily Phase: vegetable oil, animal fats, lanolin, silicones, waxes, etc.
• Emulsifier: special emulsifier for creams or wax, lanolin, lethicin, etc. The cream with a special emulsifier is easier to make, has a better texture, and creates a more stable emulsion so that oils do not separate from the water.
• Additionally, the cream may also contain: preservatives (which I never use in my creams), active ingredients, extracts, essential oils, etc. In order to stabilize the emulsion (so the cream will not break), you can use less emulsifiers and instead use gel formers, alike xanthan, guar, or thickeners. More about beauty ingredients in green ingredients section.

Keeping Homemade Facial Creams:

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Highly Effective Homemade Facial Cream From Pimples

My previous homemade facial cream from pimples was based on beeswax and it turned out to be great though it was very thick. So my today’s facial cream i decided to make on the base of lanolin so I could receive more gentle consistency.

Please check my Yahoo Flickr page if you want step by step guide with photos here .

Preparation time: about 30 minutes

Difficulty: 2 of 5

Ingredients:
* 2 teaspoons of lanolin
* 4 teaspoons of calendula oil
* 4 teaspoons of almond oil
* 10 teaspoons of chamomile tea
* 2 drops of tea tree essential oil
* 2 drops of lavender essential oil

Instructions:
Melt lanolin in a double boiler. Add calendula and almond oils to the melted lanolin. Then slowly fill the chamomile tea. Shake the medley thoroughly with a mixer, so water and oils could make up a paste. Shake till cream get cold. Received medley pour out to a glass jar. If you are going to add essential oils to the cream, jar should be made of a glass. After you pored out the medley to a jar and add 2 drops of tea tree oil and 2 drops of lavender oil.

hurray! Cream came out to be very gentle and rapidly soaking.

P.S. Please check the Facial Cream Category for more homemade cream recipes.

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Step By Step Guide To Creating Facial Cream For Oily Skin

Today I had a huge craving for making my own homemade facial cream, since mine has finished yesterday. So I made up these cream for oily/combination prone to blemishes and acne skin. That just turned out to be amazing enough to share with you! So here we go!

Preparation time: about 20 minutes

Difficulty: 2 of 5

Ingredients:
* 10 grams of beeswax
* 1 tablespoon of shea butter (ignore, if you don’t have it)
* 2 tablespoons of rose water
* 2 tablespoons of almond oil
* 10 drops of tea tree oil
* 10 drops of lavender essential oil

Instructions:

Step 1.
Take two double boilers, mixing utensil, table spoons, mixer and cream container. Before you begin to make a homemade product, make sure that you thoroughly clean the area that you are working in, and wash your hands completely. Make sure to also wash and sterilize tools that you may use.

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Homemade face Creams for Dry Skin [Updated 27.04.10]

Cacao Homemade Cream

Ingredients:

* 1 teaspoon of cacao butter
* 1 tablespoon of almond oil
* 1 teaspoon of olive oil
* 1/2 teaspoon of emulsifying wax
* 1 teaspoon of beeswax
* 2 tablespoons of rose water

Instructions:
Melt all the ingredients in double boiler, except of rose water, pour in it when everything is melt completely. Then shake all with a mixer till everything will get cool completely.

Smoothing Cream for Dry Skin

Ingredients:
* 50 grams of margarine
* 10 grams of beeswax
* 1 tablespoon of olive oil
* 1 teaspoon of A vitamin oil
* Some of nettle, rose, parsley leafs

Instructions:
Melt beeswax, margarine, olive oil and vitamin A in a double boiler. Then add some of finely chopped nettle, rose and parsley leafs. Mix the medley thoroughly and shake with a mixer.

Moisturizing natural homemade face cream for dry skin

Ingredients:
* 1 tablespoon of chamomile
* 1/2 glass of water
* 1/2 teaspoon of glycerin
* 1 tablespoon of butter
* 1 teaspoon of camphor oil

Instructions:
1 tablespoon of chamomile add to 1/2 glass of just boiled water, cover and leave for one hour. Then strain and add 1/2 teaspoon of glycerin.

After, melt 1 tablespoon of butter, mix it with 1 teaspoon of camphor oil and chamomile liquid (already mixed with glycerin).

Final step. Thoroughly mix, or even better shake all with mixer. After put cream into small jar. This homemade cream can be held in the fridge for 5 days.

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