Natural Skin Cream Preserves Your Skin's Beauty

Natural skin cream is well-within the reach of the home crafter. Although you would think that making creams and lotions at home is extremely difficult, this is not the case at all! If you can handle melting some waxes and oils together, and are sure that you can use a hand-held blender to mix these with some water and fragrance--you have all the skills that you need to make creams at home that help ward off the signs of aging.

While making natural skin cream is not a difficult thing, that does not mean that you can be careless when making it. Cleanliness is imperative when crafting creams and lotions. All equipment, including measuring cups and stirring equipment should be sanitized prior to use. The easiest way to accomplish this is by making a sanitizing solution with bleach. You only need one teaspoon of bleach per quart of hot water. Thoroughly wash all your equipment, then leave it in the sanitizer for at least five minutes before beginning the lotion process to ensure that you have killed any microbes.

The very best thing about making natural skin cream is that you can totally customize it for consistency, color and fragrance. If you would like a very thick cream, use a little less distilled water in your recipe. On the contrary, if you would like it thinner instead, simply add additional water to the mix. If you want your product to be colored, use some soap making colorant to tint it to your desired shade. For a delightful fragrance, try making some custom blends of essential oils to add to your product. You could choose to make a lovely pear ginger blend or red grapefruit and ylang ylang to make your finished product extra special.

Natural skin cream has no preservatives, so it is very important to either make your cream in a very small batch that can be used up quickly, or add a natural preservative if you want to keep it longer than just a few days. A few vitamin E capsules squeezed into your blend adds antioxidants, and helps to preserve your lotion. Another option is to add some high-proof grain alcohol(vodka) to your lotion blend to act as a preservative. Please note that this last treatment will do nothing to preserve the crafter, so don't drink your preservative faster than you can add it to your product.

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