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Creams and Oils

Basic Cream

posted by Nancy Davis
Jan 21, 2016 343 0 0
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Adapted from Natural Beauty Alchemy by Fifi M. Maacaron

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce (30 ml) vegetable oil or shea butter
  • 2 tsp vegetable-rived emulsifier, like lecithin or glyceryl stearate
  • 10 drops (0.5 ml) vitamin E oil
  • 2 ounces (60 ml)  water or hydrosol, like rosewater
  • 20 drops (1 ml) botanical extract, like pomegranate seed
  • 3 drops rosemary oil extract or grape seed extract
  • 10 drops (0.5 ml) essential oil of choice

Instructions

  1. Melt butter or heat vegetable oil in double boiler over low heat. Mix in emulsifier and vitamin E, stirring continuously.
  2. Heat water phase in another double boiler. Add botanical extract if stable at high temperature or add later.
  3. Using a candy thermometer bring both the oil/butter phase and water phase to 170 degrees F.
  4. Turn off heat and slowly pour the oil phase over the water phase in a thin stream, whisking vigorously by hand or stick blender.
  5. Mixture should blend into whitish cream texture as it cools to 100 degrees F.
  6. Add extracts and essential oils, whisking until blended.
  7. Transfer to sanitized glass  jar, and cool to room temperature before putting on lid.
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