How to Make Cherry Blossom Brightening Hand and Body Cream at Home
Today, I continue to do my body cream series, I wrote about many other DIY recipes to help the body skin. This body cream is going to help brighten your skin complexion. It contains cherry blossom🌺 extract than has powerful compounds than can help your skin glow. Join me and how to make cherry blossom brightening hand and body cream at home.
DIY SKINCARE
Let's make a hand and body cream that can brighten your skin complexion. If you have dull complexion, skin exfoliation is key but to keep the results you must have a good moisturizer that can make your skin radiant and glowing. In this recipe, cherry blossom extract has powerful anti-oxidants that can penetrate skin deep layers and bring softness the skin. But also cherry blossom has a sweet, alluring and ethereal floral scent that can leave your skin smelling nice and long-lasting.
This body cream is self-absorbing to the skin and does not leave residue on the skin. It feels light on the skin surface. Your skin can be very hydrating and moisturizing at the same time.
Read More: How to Make Creamy Moisturizing Hand Cream at Home
Selecting Ingredients
Olive oil: One of the beloved oils with strong reputation in skincare industry. Olive oil has anti-oxidants like vitamin E, iron potassium and other phenol compounds that can boost skin collagen production and reduce hyperpigmentation by far.
Cocoa butter: Remarkable for its chocolatey scent. Cocoa butter is very useful base for this cream. It can reduce appearance of stretch marks and hyperpigmentation on the skin. This will cause your skin to glow and have a very even complexion.
Vegetable glycerin: Also known as glycerol. It is a common fatty acid found in both animals and vegetable fats. It is very good humectant that can bring skin hydration. And we all know that a well-hydrated skin can glow and be radiant. This is the reason to include it in this recipe.
Stearic acid: These are white color fatty acid in form of powder or flakes derived from plants. I'll be using this substance as an emulsifier in this hand and body cream . You know for oil-phase and water-phase ingredients we need a binder and that's when stearic acid comes to play.
Emulsifying wax: This is the most important ingredient in your recipe. You can not formulate this cream without it. Made from vegetable fats, it acts as a emulsifier used to bind oil-phase and water-phase ingredients together to make an emulsion and that's your cream.
Cherry blossom extract: This extract can help to reduce appearance of dark patches of the skin. If you are looking for a brighter skin complexion then the extract can help to unveil your skin radiance plus it also smell good.
Vitamin E oil: This oil in its purest form has a heavy consistency. It has anti-oxidant properties that can fight off free radicals and in turn reduce oxidative stress caused by pollution and other harsh elements. It also a good preservative.
Beeswax: Beeswax contains anti-oxidants and compounds that can help to nourish the skin. For a vegan-friendly recipe, use candelilla wax, carnauba wax or any other herbal waxes you can find online or any DIY store.
Aloe vera gel: It is good at maintaining skin moisture, protecting the skin from effects of free radicals, brighten the skin complexion and slow skin aging process. Including it in your cherry blossom hand and body cream for your skin.
Ingredients
2½ two and a half teaspoons of olive oil
2½ two and a half teaspoons of cocoa butter (you can use other natural butters but avoid butters from hydrogenated oils)
¼ teaspoon of vegetable glycerin
1 teaspoon of beeswax/candelilla wax
¾ teaspoon of stearic acid
2¼ heaping teaspoons of emulsifying wax
⅓ cup of aloe vera gel
25 drops of cherry blossom extract
½ teaspoon of Vitamin E oil
Now collect your utensils and tools like mixing bowls, designated jar, measuring spoons, glass measuring cups, double boiler or saucepan, kitchen thermometer and hand-held blender.
Instructions
Let's start making this recipe by getting olive oil, cocoa butter, vegetable glycerin, beeswax, stearic acid and emulsifying wax NF and place them on your kitchen top.
Next measure out the above ingredients and put then into a glass measuring cup and sit your cup in a saucepan containing a few inches of simmering water and turn on your heat. You can use a double boiler instead.
Stir regularly until your ingredients are completely melted. Check the temperature by using kitchen thermometer, dip it in the melted mixture and look if it reaches 160-180 Fahrenheit (71-75 Celsius) 72 Celsius temperature is sweet spot.
Next measure your aloe vera gel in another glass measuring cup and sit this in a saucepan of simmering water and heat it to temperature of 160-180 Fahrenheit.
Now take out your first measuring cup from the simmering water, the measuring cup that you had put oil-based ingredients in, the 2 and 3 step.
Then, pour the oil-based ingredients into the glass mixing bowl and mix it with your hand-held blender in a low to medium speed till well-combined.
You can now take out the measuring cup of aloe vera gel from the simmering water, since its already heated and pour it into the mixture in the mixing bowl, continue mixing with a hand-held blender for other more 5 minutes. Make sure that all these ingredients are combined well.
Wait the mixture to cool to 98 to 102 Fahrenheit (38 to 40 Celsius). At this step you can add vitamin E oil and your secret ingredient, cherry blossom extract to the mixture and blend again for another 5 minutes.
Pour your mixture in a well sanitized container of 4 to 5 Oz and store it in a cool and dry place.
How to Use Your Hand and Body Cream
After your done taking shower pat dry and then after applying body serum seal it with fragrant cherry blossom hand and body cream before applying your sunscreen. These are few benefits of using cherry blossom hand and body cream like
Brightens your skin complexion
Reduce appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
Make your skin soft, moisturized and hydrated
Increase radiance and glowing skin
I will say you'll love this skincare recipe so enjoy!
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