Make Homemade Helichrysum Anti-aging Pink Body Milk Recipe
Milk for your health?... What about milk for your skin that is going to maintain your skin health. This recipe is about formulating a body milk that is not only going to be moisturizing as well as anti-aging ambrosia🏺! With the power of rejuvenating helichrysum essential oil and rose petal powder 🌹that gives it the pink color in the body milk. Learn to make homemade helichrysum anti-aging pink body milk recipe. Get your hands ready!
DIY SKINCARE
Much like lotions, body milk are lighter that can be easily be absorbed the skin. Body milk can restore moisture, softness and radiance. They are usually lighter and can be stored in a pump bottle. They can
Hydrates dry skin
Nourish skin barrier
Complements skin natural oils
Restore glowing skin complexion
Body Lotion vs Body Milk
In consistency both body milk and lotions are lighter than body creams. Body lotions are lighter than body milk. Body lotions contain more water content while body milk contain more oil content. Body milk use lighter carrier oils like grapeseed oil, rosehip oil, pomegranate seed oil, etc.
Selecting Ingredients
Passion fruit seed oil: It contains lots of anti-oxidants and essential fatty acids like lycopene, omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids. It a lighter carrier oil good for formulating body milk. It can improve the look and feel of dry skin.
Grapeseed oil: A very light carrier oil used in cosmetic formulations. It has high content of antioxidants like vitamin A, D and E oil. It can rejuvenate the skin and good for even acne-prone skin. Therefore this oil is such a good choice for making this body milk.
Vegetable glycerin: It is a good ingredient used in skincare formulation with humectant properties. It is good at hydrating dry skin and soothe skin with redness or irritation. Glycerin can be used by all skin types and a good choice for your body milk.
Stearic acid: It is a good emollient that can hydrate and moisturize the skin. Found in form of powder, it is derived from animal or vegetable fats that can be used to as part emulsifying our ingredients to make our body milk.
Emulsifying wax: Find a emulsifying wax that is natural and plant-based. It is usually pretty affordable and easily found in both online stores and convenient stores. Mostly is white with no detectable scent and melting point of between 149-155 Fahrenheit.
Aloe vera gel: Aloe vera gel is very gentle to any skin type including it in our body milk for improving your skin moisture, hydration, healing properties and other numerous benefits. Body milk can improve your skin by far
Vitamin E oil: This is a good preservative for your body milk. But also vitamin E oil can help to fight off free radicals on the skin cause by environmental elements such as the sun or smog in polluted cities that can fall on the skin.
Helichrysum essential oil: This essential oil can be used to reduce scar appearance. It is hypoallergenic, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties. It is your body milk's secret ingredient to get skin rejuvenation for glowing and radiant complexion.
Rose petal powder: This floral powder has many skin benefits but also is going to give you that pink shade that you want in pink body milk.
Ingredients
4 teaspoons of passion fruit seed oil
3 two and a half teaspoons of grapeseed oil
⅔ teaspoon of vegetable glycerin
⅔ teaspoon of stearic acid
3 heaping teaspoons of emulsifying wax
¾ cup of aloe vera gel
25 drops of helichrysum essential oil
¼ teaspoon of Vitamin E oil
½ teaspoon of rose petal powder
Prepare your tools and ingredients before making this recipe to reduce the downtime. Get a kitchen thermometer, heatproof mixing bowl, measuring spoons, double boiler or saucepan and measuring cups and any thing you may require. Gather all ingredients together too.
Instructions
Gather your ingredients: passion fruit seed oil, grapeseed oil, vegetable glycerin, stearic acid and emulsifying wax first.
Start making your recipe by measuring your ingredients and then put them into a glass measuring cup and sit this in a saucepan containing a few inches of simmering water.
Turn on the heat Stir occasionally, make sure your ingredients are completely melted. Test the temperature by using kitchen thermometer, check if it reaches 160-180 Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile measure your aloe vera gel in another glass measuring cup and place 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 phase ingredients in, the 2 and 3 step.
Then, pour the oil-phase ingredients into the glass mixing bowl and mix it with your hand-held mixer till creamy and no air bubbles.
You can now take out the measuring cup of aloe vera gel from the simmering water, and pour it into the mixture in the mixing bowl, continue blending for more 5 minutes. Make sure there all these ingredients are completely combined.
Wait the mixture to cool to 98 to 104 Fahrenheit. At this stage you can add vitamin E oil and helichrysum essential oil, drop by drop to the mixture continue mixing.
Now add your rose petal powder in the mixture, thoroughly blend till well combined. You'll see that the mixture is of a pink shade. Add more powder for deeper pink tones and reduce the powder for lighter pink tones.
Pour your mixture in a well sanitized pump bottle of 4 to 5 Oz and store it in a cool and dry place.
How To Use Your Anti-aging Pink Body Milk
After making your body milk, now what? You can use this body milk to moisturize and nourish your body and reduce signs of aging on the skin. So protect your body all day with this DIY body milk.
About me
Hello, my dear gorgeous! Welcome to my blog and learn with me as you walk in your skincare journey. I'm skincare enthusiast and a student. I like sharing my passion of beauty and skincare with the world. I like blogging, reading and binge watching YouTube vlogs and Netflix during my leisure time.
