Cold cream

So I made my own version of cold cream. Cold cream has a very long tradition in skincare and has been used for everything from nightcream to shavingcream to skincleanser. In vintage recipes they added borax but it seems a bit harsh as a skincare additive so I excluded it. 

Oilfase:

49% vegteble oil  (Use what you have. I used 22% grapeseed, 5% cacaobutter, 10% jojoba, 8% cameliaoil ,4% black seed oil)

10% beeswax

10% emulsifier (5% vegetal(Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Glucoside), 5% basemulgator(glyceryl monostearate))

Waterfaes:

19% water

8% glycerine

2% urea

1% salt

Coolingfase:

1% preservative (phenoxyglycerine)

Weigh the ingredients for the water and oilfase in separate heat-resistant beakers. Weigh the waterfase and beaker so that after heating you can replenish the water that evaporates. Place them in a water bath and heat until all the solids are liquefied. Then pour the waterfase into the oilfase and mix with a handmixer until cool. 

Weigh the ingredients for the coolingfase and add to your lotion when it's started to cool down about 40 degrees celsius. 

Mix thoroughly. 

Drying flowers

Since it's late spring or early summer all the flowers are blooming and wanted to see if I could dry some of them to later make them into jewelry. So far I just put them in with some silica gel and I will see if that works. I think I will also try and press some of the flowers. 

So far I have not had any success with dandelions in silica gel so I will try and press those. 

Updates will be coming when I find some good ways of preserving them.