Making face cream

This morning when I was getting ready for the office, I realized I needed a good face cream.  I can never find what I like in the grocery store.  Today I made it a point to get started on a face cream recipe.  If I need one, don’t others need one a good one too?

I went sort of tropical with the ingredients.  I included mostly Mango Butter with Palm Kernel Oil and Coconut Oil.  I put in some stearic acid to make it thicker to the touch and of course, some vitamin E for good skin care.

I have it mixed up and cooling down.  Making lotion is really pretty easy.  It is mixing oils with water is all.  Emulsifying wax holds it all together.    The only tricky part is getting the right ingredients in the right combination so it feels like you want it too on the skin.

Here is a recipe for making lotion on the Soap Crafters website.  What I’m doing today is making a face cream, which is a lot different than a lotion recipe because it has a lot less water.  That particular lotion recipe has been really popular, though.

When I get this face cream recipe perfected, I will put it up on the Soap Crafters website for sale in bulk.  All you’ll need to do is add scent and color if you want color.  It will have all the required antimicrobial in it already and it will be ready for packaging and resale.

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.  Right now it is cooling down and I’m stirring it once in a while.

Pam

UPDATE:

Finished Face Cream

All done!

It turned out great.  I have some samples of it here in the office if you are local and want to pick one up.  When you come in to pick up your order, let me know you want a jar to try out.

It is really for moisturizing that extra dry skin.

Now I have to figure out what scent I want in my personal jar I’ll use at home!

Summer Pear Soap Recipe

This soap looks gorgeous and smells divine. Our delicate pear scent is teamed with pureed pears, pear juice and nourishing oils for a soap that is a treat to use. A must-have for those who like fruity smells that are not overly sweet.

The Key Oval soap mold
1 pound Basic Soap Noodles® Shredded Soap
1/3 cup whole milk
5 drops of Soap Crafters grass green liquid color
3 drops Soap Crafters yellow liquid colorant
enough Soap Crafters jade and cola liquid color to paint with
¾ oz Soap Crafters fragrance
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon avocado oil
1 tablespoon soy bean oil
1/3c unsweetened pear juice
1 ½ tsp pear puree
You can get this one of three ways;
1)Get a ripe pear, squeeze it and puree some of the fruit
2)Buy a can of Libby’s canned pears that are packed in 100% pure juice. Use the juice and mash up some of the fruit.
Or
3)Get some baby food. They should have pear juice and pears that are unsweetened.

Warm up your oven to 200 degrees.
Measure out 1/3 c of the milk and add the oils to it.
Pour this mixture over your shredded soap which you have placed in a n oven safe dish.

Cover and let it melt for 45 min to 1 hour.

While it is melting, add the GRASS GREEN color and lemon yellow color to the pear juice. Mix until thoroughly blended.

After 45 minutes to 1 hour, check your soap. It should look a little drier than usual because we’re not adding as much liquid as we usually would. Sir it well. If it looks fully melted at this point, continue to the next step.

If not and it is still really dry, add 1 tablespoon of milk and stir again. Let it melt for another 15 minutes. If it isn’t super dry, but still needs to melt a bit, stir well and let melt for another 15 minutes.
After soap is fully melted, add ½ the fragrance, puree, and juice/color mixture and blend well. After it is well mixed, add the rest.

Scoop into molds.

Put in a small amount of soap at a time and press the soap into the details of the mold. It is kind of like spackling a hole in the wall. You want to fill the spaces so there are very few air pockets. It helps to use a rubber spatula that has been coated with oil. After it comes out of the mold, use the jade green color to paint the leaves and use the cola to paint the stem. If you want, you can also use the cola to add the little brown spots that you find on real pears.

Put mold into freezer for 1-3 hours.  Pop soap out of mold and leave it on a shelf or rack to air dry for at least 4 weeks.  Then it will be ready to use.

If you have some soap left over that didn’t fit into the mold, pat it into soap balls and leave these out to dry also.  They do not need to go into the freezer.