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The first step to make your own skin care products might be
said to clean up your kitchen sink spic and spam, this is only
meant as a joke although it could be said that not long ago
chemists involved in the production of cosmetics had not much
more than what we call an old kitchen sink. Luckily we have
progressed from there onwards. However in spite of all our
modern technology, and clean sterile rooms in the end it's
really not much different. If you care to invest the time and
are interested you can make your own skin care products.

Here are the basics. In a lot of ways it's all the same – all
the back to Roman times. On the other hand with modern
technology advanced skin care products and ingredients
definitely have become more sophisticated, specialized and
precise. All a lot more difficult.

First on board you need an emulsion component. For an emulsion
all you basically need is those three ingredients: (1) Water.
(2) Oil. (3) Emulsifier. To be sure that your product has no
bacteria or other growth forms – distilled water is recommended
as the basic water liquid component.

Another type of skin care products are those products that can
be said not be of an emulsion nature .These non emulsion type
skin care products are based on oil only. Those are very simple
to make, all you need is grease and oil of different consistency
and you mixes them to arrive at your favorite consistency. The
better known is Petrolatum, Lanolin and cholesterol sold under
the trade name Eucerin. The composition is not exactly but very
close to 70% Petrolatum, 20% Lanolin and 5% Cholesterol. The
reason cholesterol is use in that formulation is to reduce the
quantity of Lanolin. The benefit of lanolin on your skin is the
cholesterol but pure Lanolin at the time this formulation vas
developed, (a century ago) Lanolin was smelly but the
cholesterol when extracted from it was not, but Cholesterol was
more expensive. I think you get my point. Cost is the number one
concern of the skin care industry. They have to pay for
expensive ads!

Now back to making I and cooking of your home made skin care
products. Where do you start and when do you start to "cook" or
"bake" the ingredients? : First you weight all your ingredients,
put them all in a container and slowly heat them to
approximately 75 degree Celsius (equivalent to 175 degrees
Fahrenheit) and keep turning it. A spoon will do the trick just
fine! After everything is melted let your concoction cool.
However pay attention to turning your production. Keep tuning it
until it solidifies… ET voila! You have made your first face
cream.

Now the fun and creativity starts. You can change the oil base
to whatever you choose or prefer.

Whether it is for personal preference along, color, consistency
of the end product or for your health concerns – it's all your
choice. What fun and creativity to be able to do this. The full
range of choices is yours. Now you can change the petrolatum
which is really bad for your skin by Cocoa butter, Lanolin for
Avocado or Olive oil until you gets the consistency you want.
You can experiment with any kind of product as long as they are
all fat. One solid one liquid two solids five liquids whatever
suit your fancy.

Now the more complex products: Emulsions. As I said before
there is three mandatory ingredients Water, Oil there literally
thousands of ingredients, again Avocado, Almond, Cocoa Butter,
Shea butter, Olive oil, Lard, ( lol) it as been done, after all
what is Mink oil? Mink oil is oil extracted from mink cadaver
after the removal of their fur. they cook them up and skim the
oil from the top. Same as Emus Oil, Pig oil is called Lard. I
think I could cook with lard. My mother did it, but I will not
try Mink fat! No way José! Anyway try to stay away from animal
and mineral oil by products. The third ingredient is the
emulsifier is absolutely needed to bind oil and water.

People who learn to cook often find or are taught know that egg
yolk itself is a good emulsifier, it will bind water to oil in
sauces, but are not a very good choice for Skin Care. However
egg yolk is not a good or wise choice to skin care. There are
much better choices of products and ingredients available.

A better choice is Wax. You can purchase emulsifying wax and
use between 6% to12 percent of it, or use the two or three
component usually found in it: Stearic acid, 60% 40% Cetearyl
Alcohol use 6% to 10% of that mixture in the oil phase. Yes, you
have at least 2 phases: the oil phase where all the fatty
ingredients in a container where they will be heated to
approximately 75 degrees Celsius and the water phase where the
entire water soluble ingredient will be heated at the same
temperature. The water phase is where you put all your Vegetable
extract, Plants, Flowers extracts etc. Be careful extracts are
usually dark green yellowish brown and they will very fast color
your cream. Also they might be heat sensitive and cannot be
heated, in this case you will have to wait until the whole thing
cool down before you can introduce them in your formula. Ok I
went ahead of myself, let me back track. Now you have your Water
and Oil phase ready you heat them both to 75 degrees Celsius and
you mix them together and turn them continuously until the whole
thing cool down to 40 Celsius. And now is the time to ad your
heat sensitive product. At this point you can also ad your
preservatives and stabilized your formulation with 0.5 to 1% of
Triethanolamine, (TEA) it make the cream smoother.

If you like to cook you will love to make your own Skin Care
product. If you run in to any difficulties post a message on my
Blog. Enjoy.

About The Author: Mike A.I. Helgi Cosmetic Consultant Chemist
http://www.mmedsolution.com http://www.thskinsociety.com
http://www.morgellonsresearchfoundation.com

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