Anti-Aging Face Cream
hey everyone it’s laura from the blog artworlyhouse.com and today i’m going to share with you a very simple anti-aging face cream so this face cream is so easy to make and you only need a few ingredients to whip it up this is going to be the best nightly daily cream that you can use on your face to really help with skin imperfections like wrinkles fine lines age spots and all the fun things that go along with aging so for this recipe i’m using avocado oil beeswax coconut oil and shea butter now as always there are a few substitutions that you can make here which i’ll go over that at the end along with some q a like frequently asked questions i know i’m gonna get so we’re just gonna jump right in and make this recipe so if you’re here for the recipe here it is it’s very easy like i said now we’re making it straight in a glass mason jar instead of using a double boiler i’m just going to put everything into this glass mason jar because i’m not going to be whipping this up like a lot of my lotions and then we’ll put it right into a pot of water to melt it and it’s going to be ready to go so to start off we’re just going to pour a quarter of a cup into a mason jar quarter of a cup of avocado oil sorry did not even say that avocado oil and then i’m going to add in one tablespoon of beeswax now this is some beeswax that i had that i already shred it just to make the melting process go away a little bit faster then i’m adding in two tablespoons of regular coconut oil and then i’m going to add in one tablespoon of shea butter okay so that’s all i’m going to do for now we’re going to add in the rest of this after it melts so i just have a pot of water here that it has about a i don’t know probably a cup or two of water in it and i’m just gonna stick the jar into the pot and i’m going to turn this on and allow the water to simmer up kind of boil a little bit and melt these ingredients and then we will come right back and add in the rest of the stuff now that everything’s melted i just removed my jar from the saucepan and we’re going to add in the rest of the ingredients so i did let this cool slightly you want to do that because you don’t want to put essential oils in or vitamin e oil in when it’s extremely hot because that can make it lose its therapeutic benefits but we don’t want it to cool completely because this is going to harden back up slightly and so we want it to be still a liquid so let it cool a little bit and then you can add in your essential oils so my favorite oils for the face and also for anti-aging are lavender and frankincense and also rose essential oil now rose essential oil is a very expensive prized oil and so if you don’t have that one you can leave it out or you can actually substitute it for geranium geranium and rose have a lot of similar properties and geranium is a lot cheaper so i am going to do just six drops total in here because it’s for the face i’m not going to put a ton in and so i’m gonna do three drops of the lavender and also three drops of the frankincense then i’m going to add in about five drops of vitamin e oil if you don’t have a dropper top on your vitamin e oil you can just do about like half of a teaspoon this way it’s just easier for me to get it in and then i’m going to add in about a half of a tablespoon of arrow powder now aero powder really helps this cream to thicken and also to take out some of the oil and just absorb to make this non-greasy and then we’re just going to stir this all up really well and allow this to harden now if you want to whip this and change the texture of this to be more like a whipped body butter instead of a cream after it is hardened you can whip it with a hand mixer now i like it better just has this cream which is why i just make it straight in the mason jar there’s no dishes if you’ve ever made anything with beeswax or even like coconut oil and stuff you know that it’s hard to clean the dishes so this is awesome because you just make it straight in the jar and it is done ready to go so i’ll just allow this to sit at room temperature for about 24 hours and it will be ready to use now if you live in a really hot climate you might have to put this in the refrigerator in order for it to become that creamy solid form so that’s it guys super simple to make now i told you i do a little q a here at the end because i get a lot of questions on things like this and so for the shea butter you can substitute that for either cocoa butter or mango butter now i don’t technically like cocoa butter for me on my face i like mango butter or shea butter better they are just a little softer a little lighter and so i like to use the shea butter and the mango butter so either one of those works well if you do substitute it you can do equal parts so that one tablespoon will still work as far as the carrier oil goes i used avocado oil i find that one to be really good on my face it’s a very high proven oil to work well for anti-aging but if you prefer to use an almond oil or any other type of vegetable based oil you can as well it kind of depends a little bit on your skin type and so if you want to change that up you can now the beeswax is what’s going to make this be more solid and firm and so depending on the texture that you like your face cream to be you can add more or less beeswax i found that tablespoon in this amount is the perfect amount for the cream and the texture that i like so again you can change that up if you want to um what else is in here coconut oil that’s kind of a must you don’t want to use fractionated coconut oil you want to use that regular coconut oil again that’s what gives it its creamy texture and then the essential oils and the vitamin e oil are optional you don’t have to add those in but i do find that that lavender frankincense rose or geranium those essential oils are really really good for helping with fine lines wrinkles age spots and so since this is an anti-aging face cream i like to add those in now same goes with the air root powder you do not have to put this in if you don’t want to i just find that any recipe that i make with coconut oil i like to add in the arrow powder just to kind of help with that um oily feeling of it it still works really well but i like to add in that airy powder kind of makes it more non-greasy so again that’s optional um also how often do you use this this is a good nighttime anti-aging cream to put on your face after you have washed it you used a facial toner or whatever your routine is then you can end the night with putting on this facial cream and it works really well does help against that anti-aging so this anti-aging cream is meant to be used daily at night time you can put it on in the morning but it can affect your makeup maybe when you’re putting your makeup on afterwards because it is a cream and so i like to do it at nighttime so i don’t have to put it on the morning before putting on my makeup this recipe will last up to one year if you store in a glass container with an airtight lid there’s no water in here all of these ingredients are shelf stable so this will last for a year and you don’t need a lot whenever you use it so i just do about a dime size amount you know just swipe your hands in your fingers make sure your fingers are clean so you’re not getting any type of like bacteria or anything in the jar and then just massage it onto your face all over and that’s the best way to apply it i think that answers all the questions i hope you guys enjoy this recipe like i said it’s really really easy to make i have made a ton of different skincare products here before especially for the face face washes moisturizers serums all kind of things so i will link that playlist down in the description box below if you want some more recipes and ideas and as always thank you so much for watching my video if you’re new here please hit that subscribe button i get out new videos every week on essential oil education share lots of 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