Golden pens or how to make hand cream with your own hands

Hands are always in sight, so caring for them must be meticulous. This is especially important for women, because hands, like the neck, first of all give out the age of women. Basic hand care consists in the regular use of hand cream, which, by the way, can be easily prepared at home. Such a tool will in no way be inferior to a store one, and in some things even surpass it.

How to make hand cream with your own hands

Homemade hand creams are very effective, but you should initially realize that it will not be the same as you are used to seeing conventional store products.

First, let's talk about what ingredients make up the base for making creams and what is generally required for such a home laboratory.

Most often, the basis for the preparation of hand cream is taken:

• Butter. It helps nourish the skin, soften it and maintain its elasticity.
• Pork fat. It is an amazing skin nourishing agent. Its powerful effect allows the base to be applied to very dry and rough skin.
• Cosmetic oils: butters and liquid oils. We can talk about the benefits of cosmetic oils for a very long time and each oil has its own list of usefulness.
• Wax. An ideal base for creating a nourishing and strengthening cream for hands and nails.
• Glycerol. Known for all its moisturizing and emollient properties.
• Lanolin. A type of wax that is obtained from sheep's wool. It nourishes and softens the dermis well.

To fill the cream with useful elements, to make it as effective as possible, essential oils, honey, juices, extracts, and extracts are added to it. It is worth choosing additional ingredients based on their properties. For example:

• To create a moisturizer: decoctions and herbal infusions, patchouli and myrrh oils, glycerin.
• For a whitening agent: lemon oil or juice, milk, honey or parsley.
• For the nutritional composition, you need: honey, jojoba, coconut, sandalwood, avocado, egg yolk, sour cream and cream.
• For a caring and healing cream: oil from sea buckthorn, chamomile, plantain, tea tree, aloe.

When preparing homemade cream, it will be useful to know about some things:

• Do not neglect the use of alcohol and vodka. Many have heard that these substances cause dryness of the dermis, and in part it is. However, if you put it just a little, then no dryness will arise, but the alcohol itself will act as a good conductor of the cream's nutrients into the skin.
• Do not mix acids if you do not have sufficient knowledge in chemistry. Some combinations of acids can react and reduce the effectiveness of the prepared formulations.
• If your homemade cream contains heat-sensitive ingredients such as vitamin C or folic acid, do not heat them and add last.

You can mix the ingredients with improvised means, but it is much more convenient to use a manual cappuccinatore for such purposes. It is inexpensive, but it will provide a high-quality mixture of all components.

Now that you have mastered some basic knowledge, we suggest you prepare your first hand cream using one of the recipes below.

Hand cream recipes

• For very dry dermis. Mix half a glass of highly concentrated chamomile broth with a small spoonful of shea butter, the same amount of jojoba oil, and 4 drops of orange ether. Place in a water bath until the shea butter dissolves, mix everything very well and pour into a clean storage jar. To prepare a concentrated broth for 150 ml of pure water, take two large tablespoons of chamomile and cook the composition for an hour on the lowest heat. The finished broth is decanted and used in the recipe.
• Chocolate cream for dry skin. Dissolve a large spoonful of cocoa butter in a steam bath, add half a small spoonful of cinnamon and a couple of drops of orange ether to it. Mix everything well and pour into a jar.
• Revitalizing hand cream. In a water bath, melt a small spoonful of honey, add half a small spoonful of wheat germ and glycerin to it and drip 5 drops of juniper oil.
• Anti-aging hand cream. Combine half a small spoonful of vitamin A, vitamin E, a small spoonful of salicylic acid and a couple of drops of sandalwood oil. It is generally advisable not to store such a cream, but to cook it once and use it immediately, since vitamins, upon contact with air, literally lose their properties after a few hours.
• The simplest cream is prepared without using a steam bath. For him, you need to choose a high-quality baby cream, in which there is a minimum of chemistry and no fragrances, and then add 10-15 drops of vitamins D, E and A to it, mix everything and use in the usual way.
• Chamomile cream. Dissolve a couple of large tablespoons of ghee in a steam bath. Pour 1/4 of a glass of concentrated chamomile broth, a small spoonful of glycerin, 1.5 large spoons of castor oil and a couple of calendula drops into the melted butter. Mix everything very well and pour into a jar for storage.
• Healing cream with yolk. Beat the yolk of one egg well and pour in a couple of small spoons of any cosmetic oil and a small spoonful of honey. Knead everything very well to get a homogeneous mass and send it to the refrigerator for storage.
• A universal version of the cream, which very well looks after and restores not only the skin, but also the marigolds. In a bowl, combine 20 g of regular wax, 1.5 large spoons of lanolin and lycetin each, 2 large spoons of apricot oil, 0.5 small spoons of shea butter, 10 drops of lemon ether and a vitamin E capsule. Place the bowl with the prepared ingredients in the steam bath and the date is completely melted. After that, mix the entire composition until a homogeneous consistency is formed, pour into a jar.
• Pour half a glass of water into a bowl, add 1/4 glass of glycerin, a pinch of borax and 10 g of natural honey. Put on a steam bath for 15 minutes, then let stand for half an hour. The prepared composition is well absorbed into the skin, so you need to rub it dry.
• Grind about 40-50 g of almonds to the state of flour, add 250 ml of warm boiled water and a pinch of salt to it. Stir the finished composition, strain it through several times folded gauze. The cream is ready! It is absorbed quickly, leaves no residue, and is stored in the refrigerator for a long time.
• In a bowl, combine two large spoonfuls of quality butter and cream, place in a water bath and stir. When a homogeneous consistency appears, pour the cream into a jar, and add a couple of drops of lemon juice, mix.

How to store hand cream

The only disadvantage of home-made cosmetics is that it cannot be stored for a long time, since the products deteriorate very quickly. Homemade hand cream must be kept in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid and only in the refrigerator. The shelf life of the home remedy is about 7-10 days, after which it is worth replacing the cream. Make small amounts of creams, then it will have time to finish and you will not have to throw anything away.