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Saturday, January 1, 2011

How to Make Geranium Almond Face Cream

Geranium almond face cream is full of essential ingredients and is perfect for mature skin. It is made basically from ready available and accessible materials. One can make this face cream from a fraction of the price of what he or she can buy from a high end store. Another thing to also realize is that, if you have a face oil cream, it's stable so it will skip for up to a year in a cup board without being refrigerated, however if you making a face cream, the moment you add water, it becomes unstable and therefore very skeptical to bacteria. So the good news here is you don't need any preservatives, therefore it wont be necessary to store the cream in a refrigerator.
The following is a list of ingredients one needs to make Geranium almond face cream.
* Cocoa butter
* Beeswax
* Apricot kernel oil
* Jojoba Oil
* Rose petals
* Boiling water
* Rose infusion
* Emulsifying wax
* Rose hip oil
* Vitamin E oil
* Geranium Oil
* Amber or Blue Storage containers

Though from the above glance, you are going to need a bunch of ingredients, one might think that it this might be expensive, but essentially it not. Compared to purchasing a ready made Geranium almond face cream from a boutique store.
Procedure
The first thing one need to do when making Geranium almond oil is a double-boiler. A double-boiler is basically a steel bowl floating on a pot of boiling water.
To begin you need to melt the waxes. Now the waxes that you are using are natural from nature.
1. Into the floating bowl, put 2 table spoons of cocoa butter.
2. Put in 2 table spoon of beeswax.
3. The next ingredient to follow is 2 tablespoon apricot kernel oil
4. Finally into the hot water floating bowl pour Jojoba oil.

Important: Make sure the beeswax melts completely.
Now after that, what you are going to do next is an infusion. So in a measuring jar, add 2 tablespoons of rose petals. Put in 1/2 cup hot boiling water.sip for 30 minutes.
Remove the hot water floating bowl and set it aside, now replace its place with a clean bowl. Into the new bowl add 2 table spoon of emulsifying wax, followed by 2 tablespoon rose infusion. Make sure they all melt.
Remove the bowl and ensure the two bowls are in the same temperatures. Always make sure this is the case for a best results. Now mix the contents in the two bowls together and thoroughly. From here add 1 tablespoon rose hip oil, then 1 tablespoon vitamin oil.
Finally add 20 drops of geranium oil, and there you have it. Geranium almond face cream is ready for use. Store the cream in brown bottle to avoid reaction with sunlight.