Marigold hand protection cream
This marigold hand protection cream is my first recipe with soy lecithin and beeswax as emulsifiers, which was successful!
I used an infusion of marigold leaves in soybean oil.
Marigold petals have very good skin healing properties (my personal experience!) and is perfect candidate for repairing all small wounds and skin infections. Therefore it is a perfect ingredient for hand protection cream.
I personally have only a good experience and can confirm that what we say is true! That is why I decided it to be the base oil of my hand protection cream.
Recipe | |
Water phase | |
Rose water | 45ml |
Oil phase | |
Cocoa butter | 8g |
Marigold infused oil | 30ml |
Emulsifiers | |
soy lecithin granules | 2g |
or | |
liquid lecithin | 2ml |
beeswax | 5g |
Instructions
0) Make sure to sanitize well everything you will use in the process of preparation, including all the instruments and pots. For disinfection you can use either chlorine tablets or boil everything (what is heat proof) for 15 minutes. You can use also 70% alcohol. For maximal hygiene always were clean gloves. All these precautions are better than later watching your nice cream turning green, mainly if you don’t use any preservatives.
1) If you have lecithin granules, dissolve them in rose water – it will take an hour until they get wet through, then just mix them to dissolve completely. If you have liquid lecithin just mix it with rose water directly.
2) In water bath melt cocoa butter and beeswax with marigold oil. Beeswax needs around 64°C (147°F) to dissolve, pay attention to not overheat (e.g. >80°C, this may happen easily if you don’t use water bath). If you overheat cocoa butter, it will get grainy.
3) At the same time, heat your water phase (lecithin and rose water) to 70°C.
4) If necessary, transfer the oil phase into your stand mixer, if not, just use blender – you’ll probably need a very strong mixing in order to be successful making cream from beeswax and lecithin only! First start mixing the oils and than slowly pour the water phase in. Both phases should be around 50-60°C at this point. Blend until you reach an emulsion (cream consistency). I tried also hand mixing from the beginning, but it is not worthy the effort and the result is uncertain.
5) ATTENTION – It may happen that the water phase starts separating from the oil phase when you stop stirring before your cream cools completely down. Therefore, once your reach the emulsion, you can put the pot in cold water in order to accelerate the cool-down phase, but continue stirring. Do not forget to stir well until the cream is a room temperature, hand stirring is usually sufficient in this phase.
6) When finished, stir in your preservative (if any) and fragrance or essential oils of your choice.
7) Transfer you cream into cream pots.
TIP: Lifetime of a cream without preservatives is between two weeks and a month, provided you sanitize well keep it in the fridge. Some plants or essential oils have antibacterial properties and conserve even longer, rose water is one of them.
This entry was posted by evik on January 17, 2012 at 19:54, and is filed under hands. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.
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Ok, so my cream is ready!
I can't believe I made my own cream for like €1.50!
It came out nice, with consistency of real cream. I added some vitamins, that I know my skin needs and I'm happy with the result- even my husband loves it!
Recipe worth sharing 🙂
I hope it will stay the same and won't split over night (I read some people have that problem with homemade creams).
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#5 written by Emma 5 years ago
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#7 written by Amanda 5 years ago
Hi, Evik,
I really like reading your blog. I came here searching for information on how to use lecithin as an emulsifier… just want to note that in this recipe you treat liquid and granular lecithin as if they are interchangeable, when in fact, they’re quite different in terms of solubility. I tried adding liquid lecithin to my water phase and it was a disaster! Not soluble at all, even with heat. I am looking for more information on the composition of liquid v. granular lecithin and will get back to you. 🙂 Keep blogging!
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#10 written by Débora 4 years ago
Hi!
Thanks for sharing this recipe for hand cream, I tried it but with some alterations because I didn’t have all the ingredients. Isntead of marigold infused oil I used coconut oil, instead of lecitin I used lanolin, and because when i first tried it the emulsion separated I then added, in another try, pectin to stabilize the emulsion and it worked! =DI just have one question, what type of emulsion is this, is it W/O or O/W?
Thanks again =)
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#12 written by Cathy 2 years ago
Hi there,
I just made a batch and it’s beautiful. I altered it a bit, including a few more things, and it still whipped up and emulsified nicely! I am curious, though, if anyone has tried to incorporate glycerin into a batch? I will research more and try a batch soon, but just curious if anyone has any experience with it already. Thank you!!
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#13 written by evik 2 years ago
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#14 written by Annie 11 months ago
Regarding glycerin, as Evik mentioned, it could make the lotion a bit sticky. The other thing about glycerin to keep in mind is that it is a humectant which is fine if you live in an area that has relatively high humidity. However, if you live in a dryer type of climate, and if the air does not have much water to draw from, the glycerin will actually cause drawing the moisture from the deeper layers of the skin which is the opposite of what we try to achieve by putting on lotion! So, in essence, in a low humidity climate, the addition of glycerin to a lotion can actually cause drying of the skin. Just something to be aware of.
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#16 written by Rita 2 years ago
Hello Evik, I know this is an old post but hope you will help me.
I’m reading that the lecithin and bees wax are not strong enough to hold the emulsion.
Just wondering if you had problem with any separation and for how long did your cream
stay emulsified?
Also, I have powdered sunflower lecithin instead of granules. Do you think I can substitute 1:1
or should i search for the granules? There is also talk about borax and some say all 3 together is
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This is actually first place, that I found exact recipe for lecithin granules & beeswax cream.
I'm soaking lecithin now. Will let you know will it work for me 🙂