Have you caught onto the latest trend of making your own skincare products?
Due to an increase in people wanting to care for the environment and focus on sustainability, 2019 has been a year where more and more people are hopping on the trend of making your own skincare products.
There could be any number of reasons for doing this; having the knowledge of the actual ingredients we're using on our skin, a desire to reduce the amount of plastic packaging waste we create, or just the simple pleasure of making something for ourselves.
A simple search on the internet can bring up any number of skincare product recipes for anything from soaps to sun tan lotion, face cream or even home cleaning products.
As with any food recipe, it’s important to invest in high-quality ingredients, but this still means that you can make some fabulous lotions for a fraction of the price of “normal”, store-bought skin products.
Try the Nugent family body butter recipe today and make use of your digital scales
As a passionate DIY maker herself, we asked our CEO, Jessie Nugent, to share her favorite skincare recipe that she makes at home with her daughters.
Jessie started making her own skincare products about a year ago, after coming up short when looking for natural products that were not mostly water and where she could identify all the ingredients.
Ingredients:
- 115g Mango Butter
- 115g Shea Butter
- 115g Cocoa Butter
- 20g Avocado Butter
- 10 drops Raspberry Seed Oil*
- 10 drops Broccoli Seed Oil*
- 25g Jojoba Oil*
- 25g Sunflower Oil*
- 25g Hemp Seed Oil*
- 25g Argan Oil*
- 10g Rosehip Oil*
- 30 drops Rose Geranium Essential Oil
- 30 drops Clementine or Orange Essential Oil
Step 1: Using a double boiler, melt your butters. Weigh out the ingredients using a digital scale, then add all bold-text ingredients above that are marked with an asterisk. Stir thoroughly to combine. Remove from heat. Add essential oils and stir thoroughly.
Step 2: Put the bowl in the refrigerator until your lotion starts to set. You don’t want it to be too firm. It should look firm but mush easily when touched. When it reaches this consistency, use a hand mixer and whip it into a fluffy, whipped body butter consistency. From here you can portion in to containers, and put them back in the fridge to set completely.
It’s a good idea to keep full containers for future use in the refrigerator. Any open ones in-use can be left in the bathroom, out of direct sunlight.
"I use this on both face and body and it works best when applied right after the shower," said Nugent. "Since it is oil-based it can feel a bit heavy, so remember a little goes a long way. I use ethically-sourced and organic ingredients whenever possible. This recipe has been tweaked many times over and will probably continue to change. My family has found this to help heal spots/sores as well as other scratches and scrapes on the body."
DIY skincare products: the essential tools
- Digital scales
- Thermometer
- Double boiler
- Electric hand blender
- Heatproof measuring cup
- Glass jars for storing the creams and lotions
The important qualities to look for in a digital scale for this task include the ability to measure accurately to 0.1g, the ability to use a TARE function so that you can add different ingredients to the same bowl, and a wipe-down surface if possible.
We recommend the Vortex or Element digital scale for this recipe. Both have 0.1g accuracy and a suitable capacity with a wide platform to accommodate your mixing bowl.
Try out our DIY body butter and tell us all about it
Want to try our DIY skincare recipe at home? We would love to know how it worked out for you, and which Truweigh scale you were able to use as part of the method.
Order your digital scales direct from us here or visit our website if you are interested in a wholesale solution. Send us a snap on one of our social channels and we will celebrate your recipe too.