Make Your Own Eye Cream

I am really excited about this eye cream. I've been using it for a while now before bed and it's really good. It keeps my skin really supple and non-wrinkly, and because it is kinda waxy, it keeps my skin moisturized even after I've washed it off the next morning. If you have really oily skin, I think this would still work for you because natural ingredients tend not to mess with your ph balance. Try it and see!

There is really only one step to this process if you followed my last two blogs (especially the one on making lip balm). All three processes took me 20 minutes total to do. To bring you up to speed, I suggest going here.

How to Make Your Own Eye Cream:

After following the directions on my last blog, all you have to do is add a table spoon of honey. I suggest using local honey as it helps your tolerance to pollen allergies. Honey is what changes the consistency of our lip balm into a cream, and honey is really good for you and your skin. If you are allergic to honey then use olive oil:

This step is optional, but you can add another fragrance if you like. I added lavender because it smells good with mint, and also it's good for your skin:

Stir it up and pour into a small cosmetic jar:

Put it in the refrigerator for an hour or so. Spread it on your eyes with your fingers in small massaging circles.

Things to remember:

1. The reason I did green tea and coffee bean butters is mostly because I knew I'd make this eye cream last and both of those butters have anti-aging properties.

2. Coconut oil and honey are anti-bacterial. Probably the others are too, but I know those two are for sure.

The End!

Make Your Own SPF Lip Balm

This is continued from Make Your Own Stretch Mark Eraser, if you want to make that. To make the eraser, lip balm, and eye cream, it took me about 20 minutes. That's why I'm writing these three blogs in a sequence. Otherwise, to bring you up to speed, you need these ingredients:

Namely:

1. Cocoa Butter 

2. Coconut Oil

3. Coffee Bean Butter

4. Green Tea Butter

5. Beeswax

6. At least 4 lip balm containers (You used 2 of your 6 for the stretch mark eraser)

All these ingredients can be found raw and for sale on eBay and Amazon. You don't really need the Green Tea or the Coffee Bean butters, but I added them because they are really good for protecting against sun damage. However, coconut oil has some sun blocking capabilities on its own. If you want major sun blocking power, add some zinc oxide powder (cosmetic grade) before the last step.

How to Make Lip Balm:

If you've already made the eraser, skip to the third picture down. Otherwise, get a hot pot and put water in it and wait for it to boil (or else put a pot of water on the stove):

While the water is boiling, grate about a tablespoon and a half of beeswax. (It's really annoyingly sticky and doesn't wash off your grater very easily, but grating it helps the beeswax melt more evenly later. It's actually an important step not to skip.):

Now add your beeswax to a Pyrex measuring cup and submerge it into the boiling water. (Don't use a plastic cup.):

Wait for it to melt then add one tablespoon of coconut oil and one table spoon of cocoa butter. Mix it all with a chopstick or butter knife. (Notice the towel under my hot pot now in this picture...):

Then add about 1/2 a tablespoon of green tea butter and coffee bean butter:

Then add some fragrance or flavoring. I added peppermint extract to make it all "Burt's Bees"-y. Also, I knew peppermint wouldn't conflict with the eye cream I was going to make after this:

Pour your liquid into four lip balm containers. Put your containers in the fridge in your Pyrex cup. (The starred containers below are my "erasers" from the blog prior to this one.) I got the idea to stand them up with paper towel from another blog:

The finished product:

Things to remember:

1. About 1/2 a tablespoon of butter will fill a lip balm container, so for 4 containers, you need 2 tablespoons total of product. If you do the math on the directions I just gave, you will come to 4 1/2 tablespoons of product (1 1/2T beeswax + 1T coconut oil + 1T cocoa butter + 1/2T green tea butter + 1/2T coffee bean butter = 4 1/2T). I used the remaining 2 1/2T to make my eye cream in the next blog.

2. Any seed/bean butter will work in place of these, I just used these ones for their sun damage fighting properties.

3. My husband loves this lip balm. He claims it lasts longer than his other lip balms. . .and he's right!

Now to make eye cream...


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