Cream Me Up

January 29, 2012 in 2012, Health & Beauty
Tags: lotion, Moisturizer, Sunless tanning

Its is so easy to make your own creams and lotion that once you start you will never look back. The advantages are huge not least of which are you get to control what goes on your skin, be way more eco friendly  and  you save a whole load of cash. You can make almost anything the cosmetic companies sell  but without the palm oil, dodgy chemicals (have you read what goes into this stuff?)and weird colours. Though you can have all those too if you want.

Start by making a  base creams, moisturiser or lotion – more info here.

Then you can add active ingredients to make specialist creams.

Suntan Lotion

- add Microfine Titanium Dioxide OR Zinc Oxide to make a suntan lotion

Self Tan

- Add DHA to make a fake bake that really works – find out what DHA is right here

Magic, age defying, cellulite busting  potions

Most of the special stuff you find in cosmetic products can be bought on line. Scour the internet for all the gubbins, the AHAs, enzymes and crushed pearls that are supposed to  grant instant beauty and add them too. I can’t promise results, but it’s fun experimenting.

PLASTIC ALERT
Some of the above will come plastic packaged.  As I get huge amounts cream out of one small bag of ingredients so I consider it a worthwhile compromise. It still represents a huge decrease in plastic consumption.

Suppliers

I love aromantics   and buy most of my stuff from them but there are loads of good guys out there.

Find other plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index

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• Making Basic Creams and Lotions (plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com)

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