How to prepare a face cream at home: collection of 100% natural cream recipes

Homemade face creams may be better than those you can purchase as 100% natural ingredients are used for their preparation. It is important only to select all the components of the cream for your skin type and your personal needs. There are simple recipes for home creams that are easy and quick to prepare, and there are also more complex ones, for which preparation you will need to find different ingredients and spend some period of time but the result is worth your efforts. Homemade creams have many advantages as they do not contain harmful preservatives and other toxic substances. And besides, homemade creams do not cause addiction. One more benefit is that they do not contain hormones, which cannot be said about expensive cosmetic products.

The only thing to keep in mind is that homemade natural creams for the face can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 1 month, and sometimes the shelf life is reduced from several days to 1 week.

To prepare homemade creams you will need:

Small jars with a lid for storing cream (glass suits best);
Syringe (If there is no syringe in order to measure the required amount of milliliters, you can measure approximately: 1 tablespoon – 15 ml, 20-25 drops – 1 ml.)
Mini mixer or an ordinary mixer with nozzles, which you can beat a small amount of mixture (instead of a mixer you can use a whisk, spoon or fork).

Homemade face creams for dry skin
Homemade creams for oily skin
Homemade creams for normal skin
Homemade creams for the skin around eyes
Homemade anti-wrinkle face creams
Video

Homemade face creams for dry skin

Nourishing and moisturizing homemade face cream, prepared from natural products, will revitalize dry skin and prevent premature aging. All the rich natural ingredients are collected in home creams, which you can prepare yourself. Choose the recipe, which you like more and get started.

Recipe number 1:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of lanolin;
1 teaspoon of beeswax;
2 tablespoons of almond oil;
3 tablespoons of rose water;
2 drops of rose essential oil

Preparation: Melt the water bath with lanolin along with beeswax. Do not remove from the bath and add almond oil with the rose water. Remove the cream from the bath and whisk, when the cream is slightly cool, add the essential oil of the rose and whisk until the cream is completely cool.

Recipe number 2:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon badger fat;
2 tablespoons of St. John’s wort oil;
1 teaspoon of beeswax;
3 drops of vitamin A and E in oil

Preparation: Mix all ingredients and melt the ingredients in a water bath. Pour the cream into a small jar.

Recipe number 3:

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons juice of ripe strawberries;
1 teaspoon of glycerin;
1 teaspoon of oatmeal

Preparation: Add the glycerin to the strawberry juice and leave for 10 minutes. Then add the oat flour and whip the cream.

Recipe number 4:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon peach seed oil;
1 tablespoon of almond oil;
1 tablespoon of olive oil;
1 teaspoon of beeswax;
Borax powder on the tip of the knife;
1 tablespoon hot boiled water

Preparation: Mix the oils and beeswax and put them on a water bath so that the wax melts. Dilute the borax in water. The first formulation is removed from the water bath and immediately mixed with the second composition. Whisk until the cream completely cools.

Recipe number 5:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of cocoa butter;
1 tablespoon of almond oil;
1 tablespoon of olive oil;
1 teaspoon of beeswax;
Half a teaspoon of emulsifying wax;
2 tablespoons of rose water or mineral water

Preparation: Mix the oils with bees and emulsifying waxes and put them on a water bath. As the mixture melts, remove from the bath and add rose water. Stir or whisk until the cream cools.

Recipe number 6:

Ingredients:

Chamomile flowers;
Boiled water;
Glycerin;
Geranium essential oil;
Castor oil;
Margarine.

Preparation: Nourishing camomile cream will be perfect for dry and flaky skin. 1 tbsp. of dried chamomile medicinal flowers should be poured with half a glass of freshly boiled water, covered and left for 1 hour, then strained. In the 2 tbsp of the infusion obtained, add half a teaspoon of glycerin (it is recommended to use vegetable glycerin).

Then melt 1 tbsp of margarine or butter to a very mild condition, add to it 1 teaspoon of castor oil, 3 drops of essential oil of geranium (you can take an orange or patchouli), and mix chamomile infusion with glycerin.

Mix everything and rub (and best of all, of course, whip with a mini mixer), then put the resulting cream into a small jar. You can store such a home cream in the fridge for about 5 days.

Recipe 7:

Ingredients:

Sour cream;
Lemon juice;
Cucumber juice;
Egg yolk;
Rose water;
Vitamin E and A.

Preparation: Recipe of sour cream for dry skin is very useful for your skin. To make it you will need to take fatty sour cream mixed with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 tbsp. of fresh cucumber juice, and the same amount of raw egg yolk. Then add 2 teaspoons of cologne (or rose water, infused with alcohol) into the mixture.

It is also recommended to add to the mixture 2 drops of vitamin E and A in oil, they promote a good moisturizing of the skin, and 2 drops of essential oil, such as rose, jasmine or orange to flavor the cream.

Whisk everything with a mixer, and put in the refrigerator for a while, so that the cream thickens. This home cream can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5-6 days.

Important: Dry skin must be obligatory moisturized on the daily basis in order to avoid quick aging process.
Back

Homemade creams for oily skin

Everyone understands that shop cosmetics are overcrowded with not natural ingredients able to quickly and effectively improve the condition of oily skin. They clean up the unhealthy shine, and soothe the foci of inflammation, and make it seem much more attractive. But usually such results do not last long. Moreover, such quick result may lead only to external beauty, sometimes disastrously acting on cells and tissues from the inside. Face cream for oily skin can be prepared at home. Use the following instructions and you will be satisfied with the result you are going to notice after the first use even.

Recipe number 1:

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons yogurt;
1 egg yolk;
1 tablespoon cream;
Half a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar;
Half a tablespoon of tomato juice;
1 tablespoon of honey

Preparation: Mix everything. If the honey is hard, soften it in a water bath.

Recipe number 2:

Ingredients:

2.5 g of salicylic acid;
25 g of rice starch;
35 g of zinc oxide;
7.5 g of castor oil;
30 g of Vaseline

Preparation: Mix everything and rub it well. The cream narrows the expanded pores effectively.

Recipe number 3:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon of olive oil;
1 tablespoon coconut oil;
2 tablespoons pounded strawberries;
2 drops of vitamin E in oil

Preparation: All ingredients should be mixed and placed in a small jar with a lid. It is recommended to use it daily to improve your skin quality.

Important: You are recommended to try several recipes to choose the most suitable one. Oily skin requires regular care with the natural ingredients in order to get rid of unhealthy shine and inflammation.
Back

Homemade creams for normal skin

Normal skin is free of flaws inherent in the skin of other types- not too greasy and not too dry to look at and touch – such skin reacts normally to any temperature changes, the use of soap and cosmetics, various water procedures. But even such skin needs care. Like any other type, normal and nourishing masks are excellent for normal skin, containing biologically active substances like vitamins, which enhance the processes of metabolism in skin cells.

Recipe number 1:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon carrot juice;
2 egg yolks;
1 teaspoon of beeswax

Preparation: Whisk the yolks. Wash the carrot juice. Wax must be melt in a water bath. Mix all ingredients and beat.

Recipe number 2:

Ingredients:

100 ml of strawberry juice;
1 teaspoon of lanolin;
Oat flour or crushed oatmeal

Preparation: Melt the lanolin in a water bath. Then pour in the strawberry juice and add as much oat flour to make a creamy mass.

Recipe number 3:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon persimmon gruel;
1 tablespoon of soft butter;
1 yolk;
1 teaspoon of honey

Preparation: Mix the ingredients and rub well. Apply the cream on your face and after 20 minutes remove the excess with a napkin.

Important: Take care of normal skin type regularly and you will look young and beautiful longer.
Back

Homemade creams for the skin around eyes

You can’t use the same face cream for the area around eyes. Here you will find a collection of effective eye creams, which prevent first signs of aging or reduce the wrinkles if you already have some.

Recipe number 1: Anti-wrinkle eye cream

This natural cream will provide you with a good anti-wrinkle effect.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon of soft butter;
1 raw egg yolk;
1 tablespoon crushed petals of roses, jasmine, dog rose or lily of the valley.

Preparation: Mix butter with egg yolk, add the remaining ingredients and mix well. Apply the cream under the eyes before going to sleep. Keep in the refrigerator for no longer than 7 days.

Recipe number 2: Nourishing eye cream

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of liquid honey;
1 teaspoon of glycerin;
1 teaspoon of food gelatin powder;
5 tablespoons of boiled or mineral water

Preparation: Mix all the ingredients. Place the dishes with the mixture in hot water for 10 minutes. Then stir again or whisk it better with a mixer. Keep the cream in the refrigerator for no longer than 1 week.

Recipe number 3: Softening cream for fine wrinkles around the eyes

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of lanolin;
2 tablespoons of almond oil;
Half a teaspoon of lecithin powder;
2 tablespoons of mineral or rose water.

Preparation: Lanolin is melt in a water bath, then you should add almond oil and lecithin, diluted in mineral or rose water. Put dishes with a mixture in a water bath and stir for 2 minutes. Then whisk the mixture and let it cool. Use the cream for the night.

Recipe number 4: Moisturizing eye cream

Ingredients:

1 ml of raspberry oil;
0.5 ml of jojoba oil;
0.5 ml poppy oil;
0.5 ml evening primrose oil;
1 drop of sandalwood oil;
2 drops of rose essential oil;
11 ml of mineral or boiled water;
10 drops of the ceramide complex;
10 drops of biosol;
1 teaspoon of dense hyaluronic gel;
2.5 pieces of candelilla wax;
0.5 g of nicolipid.

Preparation: In a small bowl, combine poppy seeds, jojoba, candelilla wax, niccolipid. Heat the mixture in a water bath. In another dish in a water bath, heat the water. In the water, add hyaluronic gel, mix it with the first prepared composition. Whipping with a mixer, add raspberry oil, evening primrose oil, sandalwood oil, rose oil, ceramide complex, biosol. Whip all the ingredients a little more. The cream should not be stored in the refrigerator for more than 1 month.

Recipe number 5: Cream for mature eye skin

Ingredients:

0.4 ml of castor oil;
1.4 ml of pomegranate oil;
0.5 ml of kiwi oil;
2 drops of essential sandalwood oil;
1 drop of essential oil of nutmeg;
3 drops of carrot essential oil;
Infusion of parsley on jojoba and avocado oils – 1 ml;
Emulsifier for cream and milk – 1 ml;
Rose hydrolyte – 5.5 ml;
Cornflower hydrolyte – 8 ml;
Extract of brown algae – 0.4 ml;
Extract of red grapes – 0.6 ml;
Silk peptides – 0.4 ml;
Hyaluronic acid 0.1 ml;
Silk mica (sericite) – 0.2 ml;
Paraben preservative – 0.12 ml

Preparation: In a small container, pour 2 ml of cornflower hydrate and pour hyaluronic acid. Stir and leave until the composition swells and becomes gel-like. In this gel add the extract of red grapes, extract of brown seaweed, silk peptides.

Water base: in a separate bowl, pour the rose hydrolyte and the remaining cornflower hydrolyte.

Oils composition: pour out castor oil, pomegranate oil, infusion of parsley into another container. Add emulsifier for milk and cream in this mixture.

Composition with a water base and a composition with oils must be put on a water bath and heated until the emulsifier dissolves. After this, pour the composition with the oils into a water base. Beat the mixer and put the dishes with the mixture in cold water, continue whipping until the cream thickens. Pour the cream into a jar and pour in the mixture prepared at the first stage. Stir well, add paraben preservative, kiwi oil, sandalwood oil, nutmeg oil, carrot oil, silk mica should be added the latest).

Important: Skin around eyes is especially sensitive and needs special care.
Back

Homemade anti-wrinkle face creams

Wrinkles are the most horrible enemy of every woman. However, you can fight against wrinkles easily if you use one of the face cream recipes here:

Recipe number 1:

Ingredients:

Iodine;
Honey;
Castor oil;
Vaseline.

Preparation: In a glass jar, drip 1-2 drops of iodine, add 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of castor oil, 1 teaspoon of Vaseline. Mix all ingredients well. Apply on face for 2 hours. Then rinse with water.

Recipe number 2:

Ingredients:

Fresh leaves of nettle, parsley, currant, ashberry, rose petals and jasmine;
1 teaspoon of beeswax;
1 tablespoon of any vegetable oil;
1 teaspoon of vitamin A in oil;
1 tablespoon of hot boiled water.

Preparation: Fresh leaves are rinsed. Squeeze out juice from them (through the juicer or pass the leaves through the meat grinder, and then squeeze the juice through the gauze from the porridge). Take the container, place the beeswax in it and put it on a water bath. When the wax melts, add vegetable oil, vitamin A, juice from the leaves and water. Stir, remove from the bath, whisk until the cream is completely cool. Use this cream to prevent first wrinkles effectively as well as fight against deep wrinkles as well.

Recipe number 3:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of honey;
1 teaspoon of lanolin;
2 tablespoons of almond oil;
2 tablespoons of hot water

Preparation: Honey and lanolin should be melt in a water bath, stirring, add oil and water. Remove from the bath and whisk. Use it on the regular basis to get rid of wrinkles forever.

Recipe number 4:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of honey;
1 teaspoon of lanolin;
Less than half a teaspoon of soy lecithin (liquid or in granules);
4 tablespoons of warm water or decoction of herbs

Preparation: Melt honey in a water bath with lanolin. In a separate container, dilute the soy lecithin in water or broth of herbs and add this solution to honey and lanolin. Remove the mixture from the water bath and stir or whisk until it cools. To get the necessary anti-wrinkle effect it is necessary to use this face cream every day before you go to sleep.

Recipe number 5:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of lanolin;
1 teaspoon of honey;
1 tablespoon sea-buckthorn oil;
1 egg yolk;
2 tablespoons hot boiled water;
1 tablespoon of quince pulp without skin

Preparation: Mix honey with lanolin, put in a water bath. While stirring, add all other ingredients and remove from the bath. Cream should be whisked or pounded well.

Recipe number 6:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of beeswax;
1 teaspoon resin pine;
2 drops of vitamin A, E, D in oil;
2 tablespoons of rose water;
Mint, chamomile, linden, St. John’s wort, yarrow, green tea.

Preparation: From the herbs, cook the extract: 1 tablespoon of a mixture of dried herbs, pour half a cup of warm olive oil, close the container and leave for a week. Then strain.

In a water bath, melt the beeswax and the pine resin separately. Without removing from the bath, add melted resin to the wax, 2 tablespoons extract of herbs, vitamins in oil, rose water. Ingredients should be mixed and removed from the bath. Whisk until smooth.

Recipe number 7:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of lanolin;
2 tablespoons grape seed oil;
1 teaspoon of honey;
2 tablespoons juice of black currant berries;
1 tablespoon lemon juice.

Preparation: In a water bath, melt lanolin, without removing from the bath, add all the other ingredients. Remove the cream from the bath, put in a container with cold water and whisk until the mass is cooled.

Important: To have the desired anti-wrinkle effect you are recommended to choose the most suitable cream for the regular use.
Back