In summer and in winter, our hands dry out at high speed! To take care of them naturally, start making your own hand cream.
Badly treated by the weather, dehydration, and repeated washing, your hands look grey? Take care of your skin and moisturize and nourish them regularly with homemade hand cream! We have found five recipes that will allow you to take care of your hands naturally.
Make your own cosmetics
Have you been making your own cosmetics for a while now? You’re right! Not only do you no longer have any unpleasant surprises about the substances contained in your care and beauty products, but you can also be sure that you are taking care of yourself in the most natural way possible. Homemade soaps, DIY scrubs, and washable make-up remover wipes will soon hold no secrets for you. It is great news for our planet, as this approach will allow you to get closer to a zero-waste lifestyle. Now it’s time for your hands to be pampered with own hand cream!
Vanilla hand cream
- 100g of shea butter
- 3 tablespoons of coconut oil
- 5cl sweet almond oil
- 1 vanilla pod
Split the pod in half and scrape out the seeds. Add them to the sweet almond oil and leave to infuse for about 1 hour. Do not heat your oil because sweet almond is not heat resistant like other oils.
Add the shea butter and coconut oil to a bowl and melt in a water bath until the mixture is liquid. Once warm, add the almond oil. Stir vigorously for two minutes. Place your bowl in the refrigerator. When it thickens, remove it from the fridge and stir it to make it smooth and creamy.
You can then put it in an airtight glass jar.
Hand cream with Aloe Vera
In a 50ml bottle well sterilized with alcohol.
- 3 tablespoons of Aloe Vera
- 3 tablespoons of apricot oil
- 6 drops of essential oil of petit grain bigarade
- 5 drops of vitamin E
- 6 drops of Cosgard preservative
Put all the ingredients in the bottle and shake well. You will see that the gel will become a little white, it is normal. You will need to shake the bottle before each use.
Your own hand cream with beeswax
- 1 cup of pure Aloe Vera gel
- 1/2 cup of grated beeswax
- 1/2 cup of sweet almond, grape seed, or jojoba oil
- 1 teaspoon of natural vitamin E oil
- 15 drops of essential oil (of your choice)
Combine the Aloe Vera gel, vitamin E oil, and essential oil in a medium-sized bowl. Set aside for later, this will allow the mixture to come to room temperature (you can also put your mixture in a double boiler for a few minutes to get close to the temperature of the oil/wax mixture that will be added, this helps with a good emulsion).
In a glass measuring bowl, put the beeswax and the chosen oil. Place the bowl in a small pot of water and bring the water to a gentle boil. Heat, stirring occasionally until the beeswax is completely melted. Carefully remove the bowl from the pan.
Pour the oil/wax mixture into a blender or large container and allow it to cool. The mixture should be cool but still soft. Once cooled, turn the blender to slow or use a mixer or whisk in a slow, steady motion. Then pour the Aloe Vera mixture in a slow steady stream. If using a blender, stop it as often as needed to push the ingredients together with a spatula. Continue blending until you reach your desired consistency (this may take 10-15 minutes, so be patient for the perfect cream!).
Transfer the moisturizer to clean jars. Refrigerate cream that will not be used within two to three weeks.
Special hand cream for sensitive skin
- 1 teaspoon of beeswax
- 25g of shea butter
- 15ml macadamia oil
- 15 drops of helichrysum essential oil
- 5 drops of ylang-ylang essential oil
- 3 drops of vitamin E
In a heatproof bowl, place the beeswax and the shea butter.
Place your container in a water bath to melt your preparation gently and evenly.
Remove it from the heat after the ingredients have melted completely and add the macadamia oil, the essential oils of helichrysum and ylang-ylang, and finally the vitamin E.
Mix well to obtain a smooth and homogeneous texture. Transfer your preparation into a dedicated jar for use.
After the preparation of your own hand cream, the consistency will change from liquid to a more unctuous and thicker texture, notably thanks to the presence of wax and shea butter. To be used locally: take a small dab of cream and massage your hands well. Thanks to its ingredients, it will moisturize and repair your hands gently. Very penetrating, you won’t have to worry about having greasy hands after using your own hand cream.
Gardener’s hand cream
For 30 grams:
- Chamomile and calendula macerate on sweet almond – 39.3%, or 11.79 gr.
- Hemp oil – 30%, that is 9 gr.
- Kokum butter – 23%, or 6.9 g.
- Sumac Wax – 6% (1.8g)
- Calendula CO2 – 0,1%, or 0,03 gr.
- Rosemary CO2 – 0.1%, or 0.03 gr.
- Vitamin E – 0,5%, i.e. 0,15 gr.
- Allantoin – 0,5%, that is 0,15 gr.
- Fine lavender essential oil – 0,25 %, i.e. 0,075 gr.
- Vetiver essential oil – 0.25%, i.e. 0.075 gr.
Disinfect your utensils and your work surface.
Weigh the butter and wax in a beaker or bowl that can withstand heat. If you are using pure sweet almonds, you will also weigh them. If you are using it with a plant maceration, it will wait until step 5. Melt them very gently in a water bath.
When all the ingredients have melted, remove the beaker from the water bath and stir to cool. You can place the beaker in a bowl of cold water to help cool it.
Add the hemp oil, macerate(s), extracts, and essential oils. Calendula CO2 extract sometimes has trouble mixing. In this case, put the bowl back into the still-warm water bath for a few seconds, with the heat turned off.
Continue stirring and place the still liquid balm in the refrigerator for a stay of about 10 minutes. 10 minutes cold → stir → 10 minutes cold → stir, etc. Shorten the cold stays at the end, if necessary.
Continue to work the balm in this way until you see the trace. This is the point where you see the mixture thicken, the texture even out, and you leave a trace when stirring.
Add the allantoin and mix it well with the preparation. Pour the mixture into a jar. Place it in the refrigerator for 12 hours, without a lid.
After 12 hours, take the balm out and leave it at room temperature for a few hours, still without a lid. When you no longer see condensation on the surface of the balm, it is time to close the lid.
It’s ready! The texture will continue to work for the next few days but that doesn’t stop you from using it right away. You won’t even have greasy hands with your own hand cream!