This is my favorite moisturizing cream recipe yet. I highly recommend this formulation for dry, damaged skin and/or winters itch. I LOVE it! Besides being all natural, this colloidal oatmeal cream recipe contains ingredients that will help protect, soften, nourish, heal and rejuvenate the skin. Making your own homemade cream is fun, rewarding and easy. Use this on your face, hands and body. Your skin will love you for it.
Colloidal Oatmeal Cream Recipe – ingredient benefits:
Colloidal oatmeal benefits (skin):
- Helps heal skin
- Protects and moisturizes skin
- Soothes and relieves minor skin irritations
- Reduces redness and itching
- Improves skin elasticity
- Reduces scarring
- Protects the skin by creating a natural barrier
- Relieves sunburns
- Destroys bacteria
- Relieves inflammation and soreness
- Helps heal burns, cuts and wounds
- Sooths itchy skin
- Helps sooth and heal psoriasis, eczema and acne
- Moisturizes
Aloe vera gel benefits (skin):
Grapeseed oil benefits (skin):
- Good for all skin types
- Repairs skin damage from the sun
- Helps slow the process of aging
- Has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties
- Helps prevent clogging pores and breakouts
- Nourishes skin, helping keep it smooth and subtle
- Easily absorbed into the skin
- Helps to tighten and tone the skin
- Helps to heal skin
- Regenerates skin cells
Coconut oil benefits (skin):
- Good for all skin types
- Moisturizes skin
- Helps heal skin
- Protects the skin from free radical damage
- Easily absorbed into the skin
- Provides nutrients to the skin
- Benefits to the skin’s connective tissue
Amara Organics Aloe Vera Gel from Organic Cold Pressed Aloe, 8 fl. oz.
Grapeseed Oil from Majestic Pure, 100% Pure & Natural Massage and Carrier oil, 16 fl oz [1]Viva Naturals Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, 16 Ounce [2]
Colloidal Oatmeal Cream Recipe:
How to video:
Supplies:
4 (4 oz) or 2 (8 oz) glass jars
Blender, food processor or stick blender
Ingredients:Cuisinart Smart Stick 2 Speed Hand Blender, Brushed Stainless Steel [3]
1/2 cup of aloe vera gel
½ cup colloidal oatmeal tea*
1 teaspoon of vegetable glycerin
1/3 cup of coconut oil
1/2 ounce of beeswax
1/4 cup of almond oil
½ cup grapeseed oil
Up to 1 ½ teaspoons essential oils or natural fragrance oils (optional). I used 1 tsp ylang ylang and 1/2 tsp sage essential oil just for fun.
Soap safe colorant (Optional). I used no colorant.
Beesworks® BEESWAX PELLETS, YELLOW, 1lb-Pesticide Free-Chemical Free-Cosmetic Grade-Must Have For Many Different Projects [4]Viva Naturals Sweet Almond Oil, Hexane Free for Skin and Hair, 16 oz / 473 ml [5]Glycerin Vegetable Kosher USP – 1 Quart (43 oz.) [6]
Place aloe vera gel, colloidal oatmeal tea* and glycerin in 2+ cup bowl. Place almond oil, grape seed oil, coconut oil and beeswax in a microwave safe bowl, microwave on high for 30 second and stir. Repeat in 20 second intervals until fully melted.
Run stick blender in aloe vera, colloidal oatmeal, glycerin mixture (a food processor may be used). Slowly pour in melted oils. As the oils are blended in, the cream will turn white. As soon as you have a mayonnaise-like consistency, stop motor, add essential oils and colorant, and then pulse blend. Do not over blend.
Transfer cream to glass jars while still warm because it thickens quickly. I use 4 oz decorative jelly jars. They are perfect as gifts, or as an addition to a spa gift basket.
I am not the only one enjoying this cream. My friends and family are already asking for more!
*To make colloidal oatmeal tea; place 2 tablespoons steel-cut oatmeal in a coffee grinder. Grind oatmeal until it is the texture of very fine powder (this is colloidal oatmeal). Mix the colloidal oatmeal in 1 cup boiling water. Mix with a wire whisk until dissolved. Let stand for about 5 minutes. Pour your colloidal oatmeal/water mixture through a coffee filter into a cup. You want to end up with ½ cup colloidal oatmeal tea.
NOTE: Lasts a week or so if stored in a refrigerator. Also, grape seed oil will give the lotion a bit of a green tint.
Now go have FUN and relax.
Related articles:
The Best Colloidal Oatmeal Mask [7]
Homemade Conditioner – Colloidal Oatmeal [8]
Colloidal Oatmeal – A Really Really Simple Bath for Dry Itchy Skin [9]
Homemade Sugar Scrub [10]
The Best Hand Cream [11]