Aloe Vera Face Cream DIY

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Hello there! 🙂

I am back with a new recipe for a summer cream light in texture, very hydrating and nourishing. 🙂

I have been using it for a couple of weeks and I really like it.
Obviously my “grease fall” composition is intended for what my skin likes (nowadays my acne days are only a distant memory but I am always scared it might come back: so I still formulate in order to give my skin fatty acids that won’t give any advantage to acne 🙂 – you can read more HERE).

The texture is light and quite fluid, it absorbs very easily and it has a quite “matte” finish thanks to the butters.
The active ingredients make for a soothing, hydrating and quite nourishing cream 🙂

Enough words now! 😀

FORMULA: 

Phase A: 
Water to 100 (as always – find the meaning of this HERE)
Glycerin 4 (glycerin is very hydrating but for people with very oily skin it might give a heavy/stiky feeling to the cream. Personally I don’t feel it so I like to add glycerin because it is fairly inexpensive but effective. A more oily skin could be fine with 1%)
Xanthan Gum 0.25 (this is the gelling agent – Even thought xanthan gum, alone, doesn’t make the best gel, I am not using it combined to a carbomer because of the ingredients in this recipe: there are too many ingredients which would break down the carbomer gel and therefore why to waste it… 🙂 )

Phase B: 
Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate 3 (the emulsifier)
Cetyl Alcohol 1.8 (this is the thickener 🙂 it gives consistency to the cream – and a dry finish)
Kokum butter 1 
Murumuru butter 1 
Tocopherol 0.5 (our Vitamin E)
Cetiol Sensoft 0.5 (this is a very light synthetic oil which gives a good consistency to the cream.

Phase C (the oily – cool down phase):
Safflower oil 1 
Black currant seed oil 0.5 
Cranberry seed oil 0.5 
Bisabolol 0.5 (this is a powerful soothing ingredient – it also helps against the growth of acne bacteria)

Phase C part 2 (the water based – cool down phase):
Hyaluronic Acid Gel 3 (I have used the one I made with the formula HERE)
Aloe Vera Powder (200:1) 0.5 (I used an organic aloe vera powder)
D-Panthenol 1 (Vitamin B5)
Allantoin 0.4 (soothing active ingredient)
Silk Hydrolized Proteins 2.6
Preservative 1

Extras:
– Fragrance oil (of course of at least Cosmetic grade)
– One drop of food colorant

As always, the HOW TO is very similar to all the other recipes of creams I have done.
Here a little sum up:

1) I poured the Xanthan gum on top of the Glycerin, stirred.

2) Slowly added the water of the Phase A:

3) Measured the Phase B.

4) Placed Phase A and Phase B in a double boiler and heated them up to 70°C

5) Poured the Phase B into the Phase A into 2 or 3 steps.

6) With a stick blender or immersion mixer, I mixed the two phases together until well emulsified:

7) I kept stirring with a spatula until the emulsion reached room temperature

8) When the cream reached room temperature, I added the two Phase Cs

9) When all looked good and emulsified, I gave it a last mix with the stick blender (it is so it makes the cream more smooth and stable).

10) I added fragrance and color (I added cucumber fragrance and one drop of green food coloring giving the cream a fresh feel 🙂

Tadaaa 😀 😀 😀

Hope you liked this recipe!

HAVE A GREAT DAY! 🙂