Day cream with rose water and geranium fragrance will make your daily skincare routine special

How to make a cream light as a cloud with an amazing scent of rose and geranium made with love from natural ingredients? Very easily! This time Ivka has prepared for us a DIY procedure for making a day cream that will nourish and hydrate your skin. In addition, it is easily absorbed into the skin, so it does not burden it and you can easily apply it under make-up. And that scent! That will get you!

Day cream and its ingredients

We need for the production:

 Aqueous phase:

48g rose water

Oil phase:

15g apricot oil

6g shea butter

4.5g soy lecithin 

3g vegetable glycerin

1.5g beeswax

0.5g vitamin E

0.5 g Cosgard

25 drops of essential oil geranium or according to your choice

Procedure for making the day cream:

1. Disinfect all tools and containers that you will use with 99% alcohol or boil them in water.
2. Weigh the rose water into a disinfected bowl and into another disinfected bowl weigh together the apricot oil, shea butter, glycerin, soy lecithin and beeswax.
3. Gradually heat both components in a water bath in separate bowls to a temperature of around 70°C (less than 80°C).
4. When they reach 70°C, gradually stir the rose water into the oil phase until the emulsion cools down to 40°C.
5. After cooling, subsequently add vitamin E, the preservative Cosgard and the essential oil. Mix everything together well.
6. Fill into a container and close only when the cream has completely cooled down.

Tip: when using an airless bottle, which is very practical and hygienic, the cream is best filled into the bottle directly using a piping bag.

Day cream and the significance of the ingredients

This cream is light and, thanks to the content of apricot oil, very well absorbable.

Apricot oil is rich in vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 and B17.

Rose water has soothing effects, reduces redness and irritation. It stimulates skin regeneration. It hydrates, refreshes and helps to maintain the skin's pH in balance.

Glycerin protects the skin against drying out.

You can find more recipes from Ivet on her blog: http://isweetfresh.blogspot.sk