Question:
Hello
When making your own products such as face creams and so on, do you add a carrier oil to the cream as well as your essential oils or does the cream serve as a carrier without a need for a carrier oil...?
Thanks for your help
seeker
Hi Seeker,
The cream should act as a carrier. Check out the ingredients though. I was using base creams and belatedly discovered that they contained lanolin (I had just done a patch test on someone who was lanolin intolerant when I discovered that!
Hi there,
I use specially designed white lotions from aromatherapy suppliers, but you can add fixed oils to them for their particular properties - enrich it with avocado, help circulation with a bit of hazelnut - and so on, like you might if you were tailoring a carrier oil. You might also like to try the aromantics website, where you can get recipes and ingredients to make your own creams from scratch.
Hope that helps
Nellx
I often add carrier oils to base lotions as indeed they have their own properties.
For instance, if I want to enrich a face cream, as well as the essential oils, I may add some avocado oil. I also make a cream for hot flushes and add evening primrose oil.
Lesley
I often add jojoba to mine. Especially for face creams as it adds some extra moisturising qualities. You can adapt to suit each individual client - lots of the specialist or macerated oils are worth adding.
Good luck!
Sally
Hi
Here are a few more you could experiment with.
RosehipOil (Rosa Rubiginosa) is very good for regenerating tissue - facial wrinkles, premature ageing, crows feet, scars so would work well in creams. Add some to your base cream.
Macadamia oil for mature skins (its very nourishing) -
Wheatgerm or vitamin E promotes formation of new skin cells and improves circulation and its an antioxidant.
Luv Binah
Hi there
I have attempted to add evening primrose oil and essential oils to a base cream and found the oil settled at the top. On another occasion, the cream seemed to go a bit lumpy. Can someone advise where I've gone wrong please?
Thanks
Tracey
You should be able to stir it in with a spatula.
Lesley
When making your own products such as face creams and so on, do you add a carrier oil to the cream as well as your essential oils or does the cream serve as a carrier without a need for a carrier oil...?
Thanks for your help
seeker
Answers:
Hi Seeker,
The cream should act as a carrier. Check out the ingredients though. I was using base creams and belatedly discovered that they contained lanolin (I had just done a patch test on someone who was lanolin intolerant when I discovered that!
Answers:
Hi there,
I use specially designed white lotions from aromatherapy suppliers, but you can add fixed oils to them for their particular properties - enrich it with avocado, help circulation with a bit of hazelnut - and so on, like you might if you were tailoring a carrier oil. You might also like to try the aromantics website, where you can get recipes and ingredients to make your own creams from scratch.
Hope that helps
Nellx
Answers:
I often add carrier oils to base lotions as indeed they have their own properties.
For instance, if I want to enrich a face cream, as well as the essential oils, I may add some avocado oil. I also make a cream for hot flushes and add evening primrose oil.
Lesley
Answers:
I often add jojoba to mine. Especially for face creams as it adds some extra moisturising qualities. You can adapt to suit each individual client - lots of the specialist or macerated oils are worth adding.
Good luck!
Sally
Answers:
Hi
Here are a few more you could experiment with.
RosehipOil (Rosa Rubiginosa) is very good for regenerating tissue - facial wrinkles, premature ageing, crows feet, scars so would work well in creams. Add some to your base cream.
Macadamia oil for mature skins (its very nourishing) -
Wheatgerm or vitamin E promotes formation of new skin cells and improves circulation and its an antioxidant.
Luv Binah
Answers:
Hi there
I have attempted to add evening primrose oil and essential oils to a base cream and found the oil settled at the top. On another occasion, the cream seemed to go a bit lumpy. Can someone advise where I've gone wrong please?
Thanks
Tracey
Answers:
You should be able to stir it in with a spatula.
Lesley
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