Lush Cucumber Face Cream
Makes 1 1/2 cups
Cucumber Juice- See Video #TonorTalk ½ cup
Hyaluronic Acid ½ tsp into ⅓ cup cucumber juice
Vitamin C Powder ½ tsp into hyaluronic acid gel or 1 teaspoon of cucumber juice
Kojic Acid 1 teaspoon into 2 tablespoons of cucumber water and blend
Aloe Vera Powder 1 teaspoon into 3 tablespoons of cucumber juice and blend well
Shea Butter ½ cup - double boiler
Base Lotion ½ cup
Vegetable Glycerin 3 tablespoons
Geranium Essential Oil (Jade) 10 drops
Frankincense Essential Oil (Jade) 10 drops
Ginger Essential Oil (Jade) 10 drops
Turmeric Essential Oil (Jade) 10 drops
Coffee Bean Essential Oil (Jade) 5 drops
Coffee Bean Carrier Oil 2 pipettes
Carrot Seed Carrier Oil 2 pipettes
Pumpkin Seed Carrier Oil 2 pipettes
Prickly Pear Cactus Carrier Oil 2 pipettes
HOW TO MAKE LUSH CUCUMBER FACE CREAM:
Make Cucumber Toner (set aside)
Soak Hyaluronic Acid in water and make a gel (allow to soak about 1 hour 1st) mixing as you go along
Add to the Hyaluronic Acid VIT C and allow to sit another 10 mins
Add Kojic Acid to 2 tsp of cucumber water and blend, then add to hyaluronic gel and blend (you should have all the powders at this point added to the gel and sitting.
Add 1 tsp of Aloe Vera Powder to 2 tablespoons of cucumber juice OR fresh Aloe Vera Gel (2 tablespoons)
At this time put the Shea Butter ½ cup in a double boiler on the stove and allow to melt. Not recommended in the microwave.
Take ½ cup of base lotion (this is a mix of nut butters with emulsifying wax to create a base lotion and allow the rest of the ingredients to blend together smoothly to create a moisturizer.
Add all the oils (essential oils and carrier oils to your warm Shea butter) mix and keep warm. (if you have a serum you want to use instead you can add 5 pipettes of serum to the lotion)
Add the glycerin to the shea butter oil blend.
Add the base lotion to the warm shea butter and mix with spatula or hand blender (immerser may not work here the stiffer it gets.)
Add the aloe vera to the hyaluronic gel and mix, then add the gel to the lotion and shea butter blend and mix well.
Extra Tips:
Mix each addition to another ingredient as you go along, don't add and let sit. You must blend to incorporate each oil each time.
Keep the shea butter warm, start it early otherwise it gets too hot and the properties will be diminished.
This recipe will take about an hour, give yourself time to do it, don't rush. Being off a little in the recipe won't hurt except do not use too much shea butter otherwise your moisturizer will harden. Do not add any additional water, each time you use cucumber juice and not water.
Do not buy store bought cucumber juice or non clinical oils. The links to the proper ingredients are linked in this recipe above. Just click on the ingredient name.
See the DIY Cucumber Lush Moisturizer Tiktok video I made to help explain this recipe.
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