HOW TO MAKE LOTION OINTMENT

Ointment comes many forms. You can get gel ointment and others. This recipe will teach you how to make ointment in lotion form. With regards to the ingredients, you can add any other ingredients you deem fit to help relieve pain.

Ingredients

1.  Petroleum Jelly              1kg
   
2. E-wax                             100g
3. Stearic acid                       100g
4. Cetyl Alcohol                   50g
5. Methyl Salicylate              100ml
6. Color                                to taste
7. Menthol crystals              100g
8. Peppermint oil                  50ml
9. Lavender oil                     50ml
10. Shea butter                        100g
11. Preservative                        50g
12. Water                                   1liter

 Process/Method

1. Put your water in a saucepan and place it on fire…allow it to boil and lower the heat
2. Add your e-wax, cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, shea butter as well as petroleum jelly and allow it to melt.
3. Add your color to it and stir very
4. Add your preservative and stir
5. Bring it down and menthol crystals and stir very for it mix well
6. How it to cool down and then add your methyl salicylate
7. Add you lavender oil and peppermint oil
8. You are done!

HOW TO MAKE CASTILE LIQUID SOAP

 

Castile soap has increasingly become one of the best liquid soap for shampoo and bathing gel. Even though it is alkaline with a pH of 8.9 on the pH scale. It is mild on the skin and hair and it lathers very well more than some sulfates. The soap was named after the olive oil-based soaps originating in Castile, Spain, The soap is primarily made of coconut, olive, and hemp oils, but other oils like avocado, almond, and walnut can also be used. In this recipe, we are going to teach you how to use coconut oil to do your Castile liquid soap.

 

Ingredients

1. Potassium hydroxide              60 grams
2. Coconut oil                             250 ml
3. Glycerin                                  30 ml
4. Water                                      400 ml

 

Process/Method

1. Measure your ingredients and set them aside
2. Put your saucepan on the fire and add your oil
3. Add 200 ml of water to it and allow it to boil
4. Use the rest of the water to mix the potassium hydroxide as you wait for the water to boil
5. When the water boil, lower the heat
6. Begin to add the potassium hydroxide solution in bits and stir
7. Stir well to turn the mixture into getting
8. When you get the gel, add your glycerin to it and stir
9. Bring it down from the fire and allow it to cool down
10. Pour into your container.
11. You are done!

 

Take-Home

Like we have always said in our videos, you can watch our video here. If you want to use it for business, kindly contact us for an in-depth training. Castile liquid soap for shampoo and bathing gel is now the order of the day because it is believed to be mild on the skin and the hair even though it is an alkaline product.

HOW TO MAKE WHITE VINEGAR

 

Vinegar is used for many purposes in the home and the catering industry. In the home, vinegar is used to wash vegetables and other leafy vegetables like cabbage and lettuce. Preparing vinegar will not take you 10 minutes if you have the ingredients available to you.

 

Ingredients

1. Acetic acid                              100
2. Water                                      1.5 liters
3. Citric acid (optional)               20 grams

 

Process

1. Clean your saucepan or bowl and also wash your bottles for packaging.
2. Put your water on the fire and allow it to boil for about 5 minutes
3. Bring it down from the fire and allow it to cool down a bit
4. Add your acetic acid to it and stir very well
5. Now add your citric acid to balance the pH of your vinegar
6. Stir and let it cool down before you bottle
7. You are done!

 

Take-Home

This recipe can be used for business purposes because vinegar is widely used in the home, catering, and also in the detergent and cosmetic industry to adjust the pH of products and also as a safety precaution tool, especially in the detergent and soap making industry.

How to make Stretchmarks Cream

 

Stretchmark is very common in most women and young girls. It can be caused by many factors and some of these factors are pregnancy, weight gain, and the use of some cosmetics like lotions and creams. Some of these conditions are very severe which appears to be some sort of scar on the skin. There are various means of treating this problem but the best solution to these stretchmarks is to prevent it from occurring on your body or finding a solution to it at its early stage.

There are various creams, oil, and lotions out there for treating this condition and we are adding our solution to the numerous solutions out there. You can try our recipe to prepare a cream to help treat these conditions. You can the video tutorial here.

 

Ingredients

1. Cocoa Butter                      30 grams
2. Mango Butter                    30 grams
3. Shea Butter                        30 grams
4. Emulsifying Wax               20 grams
5. Coffee powder                 15 grams
6. Water                                   100 ml
7. Sodium Benzoate            5 grams

As we have always indicated in our recipes, you can add any other ingredients that you know it is good for the skin and can help treat the condition.

 

Process/Method

1. Put your saucepan on the fire and add your water to it.
2. Add your shea butter, cocoa butter, emulsifying wax, and mango butter to it and allow it to melt
3. After melting, bring it down from the fire and allow it to cool down
4. Use an electric hand mixer to stir for easy mixing.
5. Add your preservative or sodium benzoate to it and stir very well
6. Add your coffee powder to it and stir
7. You can add water if you want
8. You are done!

 

Take-Home

Stretchmark is easy to treat at the early stage and so this recipe is very effective in treating your stretch marks. If you follow the recipe provided above duly, you should be able to prepare this product without any problem.

HOW TO MAKE CREAM FOR DRY SKIN

There are different types of skin and so it is important to know your skin type to help choose the best product to give you perfect skin. In the case of making your product, particularly for skin care, it is important to know yourself very well to help you choose the right ingredients for your product.

Dry skin is prone to various skin diseases like eczema. If you have dry skin, you must know that it is extremely not good to use creams or lotions that are water-based. Using such creams and lotion will worsen your situation. It is, therefore, well-prepared cream that is not only to be able to deal with your facial situation. This article provides the recipe for preparing your cream or lotion if you have dry skin to help your skin from cracking and also from diseases like eczema. You can also use this recipe for business.

 INGREDIENTS

Various ingredients can prepare the cream for dry skin. So it is important to understand that, the under-listed chemicals are not the only chemicals or ingredients to be used for the preparation of cream for dry skins. All ingredients listed are purely organic and will have zero adverse effects on your skin and will provide you with the result you require for your skin.

1. Beeswax                      20 grams
2. Shea Butter                 10 grams
3. Coconut oil                 15 ml 
4. Vitamin E                    5 ml
5. Almond Oil                 15 ml 
6. Cetyl alcohol               100 grams (optional)
7. Emulsifying wax         100 grams (optional)

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

You will require the following equipment to make your cream. It should be noted that, if you are going to do it for commercial purposes, you must have dedicated equipment to ensure that you do not mix up your equipment with the equipment for the home.

Weighing sale: You will need a weighing to accurately weigh the ingredients to get a perfect result for the product

Saucepan: You will need a dedicated saucepan to do the melting of the ingredients to be used for the cream.

Source of heat: As you need a saucepan to melt the ingredients, you will also require heat to do the melting. You can do this on firewood, Coalport, electric stove, or a gas stove.

Spatula: You will also need something to do the stirring to enhance the mixing of the ingredients for the cream.

Containers or glass jar: You obviously cannot keep the product in the big saucepan you used to do the melting, so you will need a glass jar or plastic container to keep your cream in be used.

PROCESS/INSTRUCTIONS

Put a saucepan on the fire

 Place a saucepan on the fire and allow to heat for about 2 minutes. It is important to note that, you are not boiling this cream and so you do not have to let the chemicals be on the fire for a very long time to lessen the potency of some of the chemicals. The fire can be on low heat to warm the sauce to melt the chemicals very quickly for you.

Put the chemicals in the saucepan

Add your Beeswax, almond oil, argan oil, and jojoba oil. Allow it to melt completely and bring it down from the fire. It is advisable to put in the beeswax first before you add the rest of the chemicals. This is because beeswax will take a long time to melt and so when you add the rest of the ingredients, you will probably be lessening the potency of some of the chemicals. For instance the essentials in the recipe. So always make sure that you have the beeswax melt before you add the others.

You can equally melt only the beeswax first and then bring it down from the fire before you add the rest of the ingredients to avoid losing the potency of the chemicals.

Bring it down from the fire

After bringing it down, allow it to harden a bit, and with an electric hand, the mixer stirs the mixture very well for it to become smooth. You can add emulsifying wax and cetyl alcohol to it if you don't find the mixture to be smooth. When you add emulsifying wax to the mixture to soften the cream, it is the opportunity to add water to the mixture but it should be warm or hot water. This is because it will be difficult for the mixture to mix with the cold water.

To be on the safer side, you must put water into a saucepan on the fire, add your beeswax, emulsifying wax, and cetyl alcohol to it and then allow it to melt, and then bring it down from the fire and stir. You can leave it for it to cool down before you add the rest of the ingredients.

Add your essential oils and fragrance

There are various essential oils out there that are good for dry skin and if you lay your hands on any of these oils, you can add them to your cream at this stage and stir very well. Only be sure that the oil is indeed good for dry skin if not then do not use it. Add your tea tree and lemon oil to the mixture and stir very well. Pour into your container. You are done!

 TAKE HOME

The recipe and process provided above you should help you prepare your cream for your dry skin type to treat certain facial problems. You could also use this method to prepare a commercial product to make money to support yourself and your family. If you follow the process very well, you should be able to prepare a CREAM FOR DRY SKIN without any problem.

You should be very careful in the preparation product as you can burn yourself. Be sure to put on protective clothes and also keep the preparation process away from children. You should also try to keep the ingredients or raw materials away from children and even the reach of people just to be safe in the home.