Making Your Own Natural Body Care Products

with Author Deborah Dolen

Making your own natural and effective skin care products is very easy to do and produces a far better quality product

than any commercial brand typically ever will. Raising three girls-well, equated to four ladies wanting lots of lotion, balm

and body wash to name a few. We would go into Bath and Body Works TM, spend a few hundred dollars and still not

have everything we wanted. Had I known back then the same money could have gone to making gallons of lotion, balm

and even candles, I would have learned it very fast. Making your own product is a very empowering child-parent activity,

is extremely self rewarding and educational.

Deborah Dolen said in The Bathroom Chemist I start out teaching about fats. Fats, such as coconut oil, for example, are

materials that are not water soluble and the easiest place to begin to learn how to make your own body care products.

Lip balm, or balm “sticks” are not made how I initially envisioned they were made. I thought a big machine stuffs fat into jars and twist tube sticks. I did not know it was a simple process of warming fats and adding fat soluble ingredients, as

well as in some cases, adding an oil based flavor. Color can even be swirled in with a toothpick using inexpensive

lipstick for the tint.

Oil based items do not need a preservative. When you are dealing with just oil or fat bases, you do not have the myriad

of concerns you would have when dealing with water based formulas. Only age of oil (rancidity) can be a concern so

always try to ensure your oils and fats are as fresh as possible. Most oils have a year or two shelf life, but important to

know how long they sat in a warehouse before you secured them. Oils can be extended by adding a form of vitamin E

known as Tocopherol. Fats can be extended by very gentle warming and the same system. Rosemary Oleoresin

Extract is great, but I find a good oil based E Tocopherol just as good and easier to secure.

In my video I move a lot of warm oils into other oils using the same pipette. A few viewers saw that as

“transference”or“cross contamination” but I am saying that is not transference or of concern because I am not dealing with water or any water based items. After mastering balms, body butters and oil based salves, and bath bombs, I get

into teaching lotion and creme making. So much can be done with learning lotion-it equates to making body washes (by

adding a natural liquid soap) and/or cleansing milks, body scrubs, in some cases sunscreen type preparations. The

possibilities are just about limitless.

Making lotion or creme is learning how to make an “emulsion.” It is just oil and water as a basis. Learning how to make them not separate can be a challenge, but once you learn it, very rewarding. I dragged my feet for years on making

emulsions, my first attempts separated. But when I really focused on it-I learned it one hour.

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How to Make All Kinds of Candles | Deborah Dolen

“How to Make candles with Deborah Dolen is very fun and covers a broad range of candle making.

Soy candles, Ice candles, Sand candles – (made right on a beach,) chunk candles, pillar candles,

recycled wax candles, “candle in a minute,” beeswax candles and just about and “fat” that can be burned can make for a candle. Candles are basically all energy derived from a fat-in most cases we

know this as wax or oil by products. Deborah Dolen will tell you filming “How to Make Candles” was almost as fun as filming floral design 101 and 102. Part of the reason why is Deborah was able to

make on candle on her beach, in the film, called “making a sand candle.” basically creating a “mote” in sand, supporting a wick and then pouring hot wax into the void. Also covered is how to make

heavily scented candles, basically two ounces of fragrance oil per pound of wax.

Deborah’s all time favorite candle is the pillar chunk. This is because you can save scraps of all your

“retired” or “spent” candles and sort them in chunks by color-making sure the old wick, and debris are

removed. But the chunks set up nicely in a mold, more so if colors are selected in contrast-such as

purple and orange, and set around a new wick. At that point simple clear and new hot paraffin wax is

poured over and cooled. This usually results in a gorgeous bleed of colors and an almost tie dye

look. You can secure paraffin wax in the canning section of most grocery stores. It is typically sold by

the pound and used in jam and jelly making. The heat forces the colored chunks to “bleed” and often gives it a beautiful finished look.

For this reason Deborah just buys brightly colored votifs that are on sale. She will pull out the wicks

and store the votif wicks for other projects. The wax from the votifs she will gently smash and store in

a container of wax peices for that specific color. Often orange, purple and red are in her designs. She

likes chunk pillars so much she encourages her friends and family to save their spent candles and

give them to her. So, when she makes candles twice a year or so, she will make a new chunk pillar

as a gift to hand back to the person giving her spent materials.

“A Candle in a Minute” is simply arranging your wick up tight and taught (deborah secures the bottom

of her wicks with a large glue dot) and then pouring beaded wax around it the wick – while in a

container such as a jelly jar. Its best to pack the wax a little. Many waxes these days come in

“Pastilles” or little beads and even kids can do this project since it requires zero heat. The finished

product will burn nicely. When making any candle your choice of wick will be your most important

decision. A wick too small will have problems as well as a wick to large will burn your creation down

too fast. Always pay attention to your choice of wick. Deborah tends to like zinc wicks for natural or

refined waxes, although the rule of thumb is usually hemp wick for natural waxes such as soy.

Dolen has written many books on different topics including receipes, formulas of making beauty

products and innovative ideas of generate new things. So Take assistence of these books of Dolen

next time, when you think to try something new. Deborah Dolen’s work is available on Amazon Kindle and DPT Instant Download. In Europe, Deborah Dolen’s work is now available on Amazon UK and Amazon France

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