© Rebecca Midkiff 2011
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Penny’s Favorite Lotion
Every Christmas and Birthday my friend Penny asked me to make her more of the lovely light face cream. She said her friends started asking her what she was using after about 2 weeks as her skin tone has improved so much. Now I have to make it for her partner too as he won’t use anything else. If you mix your emulsion with a mixer at over 3000 rpms the lecithin will form lipsomes and assisti in the delivery of active ingredients through the skin.
| Ingredients | % of total |
Function |
| Oil Phase 2 | ||
| Safflower Oil | 12 | Emollient |
| Shea Butter | 6 | Emollient |
| Sorbitan Monostearate | 6 | Primary emulsifier |
| Polysorbate 60 | 0.50 | Primary emulsifier |
| Vitamin E Oil | 0.50 | Antioxidant |
| Modified Soy Lecithin | 3 | Active ingredient |
| Vitamin C Ascorby Palmitate (*) | 1 | Active ingredient |
| (*) do not heat with oils, add after oils are heated and before you combine the water/oil | ||
| Water Phase 1 | ||
| Unrefined Honey | 3 | Humectant with Active Ingredients |
| Green Tea Extract i | 3 | Antioxidant |
| Panax Ginseng Extract | 3 | Active ingredient |
| Provitamin B5 | 3 | Active ingredient |
| Deionized Water | to 100% | Dilutent |
| Final Phase 3 | ||
| Lavender Oil | up to 1% | Active ingredient |
| Geogard Ultra (recommended for creams and lotions) |
1.50 | Preservative |
Instructions
- Heat your water and Oil phases separately to 65-70degrees Centigrade.
- Combine your oil and water ingredients and blend for 5 minutes. Try not to get air into the emulsion.
