How to make: Natural Skin Care Products

Jo from Earthbound Organics shows us how you can have your own apothecary by planting desired flowers such as chamomile and calendula on the borders of your woodlands. In this video Jo makes a skin cream using dried calendula flowers, beeswax and cold pressed oil.
With thanks to Jo Ordoñez at Earthbound Organics
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[@GunnerGibbons]

How excellent. I do all you mentioned In your vid but just in cheaper simpler way. Thank you

[@sonyam8]

More please!

[@simonbrothersgaming7916]

How long do they last without mould or anything?

[@pilgrimcarolee7294]

Have you made a book? I would like to know your recommend on a nook if you have not made one.

[@spiritedadventure7662]

Always great to see new ways to use our wonderful and varied plants. Thanks. Are you going to follow up this video with more?

[@mercury2829]

Which oil u have used

[@amandag5072]

What about a preservative? Any skin care product which has water added must have a preservative added.

[@jeanpoints7204]

Agree, even if the product is kept in a fridge it will start to deteriorate after about 2 days, especially with plant matter in it. A product with water content should really have a preservative for safe use. Essential oils and grapefruit seed extract are often suggested but are not preservatives.

[@joannecarroll5504]

@@jeanpoints7204 & Amanda G - It's not just water, but distilled Rosewater; distilled being the minimum cleanliness standard that medicines are mixed with. Rosewaters also vary from generic to commercially produced brands, containing concentrations of Rose Oil from 10% - 50% & further, depending on local regulatory requirements, may already contain 15% ethanol. Both Rose EO & Rose Oil Absolute are broad spectrum anti-microbials. Rose EO is one of the most highly concentrated known EOs, in that there is only about 1% of oil holding all the pharmacological goodies together (things like analgesics, anti-virals, anti-microbials, hypnotics, neuro-pharmagologicals - all documented in current science journals & used in traditional medicine for millennia). I'd suggest she's either using 50% concentration Rosewater, or Rosewater with ethanol already added (or even both lol) & that the additional ingredient which she didn't describe was just more Rose Oil to increase the concentration to her calculated required strength, thus ensuring that her additional ingredients would also be adequately preserved.

[@exploreseafaring]

Do you have to have some sort of formal certification to sell oils and lotions made.

[@jeanpoints7204]

Yes, each product has to have a Cosmetic product safety report. All the ingredients have to have an SDS. All have to be approved by a chemist and then properly labelled to comply with all the cosmetic safety regulations. All the ingredients made here would have to be safety tested before being added to a product. This is really showing what you can do for home use only. It costs quite a bit to get all the correct legal bits in place to be able to bring a product to market. If you look at website "the soap kitchen", there is a section on cosmetic safety assessments. Plush Folly also run a course on the cosmetic regulations as well. And all the products have to have insurance for the safety assessments to be valid.

[@exploreseafaring]

@@jeanpoints7204 Thanks. It never ceases to amaze me how much red tape it takes to do anything. I'll definitely be giving some of these a go for myself though.