I love to make my own skincare from the herbs I grow in my garden. The recipes for these products can be found below. Flowers and other aromatic plants are very suitable for infusing in oil which then forms the base of creams, salves, lotions and soaps.
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Thanks for watching. Here are the recipes. The amounts are the ones that I used for six jars of cream but you can reduce or increase the amounts as you wish.
Rose Skin Cream
12 tablespoons Rose Infused Organic Sweet Almond Oil
6 tablespoons grated organic Cocoa Butter
6 tablespoons of Aloe Vera Gel
5 drops of Grapefruit Seed extract (Citricidal) and/or 1 Vit E capsule
Organic Rose Essential oil
Place the Rose infused oil into a bowl with the cocoa butter. Place in a bain marie until the cocoa butter has melted. Mix together and then place in the fridge until the mixture looks opaque – this takes about a half hour. Mix well until it resembles whipped cream. Add the Aloe Vera Gel and beat together well. To preserve, add the contents of 1 Vitamin E capsule and/ or the 5 drops of Citricidal. Mix/Beat well. Add the essential oil, (NB DO NOT use fragrance oil, you must use an essential oil, organic if possible). Spoon into your jars and label.
Lavender and Oatmeal Soap
1000g of Lavender infused organic olive oil
250g of Organic Coconut oil
450mls Lavender Bud tea
172g Caustic Soda
Handful of organic oats
Organic Lavender essential oil
Add the coconut oil to the Lavender infused olive oil and warm gently until the coconut oil melts. At the same time, strain the Lavender tea into a jug and add the lye. Stir well. Beware of the fumes – keep windows and doors open. When both mixtures reach approximately 50 degrees pour the lye mixture into the oil mixture and stir. Using a stick blender, blend the mix until it resembles a thick custard and a trail dripped over the surface stays on the surface. Now mix in the oats and then the essential oil. Pour into your moulds – I use washed and dried milk cartons with one side cut out.
Cover with baking paper and then with a towel or blanket for at least 24 hours. Remove from the moulds and slice into bars of soap. Allow to be air dried – I use a cake cooling tray – for a minimum of six weeks.
I hope you enjoy making these for your skin, for your loved ones. Feel empowered knowing that you know exactly what is in these skin care products.
Thanks so much for watching. Have a great week!
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36 Comments
Hi Terri – Everything looks so good and healthy. Gonna be some great soap and face cream. Love watching you make things. Hugs to you and the dogs! 😊💕🐶
Love the face cream, looks so soft and rich of moisture, I already make the soap have done all year, it’s so soft and luxurious, I’ll never go back to store bought soap again ❤- loved the expression on the little dogs face 😂😂❤
Soap be made without lye? Thank you for all your work.
Thank you so inspiring ❤
I can smell those beautiful soaps and creams in my dreams! Forget about dinner, let's make soap 🧼. Joking aside, it's great being invited into your cozy kitchen after a windy day in the garden. Some perfect gifts for self and loved ones. Thank you Terri.
You are always such an inspiration Terri! You look so glamorous too…what an advertisement for your wonderful, natural products ❤
Thank you Terri. I might just try some of your recipes. Sounds gorgeous.
Thanks Terry I really enjoyed this week thanks for share this wonderful recipe. Muchlove 🌟❤🌟
Thank you Terri for some great ideas. I was wondering if I could make these with dried flowers? Best wishes x
What joy, what warmth, what pleasure your delicious video’s and your beautiful animals bring to my heart. Thank you 🙏🏼
Can you use soda crystals in the soap Terri, or is that different?🙏🌸
Hi Terri thanks for the awesome video, your videos always make me feel so comforted! I have two questions the first is why does anything I make with shea butter smell overpoweringly like the shea butter? And the second one is yesterday I made some calendula soap and I decided to put some honey into it and it just got hotter and hotter and kind of curdled. It even started smoking! What happened did the honey react with the lye? Really appreciate your wisdom
Thank you Terri! Wonderful to watch this and always inspiring 🍃🍂!
Terri, thank you for such inspiring videos you are making. I am Ukrainian and I fled from war in my country, and Im very homesick. Irish nature is the thing that helps me with anxiety and sorrow, and eventually I ve found your youtube page. You are very posotive and wise person, your garden reminds me my own garden and give me hope. Thank you!
Thank you Terri for another great video! I'm looking forward to making my own natural skin care products myself
It's also so nice to watch your beautiful dogs playing around in the garden! I really enjoy seeing them having fun!
Lots of love from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thank you beautiful lady. Wish i could buy some of your soap. These soul enriching videos make my day!😇🥰💛💚💜
I looked at your web site but couldn't find where I could purchase your soaps and face cream. Do you sell them on line? I'd like some for my daughter's birthday in January. Thanks.
You have inspired me to make some of my own tinctures! I just bought some bottles to make thyme, marigold, and rosemary tinctures!
Love this,,thank you for sharing. I will be making some lovely soap x
Such a beautiful video 💚🌿
Thank you thatwas a great Idea and learning more about 🧼 soap, have wonderful week Danu!
Beautiful 🌷 Thank you so much Terri 🌷🌷🌷
I love and appreciate you and all you do to teach and share.
Soap making looks fairly easy….,watching you. Thanks.
Those dogs! ❤️
Wow I loved watching this! I've longed for years to make my own soap, but I've been nervous about using lye as I have heard so many horror stories about it being dangerous! I grow lots of my own herbs too so I'm feeling that I might just try this 💜🌹🌺🌻
So happy you posted this simple recipe for soap with measurements! Ill definitely be trying this
So soothing and relaxing!!! I love to make rose water toner that is also infused with lavendar. You have inspired me to try my hand at making soaps and creams 🙂
Hiya Terri, enjoyed watching and learning as always with your videos. All that willow for projects. Love the soap, and can now understand all that goes into the homemade soaps and why they do cost a bit more, so much work into the craft, well deserved. I have noticed that as I age my skin has changed and not in a good way grr! Lol soo any help is most appreciated. Blessings to you and yours Thankyou Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦
What a lovely time I had watching your film. From the winds in the willows 🙂 to your cozy kitchen complete with adorable doggy helpers. I use all natural face and body products they are the best, I have not tried making my own yet but you inspired me to try it soon. I do make a natural room freshener with cinnamon and ginger perfect for this time of year and peppermint /spearmint for the bathroom. Your beautiful creams remind me of the Boots line from long ago " Original Formula " it was a fav of mine ….
Blessings and Love from Wpg Canada
Denise xx
Really enjoyed that video.❤
Oh iam so pleased I've found you now to work on my own soaps
Your cream and soap look wonderful,I really must try making soap.The thing I dislike about making cream is the washing up ,we have septic tank drainage and so all the greasy residues have to be scalded out before they can be washed🙁…….the joys of country life
Thanks for sharing! What was the ingredient in the white bottle with the red lid
A lovely podcast. Great ideas. Thanks Terri
Beautiful soaps, thank you. Blessings from USA Virginia.