My first potion I made was from coconut oil and shea butter, I didn't write down the recipe at the time but I think I added some drops of Patchouli oil, Frankincense and lavender. The smell was heavenly but the big mistake I made was to melt only the coconut oil which I then whisked into the shea butter with a blender.
What I should have done was to melt both the oils and mixed them together as although the smell was beautiful and it moisturised my skin it's very grainy where the coconut hit the cold shea butter and set without combining properly, still lesson learnt.
My next potion was Eczema and Psoriasis cream I followed this recipe for Handmade Healing Cream the only modification was I added a teaspoon of Manuka honey, despite what they say about Neem oil having a pungent acrid smell I found it rather pleasant, to me it smelt of curry powder, and mixed with the other ingredients you couldn't really smell it at all. Neem oil is supposed to have amazing skin healing properties and works wonders on eczema and psoriasis apparently. The consistency of the cream is quite solid I have to scratch up some of the cream with my nails but once it touches your skin it melts really quickly. I used it avidly for a week twice a day and whilst my skin was more moist it didn't address the itching or irritation.
I may not have given it long enough to work I know I am a little impatient so I decided to make it again this time for my boss who suffers from Psoriasis, I modified the recipe and I added a lot more skin healing EO's namely:
5d Frankincense
5d Patchouli
5d Carrot Seed
5d Geranium Bourbon
5d Tea Tree
5d Cedarwood Oil
15g Neem oil instead of 10g
Oh and I left out the lavender only because I had added so many other EO's. Now I have been reading lately that with EO's less is more which goes against my ethos of 'if I add more it must be better' I think that is going to be the difficult part of working with EO's how many drops do you use? How do you know to use more of one and less of another? I suppose it comes with practice and trial and error. I have given this moisturiser potion to my boss so I will check on her progress tomorrow.
In my quest to find an anti itch cream I tried another recipe from Pinterest which was Homemade Natural Skin Cream I thought I'd give this one a go as it included Oats and I've heard good things about oats and soothing eczema. The cream again was quite a solid consistency and all the oats settled to the bottom but that's fine because the goodness had seeped out of the oats into the cream. I used that for a few days and to be honest I felt a bit itchier than usual not sure if that was just my stress levels or the cream but it certainly didn't ease my itching although my skin was softer.
Let's be clear I am not for one moment criticising these recipes or their claims they just haven't worked for me although I desperately wanted them too, I guess I just need to keep trying. :-(
Onwards and upwards as they say!
What I should have done was to melt both the oils and mixed them together as although the smell was beautiful and it moisturised my skin it's very grainy where the coconut hit the cold shea butter and set without combining properly, still lesson learnt.
My next potion was Eczema and Psoriasis cream I followed this recipe for Handmade Healing Cream the only modification was I added a teaspoon of Manuka honey, despite what they say about Neem oil having a pungent acrid smell I found it rather pleasant, to me it smelt of curry powder, and mixed with the other ingredients you couldn't really smell it at all. Neem oil is supposed to have amazing skin healing properties and works wonders on eczema and psoriasis apparently. The consistency of the cream is quite solid I have to scratch up some of the cream with my nails but once it touches your skin it melts really quickly. I used it avidly for a week twice a day and whilst my skin was more moist it didn't address the itching or irritation.
I may not have given it long enough to work I know I am a little impatient so I decided to make it again this time for my boss who suffers from Psoriasis, I modified the recipe and I added a lot more skin healing EO's namely:
5d Frankincense
5d Patchouli
5d Carrot Seed
5d Geranium Bourbon
5d Tea Tree
5d Cedarwood Oil
15g Neem oil instead of 10g
Oh and I left out the lavender only because I had added so many other EO's. Now I have been reading lately that with EO's less is more which goes against my ethos of 'if I add more it must be better' I think that is going to be the difficult part of working with EO's how many drops do you use? How do you know to use more of one and less of another? I suppose it comes with practice and trial and error. I have given this moisturiser potion to my boss so I will check on her progress tomorrow.
In my quest to find an anti itch cream I tried another recipe from Pinterest which was Homemade Natural Skin Cream I thought I'd give this one a go as it included Oats and I've heard good things about oats and soothing eczema. The cream again was quite a solid consistency and all the oats settled to the bottom but that's fine because the goodness had seeped out of the oats into the cream. I used that for a few days and to be honest I felt a bit itchier than usual not sure if that was just my stress levels or the cream but it certainly didn't ease my itching although my skin was softer.
Let's be clear I am not for one moment criticising these recipes or their claims they just haven't worked for me although I desperately wanted them too, I guess I just need to keep trying. :-(
Onwards and upwards as they say!
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