Making your own skincare products can be intimidating, but with only 5 ingredients you can easily whip this face cream up. Homemade anti-aging cream helps with fine lines and skin spots.

From my experience, creating your own toxin free skincare products is the most inexpensive way to go. This anti-aging cream has rosehip oil, shea butter, calendula hydrosol, and beeswax. These are all relatively inexpensive compared to the price you pay to buy other toxin free face creams.

When I was in my late 20s I realized I needed to up my skincare (and gut health) game. Our skin will tell us when something is wrong, so if you’re having a particularly cumbersome time with your skin, I’d encourage you to also focus on your gut and liver health! Part of working on these means ditching toxins that can work as hormone disruptors and kill good bacteria.

Ingredients for a Homemade Anti-Aging Cream

There are a lot of oils and options out there. Keep in mind, you can usually substitute things like mango or cocoa butter for shea butter or, in the case of carrier oils, argon or jojoba for rosehip. As much as I love coconut oil, my face does not. I have combination skin and if I use it on my oily sections, I shine like a piece of silver but if I use it on my dry areas, I end up with acne. Don’t get me wrong, I love it in my homemade whipped body butter, but if you’ve got skin like me, I’d opt to avoid coconut oil.

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Rosehip Oil

This carrier oil is packed full of antioxidants making it a powerhouse for your skin! Rosehip is good for all skin types and it’s not a pore clogging. It absorbs quickly into your skin and is especially useful for more mature skin. Hence, why it’s used in this recipe!

Shea Butter

Shea butter is gentle on skin, making it suitable to use on your face. I love shea butter and use it in my homemade whipped body butter too. It helps to repair skin, improving tone, while also providing hydration.

Beeswax

Beeswax does have skin benefits. It’s anti-inflammatory, has vitamin A, and helps lock moisture into your skin. This can be left out of your recipe, just keep in mind, your lotion maybe more soft as it’ll change the consistency.

Calendula Hydrosol

Instead of being super concentrated into an oil as essential oils are, hydrosols are more gentle and water based. Calendula hydrosol is made from boiling calendula flowers in water (you can actually DIY this if you have dried marigold [calendula] flowers!) Calendula hydrosol is used for soothing irritation (acne is a type of irritation on the skin) and promoting healthy skin.

Vitamin E Oil

This one is optional and I don’t opt to put it into my body butters, but I do for my face products. Vitamin E is great for you skin as it helps improve skin tone and promote skin rejuvenation. This cream’s recipe only calls for 5 drops, but it can be pricey so you may want to opt out.

Essential Oils

Although all of the above are great for your skin, there are also essential oils that also support healthy skin. Frankincense carterii (not to be confused with other types of frankincense) has been used in skincare, specifically for aging skin. This type of frankincense has also been used in Chinese medicine for trauma and bruises to the body.

Lavender is a calming essential oil and that includes for skin irritations and rashes. It is also anti-microbial making it a winner for the face or those with problem skin. Lavender can be found in skincare products because it may also help with fine lines and wrinkles.

Rose is another essential oil popular in skincare. It is a powerful antioxidant that may also help with fine lines, wrinkles, and dark bags. Rose can be pricey though, so when I buy it I usually opt for Eden’s Garden’s Rose-Bergamont blend to make it more affordable. It smells amazing but use caution if you plan to go outdoors as bergamont may make you more prone to burn in the sun!

In these sorts of recipes I love to use Eden’s Garden’s Age Defy blend. It smells great and is just what this cream is for.

Homemade Anti-Aging Cream

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

This homemade anti-aging cream can be used morning or night to help moisturize your fight. It's packed full of ingredients that may help to reduce fine lines, uneven skin tone, and wrinkles.

Materials

2 Tbsp shea butter
1/2 Tbsp beeswax
1 Tbsp calendula hydrosol
2.5 Tbsp rosehip oil
1 Tbsp arrowroot powder (optional)
5 drops vitamin E (optional)
10 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops frankincense essential oil

Tools

Double boiler set up*
Glass jar

Instructions

Melt beeswax and shea butter in double boiler.
Once melted, remove from heat and add rosehip, hydrosol, arrowroot powder, vitamin E oil, and essential oils in that order.
Stir together until well combined (you can tell by the arrowroot powder if it's stirred well enough.)
(optional) if you want to whip this cream, place in freezer until it's solid enough to push into but soft enough you can push into it. Whip with hand mixer or wire whisk on Kitchen aid.
Use on clean skin. Since lavender nor frankincense is phototoxic, you can use in the morning and at night.

Notes

For a double boiler, I have 1 larger pot I fill about 1/3 the way with water then I add a smaller pot on top of the water. This helps so you don't burn your shea butter and beeswax. You can do it without, but be very careful and stir throughout.

Some like to add a mason jar (not any glass jar, you want to make sure it can withstand heat) in a pot of water to melt. This makes me nervous because in canning you're told not to place a mason jar directly into a pot or it can break. But it's your kitchen so your call.