This is my absolute favourite cream recipe. It’s rich, it’s luscious, it leaves my skin silky smooth and it can be adapted in numerous ways. Though it has a higher oil content than creams which use emulsifiers and can therefore feel quite oily when applied, my experience is that it sinks in really well, especially when applied to damp skin and doesn’t leave any residue.
In some ways it is the most simple of the recipes and certainly the most natural as it uses no emulsifiers (except a little beeswax) and no synthetic preservatives. In other ways it is the most complicated as it requires waters and oils to mix and can take a few tries to get just right, though if you follow these instructions and use good quality ingredients it should turn out well first time.
Other pros include the fact that it is almost edible so fits with that old saying, ‘you shouldn’t put anything on your skin that you wouldn’t put in your mouth.’ The high oil content makes it great for dry skins or skin conditions – it’s the recipe I used to make my calendula and chamomile cream which you can see here and also this wonderfully protective and strengthening hand cream here. You only need to use a tiny amount so it lasts for ages and it has a lovely look and feel to it.
Cons are that it can be more expensive to make than many other creams which have a high amount of water and little infused oil or butters and it will not last indefinitely as it has no preservative. Also it can be too rich for some people who like very light creams or have oily skins. Finally this recipe requires a fairly decent blender, it doesn’t have to be top of the range but if it’s a very cheap one you may find it hard to keep the motor running for long and have to add small amounts of water at a time, turning the blender off in between which can increase the chances of it separating.
N.B. Being in Europe I do my measurements in grams rather than ounces. I hope that is not a problem for those in the US, there are online conversion charts or if that is confusing let me know and I will attempt to convert it myself for you.
Ingredients: (variations in brackets)
Waters
250ml Herbal infusion or floral water (or 200 ml waters with 50ml aloe vera juice)
1 tsp vegetable glycerine
Oils
175ml herbal infused oil (or plain base oil)
75g Coconut oil (or a mixture of coconut and cacao)
25g beeswax
Extras
5ml vitamin E
2.5ml Essential oil
Method:
Melt your beeswax and butters in a bain marie or double boiler, then add the liquid oils and allow to become completely liquified, like so.
Melted oils in a bain marie
Pour these oils into your blender and allow to cool.
Whilst that is happening mix together the waters. You can use just floral water but the glycerine does add an extra silkiness. Aloe vera is great to add for sensitive skins or use herbal tea cooled to room temperature (make it double strength) for additional therapeutic value.
After a short while, depending how warm your room is, the oils should turn from this…
In the bottom of the blender
To this…
Butters and oils starting to cool
Like in the picture below, it will appear to be setting but when you move the jug you see that it is still liquid though much thicker than when you first poured it in. Don’t let it over solidify, though there may be a small amount on the sides that is set. If so just get a small spatula or wooden chopstick and scrape it down – don’t worry if it looks a bit lumpy at this stage.
Opaque but still fluid
Now turn the blender on to a lowish speed and start to pour the waters in in a slow trickle. If the blender gets stuck turn it off, scrap the sides down with a spatula and turn it back on again adding a bit more of the water part at a time till the full amount is incorporated. After which the cream should look like this.
Mix in the vitamin E and essential oils of choice by hand and pour into suitable jars.
Thick but just about pourable!
Spoon the last bits in then use a chopstick to swirl the top so it looks like the icing on a cupcake.
Almost edible!
This cream contains no preservatives but should still last three months. If you live in a warmer climate it would be advisable to store it in the fridge. Actually I have never had mine go off and I’ve kept jars for at least 6 months but I wouldn’t want to make any promises.
You could add a synthetic preservative if you wanted to ensure they lasted longer. At the moment I have only given these to friends and family and a few clients who I know understand that they are all natural and may go off at some point. If I ever get round to setting up that etsy shop and selling them to folks that I don’t know personally, I may have to reassess this question. I would say if you are just making them for gifts or selling to people you know, then keep them lovely and all natural.
Wow! Wow! beautiful Lucinda. Definitely will try this especially since I already have all the ingredients at home, I am thinking of halving it though seems like a lot. Also I would try it in my food processor.
Yes you could try halving it, though if the base of your food processor is quite wide you may need the larger amount to get a good blending action. I have never tried in the food processor but I imagine it would work really well. I’ll have to try it to and we can compare notes. Good luck!
Wow looks incredible! amazing as xmas gifts in pretty glass jars wrapped up with ribbon etc! are you doing that? x x x x
Something like that yes! I’m doing a few bigger pots in nice jars and then some mini ones to go into little sets with cleansers, toners, face oils and other bits. Are you making any presents this year?
xxx
Do you suppose grapefruit seed extract could work as a preservative instead of something synthetic? That way you could still keep it natural and allow it to keep for longer period of time.
I love that you posted this right now because making a cream has been on my mind lately, thank you!
Hi Zane,
I mentioned grapefruit seed, grape seed and rosemary extracts in the ingredients section of my last past. There is a lot of research suggesting problems with grapefruit seed extract, it’s worth having a read, there is information available online. The other two would both work to prolong the shelf life as they are anti-oxidants and anti-bacterial but according to cosmetic testing companies they are not enough for a cream that is legally saleable. This is where the conundrum is for we who prefer things all natural! As I’m not selling them commercially then I never use synthetic preservatives but if I was, it is something I might have to consider. If you’re just making for friends and family then grape seed or rosemary extract should be fine.
I hope you cream making does well.
Oh My Goodness, this batch looks absolutely yummy!!! I am like so anxious to try this recipe. I do have a blender and all the ingredients, but Lucinda, would it still work if I used a hand mixer? Or would that be more work/too cumbersome? I’m not much of a blender person, but feel like an expert with the hand mixer!!! (I wonder if that’s another part of my control issue!) Anyways, I will definitely try it and with the blender. Thanks so much in advance for taking the time to share your knowledge. I’s thrilled I found your blog/site.
Hi Irma,
I have used a hand blender before and it came out fine but you might need to half the recipe depending on the size of the container you have. Hand blenders are so convenient aren’t they. I have heard it said that the blender is the modern witches cauldron and I could’t agree more! It’s the one piece of equipment I would feel lost without.
Let me know how you get on.
I just wanted to say that being lucky enough to have a pot of this cream (thank you Lucinda!) I really can’t praise it highly enough. So for those of you thinking of making some, do do do! It is absolutely beautiful to use, the texture is comforting and luxurious, the fragrance is delicious (mine is Rose and Tilia) and applied to damp skin as suggested, it sinks in and leaves my skin feeling super soft and moisturised all day, such a godsend in this cold weather for a Rosacea sufferer! After years of trying everything from plain E45 cream to Dr Hauschka’s Rose Day cream I feel I finally have something my skin loves and I love to use. Thank you again Lucinda and may you never stop creating beautiful products! With love and peachy skin, Rachel Xx
Ooo thank you Rachel for your kind words! I am glad you are loving the cream and that you skin is feeling perfectly peachy!
Lots of love xxx
Very inspiration and I love the step by step photos. It will definitely influence my play in a couple of weeks!
- Michael
Great, I hope all goes well. I love your crow photo by the way!
I am so doing this Sunday, when I have the day to myself to play in the kitchen! I have both the infused oils and actually make a salve with both chamomile and calendula infused oils and beeswax, which I made “loose” so it goes on smoothly and not too thick, but I have been wishing to try creams, and even bought a second hand blender just for that purpose. I just was always unsure of it, and didn’t want to “waste” the oils. With your generous sharing, I now feel confident to try my hand at it xxx Will be the perfect addition to the herbal pampering baskets I want to give out at the holidays! Thank you also for sharing how to make the little swirl on top:D herbal and honey hugs and much love to you!
I know what you mean. I messed up a few times before developing this variation and hated wasting my precious ingredients so I tried to use them anyway, even though they were separated.
Needless to say i enjoy them so much more now.
Let me know how it goes.
Lots of love to you and all the wonderful cats xxxx
Oooh such beautiful looking creams! And I love all your colorful jars too
I’ve never tried making a recipe like this without an emulsifier – I fell in love with Rosemary’s recipe years back and haven’t done anything else since. I guess its probably time to branch out and be a little more adventurous huh! If I get done my other tasks for the day, I think I might treat myself to a little cream making later on 
Love to you,
D
Hey Danielle,
xxxx
What type of emulsifiers do you usually use? I hope you get chance to try this one out and enjoy the results.
Happy Sunday to you
As I type this, my beeswax and jojoba butter are melting on the hob for my variation on your gorgeous second cream recipe – I’m using rosewater and plain sweet almond oil for this batch as it is a trial run, but if it works out well (and I suspect it will since its one of your recipes) then I am going to have a go at making chamomile infused oil to add to it
In fact, I might have a go at chamomile and rose infused oil this afternoon just for the fun of it… rainy days stuck indoors are kinda fun at the moment 
Hey Ali, how did you get on? I hope they turned out beautifully and you are now happily smearing yourself with cream!
Chamomile infused oil is one of my absolute favourite oils. I think I’m addicted to chamomile in general at the moment. I knew it had got bad when I found myself sucking on the tea bag at work after I’d finished my mug of chamomile tea!
Let me know how you get on and if you have any queries.
xx
This looks fascinating – I think I’m going to need to try it.
Thank you for posting this.
I was just curious isn’t vitamin E a preservative? This cream looks lucius I look forward to whipping it up.
Hi Trisha,
Vitamin E is an antioxidant so it will prevent oils from going rancid but it is not a preservative in the broader sense as it is not anti-microbial so wont protect against bacteria or moulds.
Hi, very well formulated recipe! Can’t wait to try it! How long would this cream last in the fridge?
Again, beautiful!
Hi Alyssa,
I would expect it to last about three months but shelf time can vary a lot depending on the ingredients you use. For example if you use pure spring water or floral water it would last longer than if you use tap water or herbal teas as your water part. I have had creams last 6 months out of the fridge before but then others that start to smell a bit different after three. I have usually used all mine up before they go off though so just make a smaller quantity if you don’t think you’ll use it all.
Hope that helps, sorry it’s a bit vague!
I just made this cream and it turned out perfect! I used soy wax, so the color was slightly lighter, and the consistency is a little closer to lotion (maybe because I just finished making it, and the blender got a little warm). I used orange essential oil and grapefruit, bergamont floral water so the fragrance is very summer-like with the coconut oil. I love it! Thanks for the info.
Great, I’m so glad you found it useful. Your cream sounds divine.
HI Lucinda,
Hope you are well! This cream is still my favourite from our workshop day : )
Laura
Hi Lucinda,
I made this recipe a few days ago – it’s the first time I’ve tried to make a cream and I’m really happy with how it turned out! Though I found the water has started separating from the oils – do you have any ideas for how to prevent this from happening in future?
Thanks,
Jolie
Hi Jolie,
The only times I have had a problem with separation have been mostly because the oils weren’t cooled in the blender first.. Another possibility is there were still little bits of unemulsified water in the blender at the sides or the bottom, to rectify this you need to scrape down the sides and mix well with a spatula before blending again. The other is if the cream is chilled at too low a temperature in which case it can go a little grainy almost, with tiny water droplets separating out. I don’t know if that could have been the case with you? You could try warming the pot in a dish of hot water and mixing vigorously but this doesn’t always work.
Sometimes it takes a few tries to get just right anyway.
It may have been a combination of the oils not being cool enough (I let them cool, but could have left them a bit longer) and the cream getting too cold (it’s winter now where I am and one jar of cream started solidifying when I left it in the bathroom!).
Anyway, thanks for your help Lucinda – I’m really looking forward to trying it again!
Dear lucinda,
I am very very happy with how this turned out. It does seperate a little when i put it in the fridge but if i stir around a bit its just fine!!!when i use it for about 20 mins my skin is a bit red like a slight hyperemia on the cheeks. Have u come across something like this? I didnt have. Calendula so i used a mallow instead. Could that be the reason?
Thank you so much,
Lucinda
Hi Lucinda,
Hmm I haven’t come across it making anyones skin red, though it certainly seems to give it a bit of a glow. I have a few people with very sensitive skin using it and they haven’t reported any redness though I will have to quiz them further.
Marshmallow is generally very soothing and anti-inflammatory so it would surprise me if that was causing the problem but everyone is different so it is hard to be sure.
Are you using completely pure essential oils?
Sorry I can’t be more help but without looking at all the ingredients you are using it is hard to say.
Perhaps try messing around with the ingredients a bit and seeing if it helps at all.
Let me know if there is anything else I can help with.
Lucinda x
Dear Lucinda,
Thanks for the reply.
At the moment i am using it without essential oils.
I used herbal infusions of chamomile and mallow, and my base oils were almond, coconut and rosehip.
My skin is actually very sensitive, but besides the rosie cheeks, it doesnt give me any irittations and that is a relief!
I will be making a new bach soon and will also try the balm!!! Thank you for all the lovely recipes! Very inspirational!
I am so glad there was another response to this cream making recipe, because it got me to re-read things. i have made this recipe 3 or 4 times now, and it has stayed blended only once (though it is still my FAVORITE cream). I just realized that I have not tried scraping down the sides of the blender while making it; I will try this. I have made it with various oils and waters, but not calendula or mallow: I think my favorite so far is scented with lavendar and rosemary essential oils – love, love, love it! Kathy
Hi Kathy.
Umm I bet the rosemary and lavender cream is wonderful!
Are you making sure the oils are well cooled before blending in the waters? That is usually the problem if ever mine separate.
I’m glad you are enjoying it though.
Hi Lucinda, I live in Florida (US) so it is pretty warm much of the time, even with air conditioner. I also have hurried the cream a little, so will take my time next time. This is now the only face and body cream my husband and I use, and my daughter has also made it for her family. Thanks again!
Hi Lucinda!! This is my first time in your blog and I am absolutely fascinated!!!! Are you a chemist? because I am… and You use some tricks that I usually do thinking of oils and waters properties. I have experienced with emulsions and the trick is temperature!!! just like you said…it´s necesary that both fases (acuous and oleous) are at similar temperature. So you can heat the waters/herbal teas a little and I think it will certainly create the emulsion without problems. I started to enjoy this homemade cosmetics world due to my very very sensitive and allergic skin. I made some products for family and clients, but I always need to use preservatives because here, in Venezuela, the weather is hot. However, when I make gifts, I use tiny jars that ensure total consumption of cream within 3 months.
I will try your wonderful recipe, but I need to plan what kind of herbal or floral infusions I will use.
Thanks for sharing your experience step by step.
Best regards,
Dorly
Hi Dorly,
No I am not a chemist so it’s great to hear from you and know this is the same trick that you use. I have just learnt through trial and error.
Yes I imagine in Venezuela they wouldn’t last long without preservatives, I guess there have to be some pros to living in a cold climate!
Let me know how you get on with the creams. If you have sensitive skin infusions of chamomile, rose or calendula might be nice to try.
Take care,
Lucinda
Hi Lucinda!! I would first like to say that your website brings an overwhelming calm over me, I can not even describe it. I can picture you speaking with an accent and it just hits the spot for me! I just made this cream for the first time and I am obbsessed with it! As for the oils, I mixed coconut oil with jojoba and grapeseed oil. The liquids, I steeped 4 times the amount of chamomile in half a cup of water with rosemary and thyme…love the soothing effect it has on my blemishes. I then added rose water and aloe vera juice as well. I added lavender oils, mint oils, and lemon for the scent…only thing is it seems a bit too liquidy where your pictures have a more whipped type of look. Any pointers?
Hi Yana, that is wonderful to hear.
Your cream ingredients sound beautiful, it must smell amazing!
The only thing I can imagine is that you didn’t add quite enough beeswax or there was a little too much water. Sometimes measuring equipment can vary a bit (despite being supposedly standard!) so I’d suggest next time just adding a little less water or a little more wax and seeing how it turns out. Perhaps if you live in a very warm climate it could be preventing it setting too.
Sorry I can’t be more help, it’s hard to know without seeing in person.
x
Thank you so much Lucinda, I don’t know how I missed this earlier!! Less water and more wax did the trick, I have the perfect batch, I am so happy about it! Finding your recipe was truly fate:) Hope you are doing well, take care!
Hi Lucinda,
I just stumbled across your blog and have been browsing for a couple of hours now. Thank you for sharing your skills!
I have just come back from a very long and very costly appointment with a herbalist, because my fiance has severe eczema and nothing seems to be soothing it!
GOOD TIP: He made us up a simple mix of vegetable glycerin and peppermint oil, which has worked wonders for the itching!!
But there wasnt much else, besides advice on what foods to avoid.
I wanted to try and make a cream or salve which is nourishing and easily absorbed by the skin.
I would like to try and make this cream and luckily I already have most of the ingredients at home, but can it be made without beeswax?
Myself and my fiance are vegan so we normally avoid beeswax.
If there is not an alternative; we will use beeswax for medicinal purposes, but I just wondered if it could be replaced with a vegan alternative.
Metala
Hi Metala,
l have made this cream several times with soy wax and it works fine. Mine is a little more of a lotion consistency, which is great because I put it in a squeeze bottle. I LOVE this recipe, and have stopped buying lotions and face moisturizers alltogether. Thanks, Lucinda!
Thanks for that Kathy!
I have only ever made this with beeswax as it tends to emulsify better. Apart from some local bee products I am also vegan so I’ll be interested by how you get on. I’ll try the soy wax version sometime too! You could also try candellia wax but I haven’t tried it myself to advise you on how it will turn out.
Good luck with the cream for your fiance. There are lots of lovely herbs and oils that can help eczema. Try adding some nourishing oils like hemp and rosehip and lovely infused herbs like calendula, chamomile, lavender etc.
Take care.
Thanks for this recipe and details for making, I will be trying it this evening. Do you know if this would be the correct base for an exfoliator?
I tried to make an exfoliator using air dried bilberry but it seperated at the end, do you have any experience of this? Thanks Lucinda, this is such a helpful site!
Hi Layla,
This is quite a rich base cream so I’m not sure it would work that well for an exfoliator. The exfoliators I have made all use more of an oil or glycerine and oil base. I’m not sure exactly what you are wanting to make though.
Without knowing what recipe you followed it is hard to say why it separated.
if you let me know some more details I will try to help if I can.
All the best.
Hi Lucinda! I have a question about putting aloe Vera juice into my face cream. Do you use organic aloe Vera juice? Because aloe Vera juices I see in stores have preservatives in them and I don’t want to put that on my face! Some organic ones online have citric acid on them is that safe on the face?
Also I have these carrier oils at home: jojoba oil, sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, olive oil, argon oil and coconut oil.and essential oils of lavender geranium ylang ylang and patchouli. Would it be okay to mix those all together for a dry skin with acne cream? And do you know anything about those essential oils I have Maybe I shouldn’t add certain ones in?
Thanks so much I look forward to ur reply!
Hi Avery,
I would avoid heavier oils like olive for an acne prone skin as they can be clogging and stick to the lighter oils like coconut or grapeseed and jojoba which, though quite rich, is easily absorbed by the skin. You may find this cream too rich and prefer something without the beeswax but if your skin is dry it may be just the thing.
Patchouli and lavender are great for skins prone to acne, both are anti-microbial and patchouli is astringent. Geranium and Ylang Ylang are both balancing on sebum production so would also be useful for skin that is both dry and prone to spots.
The aloe is a tricky one. I get an organic one that is 99.9% pure aloe and just has a very small amount of a safe and fairly natural preservative in it. Most in the shops have various gelling agents and preservatives in so you have to look around. The only way to get 100% pure is to harvest it from your own plants and use immediately but I don’t grow enough aloes for this to be feasible.
Take care and good luck with your making!
alright thanks so much i wont add the olive oil. i heard coconut oil can be clogging too so i might leave that out! ill stick too jojoba sweet almond, grapeseed and vitamine e. i read grapeseed dries out skin tho so maybe ill just add a bit of it. and the essential oils ill just add a couple drops each? it seems they are all astringent though wouldnt that dry out my face more? or becuase i have butters and oils they will moisturize my face while the essential oils stop the acne?
also i have shea butter and cocoa butter i was going to add but i read cocoa butter is comodegenic so ill proly just add shea butter?
what does the ph of the finished product have to be? a lady told me “It is the combination of ingredients that keep them all stable and the ph of the finished product, and the sterile technique used while creating the product” this sounds so complicated
That’s interesting, I have always found coconut oil to be light and easily absorbed and shea butter to be much more clogging. And though grapeseed is light it shouldn’t dry your skin out.
I understand that much information is conflicting which is why there is no match for personal experience. What I did when I wanted to understand more about the base oils and found the info out there to be insufficient or confusing was sit down with a selection of oils and apply them to my skin for several days, then try others. With many it was obvious immediately which suited me and which didn’t and I learnt much more than from a book. Rub some coconut in to your skin and some shea butter in another area, you’ll know which one you prefer pretty quickly.
Don’t worry about how complicated it seems. just try some things out.
None of the essential oils you mention should dry your skin out in small quantities. Why not make up the cream without the essential oils, pour it into small pots and add a couple of drops of different oils or combinations to each one, then you can try them all and decide which suits you best.
Cream making can be as complicated or as simple as you want it to be. The exact Ph is important when using some of the emulsifiers and preservatives but I have never tested the ph of this particular cream and never had any problems with it.
Hi, your blog for making hand cream is fantastic I have ordered the ingredients I don’t have and wait eagerly to try it out.
The job I have involves washing my hands numerous times a day and really takes its toll on my poor skin so I get through a lot of hand creams but I find that they either smell nice or work well, so I’ve decided to try and make my own and your recipe looks perfect for what I’m after. I was wondering, do you know if it would drastically affect the ingredients if I froze them? As I can only carry a little at work with me at a time I was thinking of making a batch, putting it into small containers and freezing them then taking one out every so often. Thank you, Zoë
Hi Zoe,
Well I can honestly say I have never tried to freeze it so I can’t be sure but I imagine it might separate a bit as the fats and water will freeze at different rates.
You could try putting in a small amount of a safe preservative. It’s always nicer to make things completely naturally but you only use a few drops and it does make things more practical. Otherwise you have to use it all up fairly quickly. I mentioned a few different preservatives in this post here:
http://whisperingearth.co.uk/2011/12/04/how-to-make-creams-part-i-intro-and-ingredients/
All the best and I hope it goes well!
Hi, Lucinda. I just stumbled across your blog and I’m excited to bring so many of your wonderful thoughts and influences into my daily life. Thank you for the time and effort you put into your posts.
Can’t wait to try your cream recipe. I tire of the endless creams that only accentuate my rosacea and $$ wasted. Any specific ingredient suggestions for rosacea sufferers?
Hi Pegi,
I have made this for a few people with rosacea and usually use a combination of rose water (make sure its a pure one) and strong tea of lime blossom (that’s linden flower in the US) as the water part along with the aloe vera. Then I use rose or calendula in apricot oil which is a lovely base oil for sensitive skins. If you can’t find or don’t want to make infused oil on its own then just stick with plain apricot. As the solid fat coconut oil is best as it is cooling. Rose essential oil is expensive but makes a wonderful anti-inflammatory addition.
Hope that’s helpful. All the best.
I can’t wait to try it. Thank you for the reply and suggestions. Can you also suggest a reputable supplier in the US?
Pegi,
I am in the US and there are many great places to shop from, but I happen to be sitting here with Mountain Rose Herbs catalog alongside me! http://www.mountainroseherbs.com
You should find what you need there and they believe in ORGANIC!!! : )
(…hope you don’t mind me answering, Lucinda!)
and Lucinda~
… LOVE that I just found your site! wonderful!!! I was the winner of this recipe of Rose Cream from another blogger/herbalist that obtained it from you. I am thrilled as is everyone else that tries it! I esp loved that someone else had made it and I could easily find whether I loved it or not without going to the time and expense of trial and error as I would have to with so many other recipes! Fantabulous, esp with our single digit temps, drying the skin, which is happening right now! : )
I can’t wait to see what else is on your site!!!!
Thanks for sharing and Blessings galore!
ti
Wonderful, thank you for that Ti! And Pegi, I’m so sorry for not replying sooner, I missed this somehow.
I have never bought any ingredients from the US suppliers as I am in the UK here but the one I do hear recommended a lot is Mountain Rose Herbs so that sounds like a good place to start.
I’m so glad you like the cream Ti and it’s always nice to try things before you buy loads of ingredients that just end up sitting on the shelf isn’t it.
With love to you both x
Thanks so much, Lucinda, for sharing your knowledge and experience freely! I have had fun experimenting with this cream recipe and my family has been very pleased with the results. I used rose infused oil, beeswax from my neighbor who is a beekeeper, and aloe vera gel mixed with camomile tea for one recipe, and another similar one with lavender oil. I blended the ingredients in a food processor using the whipping attachment so the cream is lovely and fluffy. I found that it worked better not to cool down the wax/oil mixture before blending with the waters–adding the waters cools it enough, and when I cooled it beforehand, the mixture separated.
I look forward to trying more of your recipes and suggestions!
Hi Gina,
Your recipes sound beautiful! That’s so interesting that you found it better not to let it cool too much. I always find that if I don’t, that is when it separates. Maybe it is to do with the different equipment we are using. Or perhaps your water part is hotter when you are blending.
Thanks for sharing your experience as it’s great to hear what works for different people.
All the best.
Is it ok to say I love you even though I don’t know you? How have I managed to not find this site until now!! I usually have to go through umpteen sites and compare the info I find…..you have so much info and so many variations, everything I need is on your site. I never thought you could make a cream without adding additions eg e.wax. Thank you so much for sharing. By the way do I have to use the beewax and should I keep it in the fridge to stop it separating? Keep up the good work girl. Ooooohhhhhh and also, can I add manuka to it?
Hi Latoy,
Yes it is and thank you very much!
You do really need the beeswax in this recipe because it is the ingredient that helps hold everything together. You don’t need to put it in the fridge but if you live in a warm climate it is wise to do so and will increase the shelf life. Let it cool to room temperature before putting it in the fridge though or it will actually separate more easily.
Take care and thanks for your lovely comment.
Forgot to say that manuka would be a lovely addition. Just a little though or it might end up a bit sticky!
I tried this recipe and it’s PERFECT!!! I absolutely loooove the cream! but I made a smaller quantity, so I found out (the hard way) that a stick blender works better with smaller amounts. I’m trying it again today, but using home made coconut milk instead of floral water. thanx so much for the recipe!
Oo wow, it sounds divine with homemade coconut milk. I might have to give that a go.
Hi Lucinda,
This cream is beautiful. I used an electric handheld mixer instead of blender. Do you think it’s yields the same amount to a blender? I love the consistency and how easy a mixer is to clean rather then blender, but am curious if it doesn’t pump quite the same amount of air?
Love to hear your reply,
Summer
Hi Summer,
Well I haven’t ever done it with a mixer so I can’t be sure but I would guess that the amount is similar as it doesn’t get that light and fluffy in the blender. At some point I will have to experiment and give you a proper answer!