How To Make DIY Face Cream At Home: New Recipe For 2024 (2024)

It’s been nearly two years since I posted my new DIY face cream recipe. It’s not so new anymore, it seems! So, I decided to do another update. Each time I take a pass at this formula, I do my best to improve it. New ingredients, new benefits, new skins! Or at least that’s my mantra.

So, let me know how you find this natural homemade face cream. Inevitably, I’ll be back to replace it again in the next year or two. But until then, let me know what you think of the new formula. I’m so excited to hear what you think!

Introduction

Here’s how to create your own natural, homemade face moisturizer at home! Say goodbye to expensive store-bought creams and hello to a natural, healthy glow!

Like the popular homemade wrinkle cream, the recipe below is great for reducing and preventing wrinkles; it’s also non-greasy and absorbs quickly into the skin. I often apply this anti-aging cream after using my homemade anti-aging serum or facial oil as it helps it penetrate the skin more quickly and it eliminates the oiliness.

So, I will show you how to make my Rose Anti-aging Cream for mature skin. Then, keep reading because, after that, I have eight more excellent face creams. I hope you enjoy these; I loved them all!

Benefits of Using Face Moisturizers

Moisturizing is the most important part of skincare. Without it, the skin can look tired and dry and age faster.

The best face creams replenish moisture for the skin, as well as helping to lock it in so that our skin looks fresher and more supple for longer. Furthermore, as emulsions, they are amazing carriers for a whole range of different botanical and synthetic ingredients that can be fantastic for our skin.

Glycerites, tinctures, macerated oils, extracts of all kinds, emollients, silicones, esters, humectants, and so on can all be used here. Without a solubilizer, the emulsion is the only moisturizing product that can use water and oil-soluble ingredients together.

Furthermore, combining water and oil makes a DIY facial lotion relatively lightweight. It’s an excellent choice for anyone who doesn’t need or doesn’t like heavy skin care products. However, there is a lot of scope to customize your emulsions, meaning you can make them as heavy or as light as you want.

This means that no matter your skin type, you can always tweak your homemade face cream recipes to suit your skin type. This is not always true with DIY gel moisturizers and anhydrous formulas (facial balms & crème).

What’s In This Face Cream Recipe?

I’ve formulated this DIY face moisturizer to include a blend of gorgeous natural ingredients that will nourish all skin types. Let’s take a look.

Carrier Oils and Butters

I didn’t want to overcomplicate this formula, so I’ve gone for just the one carrier oil and cosmetic butter. For these, I’ve selected Argan Oil and Shea Butter.

You may have seen it as an ingredient listed on many different hair treatments, but Argan oil is also fantastic for the skin. It’s intensely hydrating, packed with nutrients, and high in antioxidants. So kiss goodbye to dry, dull, and damaged skin.

And I’ve paired this with shea butter, perhaps one of my favorite cosmetic ingredients. It’s even more nourishing and hydrating than the argan oil.

It also helps to soften the skin, leaving it feeling silky, soft, and supple. You’ll be surprised how much dry skin can bounce back with care and the right ingredients.

Humectants and Olive Squalane

Because no emulsion is complete without a humectant, I’ve decided to really treat myself. And so should you! Humectants are ingredients that draw moisture to a product. It helps keep them from going dry in between uses but also helps to keep the skin more supple.

That’s right, humectants will draw moisture from the atmosphere and impart it to the skin when applied. Therefore, this formulation will continue to hydrate your skin long after you have applied it.

Glycerine is perhaps the most universal humectant, and just about anyone should be able to get hold of it. But I’ve paired it with d-Panethol, which is fantastic at soothing skin, reducing inflammation, and delivering hydration to deeper levels of our skin.

However, my favorite humectant of all is hyaluronic acid. It’s such a strong humectant that the plumping effect can actually help to ease fine lines and wrinkles. It’s also one of those trendy ingredients, so your friends will be impressed that you’re using it in your own formulations!

Aromaceuticals

Now, we come to our essential oils. Not only do they smell amazing, but they also provide therapeutic benefits. I’ve selected rose geranium and ylang-ylang essential oils. They both have beautiful floral aromas that will pair well but about those benefits for our skin?

Rose geranium is actually great for balancing the skin’s oil production. While this might sound like it’ll make the skin drier, which is true if you have oily skin, it does the opposite on dry skin. It’s magic stuff, really!

The ylang-ylang is also deeply hydrating, penetrating deep to provide moisture at the very core of our skin. Furthermore, it synergizes with our rose geranium to help boost the production of natural oil in the skin.

Squalane

Squalane naturally exists in our skin and has many important functions in our body, too. It’s one of the skin’s natural lubricators, keeping skin feeling soft and moisturized on its own.

However, as we age, production diminishes, and by 30, we probably won’t be producing any in our skin anymore. The body actively redistributes away, leaving the skin lacking.

But we can replenish these levels by using a supplement in the form of olive squalane. It’s basically the same thing but derived from olives. And boy, does it sink in fast! It really is a magic oil.

Making Your Own Floral Infusions

To give your homemade face moisturizer that little extra, you can substitute all of the distilled water in the recipe with floral waters (also known as distillates, hydrolats, and hydrosols).

The recipe already calls for some rose hydrosol. Still, you can, if you wish, substitute all the distilled water for this ingredient.

Alternatively, you can make your own floral infusion by steeping dried flower petals or herbs in boiling water for 10 minutes, then straining through a fine strainer or piece of muslin.

For a more in-depth look at how to make your own herbal and floral infusions, please take a look at my post, which shows you exactly how to brew one up in your own home!

Using Preservatives In Homemade Face Creams

The homemade face cream below can be kept for a couple of days without preservatives and for 12 months with preservatives added. We don’t, however, recommend omitting it. Who wants to have to make their own face cream every week?

This is particularly important if you go down the ‘making your own floral infusion’ route. You must use a preservative, or it will only stay fresh for a limited time. Even with the preservative in it, you will still have to reduce the cream’s lifespan to 4 months (12 months with purchased flower water/distilled water).

That’s not to say that I wouldn’t recommend making floral infusions; I definitely would; make sure you use a preservative to get your four months.

Adding The Preservative

When it states to add the preservative, you will notice I give a choice of when to add it. When buying your preservative, the packaging should always give a guideline of when it can be added, along with a maximum temperature limit.

Most can now be added at the cooldown phase; this is my preferred method as it eliminates the chance of overheating and destroying it. But always check the recommended usage guide before buying it. Unless otherwise stated, these homemade face creams keep for about one week without preservatives and 12 months with preservatives added.