Make your own skincare

Vitamin E soft cream

What you need

Ingredients
80ml fresh, good quality cold pressed safflower oil
60ml distilled water
1 tablespoon beeswax pellets or grated beeswax
10 vitamin E capsules of the highest potency you can find.
Equipment
2 heat resistant bowls with lid
1 large pot or pan
1 hand whisk or wooden spoon
1 teaspoon or dropper
1 pair of scissors
measuring cups and spoons
heat resistant jar to contain the cream
ice cube trays

Before you start
Sterilise the ice cube trays, jar and lid, measuring cups and spoons, bowls, lids, dropper, whisk and spoons, scissors with boiling water and air dry them completely.

What to do

Put the safflower oil and beeswax in the bowl and cover it.
Put the distilled water into another bowl and cover that too.
Put the 2 bowls into a pot of water.
Put the pot over heat and let the water in the pot boil until the beeswax has melted.
Remove from heat.
Take both bowls out of the pot.
Cut the vitamin E capsules and pour the contents into the mixture

Using a teaspoon or dropper add the distilled water to the oil/beeswax mixture, 1 drop at a time, mixing with a whisk or wooden spoon all the time.
Once all the distilled water has been added to the mixture, stop mixing.
Leave to settle for 5 minutes. If any distilled water was not incorporated into the cream, it would sink below the cream. Keep that to freeze with each cream cube later
Transfer the cream+distilled water into the ice cube trays, 1 teaspoon per cube.
Put 1 teaspoon of the cream into the jar for use within the day.
Put the ice cube tray in the freezer until the cream is frozen.
Transfer the frozen cream cubes into a sterile airtight freezer safe box.
To use: Take out a cream cube each night and put in a sterile jar.
Keep in the refrigerator to thaw overnight for use the next day.
Use within 24 hours once taken out of the freezer.
(This is necessary as the cream contains no preservatives.)