Homemade Night Creams: More effective than commercial creams

Homemade Night Creams: More effective than commercial creams

Skin renewal process gets more active at nighttime. Night creams are specially designed to benefit the most at nighttime. You should apply night cream daily to set off the damage done by the makeup, sunrays and air pollution. People with dry and very dry skin are specially advised to use night creams to provide much required moisture. You can choose night cream according to your skin.

An effective night cream should have essential lipids, collagen and elastin, which will work on your skin while you sleep. There are vitamins and anti-aging components in night creams. The best way to apply night cream for maximum benefit, take a little night cream on your fingers and apply on the face. Massage it gently in upward circular motion. It is better to apply night cream when the skin is damp. Do not apply night cream on your upper eyelids. These creams are little bit thicker than ordinary moisturizer. Do not apply any makeup over night creams.

Night cream with Almond Oil: Take one cup almond oil, one medium sized avocado, 10 gm beeswax and 1 and ½ tsp sodium Benzoate. Squeeze out the juice of avocado by grating it and mix it with almond oil thoroughly. Melt beeswax in a double boiler and mix it to the mixture. Beat it till a smooth paste. Apply it on the face before bedtime and wash the face with lukewarm water in the morning.

Rosewater night creams: You will need 1/4 cup of rose water, ½ cup almond oil, 30 gm of white wax and ½ tsp of sodium benzoate. Put beeswax in the almond oil and heat it over the low flame to melt the wax. Put off the fire and cool the mixture. Now add rosewater and then sodium benzoate to it. Put it in refrigerator for a day before use. This is an effective recipe for dry skin.

Night Cream With Apple: Take ½ kg of vegetable fat, ½ kg of apple and one-cup rosewater, 1 tbsp of tincture of benzoin. Mash apples in blender and add vegetable fat to it. Keep the mixture on low flame to heat while stirring. Remove it from flame and add rose water and tincture to it. After cooling, store in refrigerator.

Put the apples through the blender and add the juice and pulp to vegetable fat. Keep the mixture on a low flame and stir till it is well mixed. Remove from the flame and add to it the tincture and rose water. Stir well and store in a refrigerator.

Conditioning Night Cream: To prepare this wonderful night cream, you will need 3 tbsp. Almond oil, 2 tbsp. Cocoa butter, 2 tbsp. hydrous lanolin, 2 tsp. Rose water and ½ tsp. Honey.

Take a glass bowl and pour almond oil, lanolin and cocoa butter. Now place this bowl in pan of boiling water. It will melt lanolin and butter. Stir the mixture well while heating. Take it off from fire and add rose water and honey. Blend it will until it is creamy.

Homemade Night Cream Recipe

This is a very good night cream which help you get rid of wrinkles on face and neck. For this to prepare, you will need one tablespoon each of wheat germ oil and apricot kernel oil. 8 tbsp of lecithin which is water-dispersible, 3 tbsp of distilled water, 2 tbsp of avocado oil, 2 tbsp of sunflower oil, 2 tbsp of walnut oil, one tbsp of arrowroot powder and few drops of perfume you like. Take a glass bowl and blend all the ingredients. Do not use granular lecithin. Store it in a jar.

Another Homemade night cream: Take 3 tbsp lanolin, one tbsp sunflower oil, one tablespoon almond oil and one tsp lavender oil. Take a double boiler and melt lanolin in it. Now add sunflower and almond oil and stir it to mix it well. Remove from fire and cool it. Then beat it till it becomes a paste and add lavender oil. Then transfer it in an airtight jar.

Ginger Night Cream: 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, two teaspoon each of sesame oil, apricot kernel oil, vitamin E oil and ½ cup cocoa butter. To prepare this night cream, squeeze juice of ginger by grating it and throw away the pulp. Now melt the cocoa butter in a double boiler and mix all the ingredients. Remove from fire and let it cool. Beat it well to make it a cream. After it gets cool, transfer the mixture in a jar and refrigerate it.