How to Make a Lavender Oil Moisturizer for Oily Skin

Create your own moisturizer at home.

Every skin type is different and presents a different set of challenges. Moisturizing skin with products that are tailored to your skin-type, whether oily, dry, or something in between, is essential for making your skin look and feel its best. To get just the right product for your skin, try creating your own moisturizer at home using an oil base. Contrary to what you might think, using an oil-based moisturizer on oily skin does not make oily skin worse. The level of oiliness on your skin is caused by your own sebum production, which is primarily controlled by genetics.

Things You'll Need

• Oil
• Bowls
• Spoon
• Shea butter
• Butter knife
• Beeswax
• Cocoa butter
• Glycerin
• Whisk
• Oatmeal
• Vitamin E
• Ascorbic acid

Instructions

Almond Oil Moisturizer

1. Pour 2 ounces of almond oil into a small bowl. Add 1 ounce of olive oil if you have combination oily skin. Stir together.

2. Soften 1/2 ounce of shea butter in the microwave. Take care not to melt the shea butter completely. It should be the consistency of dairy butter at room temperature.

3. Cut the shea butter into the oil mixture by cutting a small piece of shea butter off of the block with a butter knife and stirring it into the oil using a spoon until completely blended. Cut another small piece and stir it into the oil. Continue until all of the butter has been added.

4. 

   Lavender has a calming scent.

   Add lavender oil, drop by drop, until the oil mixture takes on a lavender scent. Stir the lavender oil in thoroughly.

Avocado Oil Moisturizer

1. Melt 1 teaspoon beeswax and 1 teaspoon cocoa butter in the microwave until liquid. Add 1/4 cup avocado oil. Stir until completely blended and allow the mixture to cool.

2. Combine 1/2 teaspoon glycerin, 1/4 cup water and 7 drops lavender oil in a medium bowl. Whisk together using a metal whisk until the mixture is completely blended.

3. Slowly drizzle the oil mixture into the water mixture, stirring constantly, until all of the oil has been added.

4. Add any extra ingredients, such as 1 tablespoon of crushed oatmeal for calming and exfoliating or 1 teaspoon of vitamin E oil to nourish skin, if desired.

5. Blend ingredients together completely. Add 1/4 teaspoon of ascorbic acid to the mixture if you add any ingredients that require preservation, such as oatmeal.

Tips & Warnings

• Make small batches of product, just a two or three week supply at a time, to keep it fresh. Store in an opaque, air-tight container, away from light.

• Make certain that all of your supplies are very clean before using them to avoid contaminating, and thus spoiling, the moisturizer.

References

• DERMAdoctor: Oily Skin