How to Make Violet Eye Cream

Violet eye cream is a skincare product you can make at home to reduce puffiness, the appearance of wrinkles and to brighten and regenerate the delicate skin around your eyes. Many products on the market may contain ingredients you may want to avoid because of skin sensitivity or allergy. However, you are in control of what goes into the product when you make homemade eye cream.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Fresh violet flowers and leaves
• Almond oil
• Plastic or other non porous mixing spoon
• Double boiler
• Horsetail (also called shavegrass)
• Small food grater or a chopping knife and cutting board
• Beeswax
• Bowl
• Sieve
• Vitamin E oil
• Evening primrose oil, optional as substitute for chamomile
• Blue chamomile oil, optional if an allergy is known
• Medicine dropper
• 1/4 oz. jars

1. Lay about cup of newly cut violet flowers and leaves on a towel to wilt overnight. A good starting point is two rounded handfuls of both flowers and leaves. You want an equal amount of each to prepare the eye cream.
2. Boil water in the bottom section of a double boiler. Add enough water to let it simmer for 5 hours. Place approximately 1 1/4 cups of almond oil in the top section of the double boiler.
3. Measure out an amount of horsetail that equals the amount of violet flowers you have, about 1/2 cup. Place horsetail and violet leaves and flowers into the almond oil and let the mixture steep for 5 hours.
4. Grate or chop your beeswax into small pieces until you have a golf ball-sized amount. Do this at any time while the oil and plant mixture steeps.
5. Strain the oil mixture into a clean bowl, being careful to remove all of the plant material from the almond oil. Wipe out any plant material from the double boiler
6. Pour the strained oil back into the double boiler and add the beeswax. Mix the beeswax into the oil until it's fully incorporated.
7. Remove the double boiler from heat and add ten drops Vitamin E and an equal amount of either blue chamomile or evening primrose oil. If you prefer, you could also use half chamomile and half evening primrose oil, but don't add too much liquid to the mixture. Stir until just mixed.
8. Pour the solution into small, clean jars or containers into which you can easily fit a fingertip, about the size of a small jar of lip balm. Let the solution cool before capping to help avoid the formation of condensation inside the jar.