原文: Homemade Organic Facial & Body Cream [Tree Hugging Family]

Some recipes for homemade creams and lotions are really complicated. This one below has a lot of steps, but is relatively easy in comparison to most.

Any herb face and body cream:

Pick a herb. You can use most any herb, but I suggest choosing one that’s good for your particular skin type. You can use elderflower, calendula, linden blossom, and more. If you’d like to make a cream for children I suggest comfrey or chamomile, which are gentle.

Gather supplies:

• 4oz fresh organic herb of your choice (or 2oz dried) - fresh is best
• 150 ml almond oil, or if olive oil is too rich for your tastes, try almond or apricot oil - just be sure it’s a nice quality oil
• Two tablespoons beeswax
• Two tablespoons organic cocoa butter
• Two teaspoons honey - if you can aim for a high quality raw honey you can use processed honey, but your cream will be a little less thick
• One teaspoon borax

To make:

1. Place herbs in glass or pottery bowl and pour 1/3 pint boiling water over them. Steep for 4 hours. If the water looks too low, you can add a bit more.
2. Into a small double boiler (that’s already boiling) add: oil and beeswax - slowly melt beeswax.
3. Add cocoa butter and melt.

In another pot that’s being warmed but not boiled:

1. Add 1/3 pint of your herbal infusion - liquid only
2. Add borax, and stir until dissolved.
3. Add honey, and stir until dissolved.

Remove both bots from heat. Mix contents of both pots together - it works best if you add the infusion mixture to the oil mixture slowly. Beat mixture until creamy - as soon as it starts to cool it’ll thicken and be harder to beat so start right away.

Store in little containers. Sometimes I’ve added tea tree or other essential oils to this mix as well. If you add oils do it during the last stage - the mixing part. Remember to check and see which mixtures of herbs and oils will work for your skin. This cream DOES NOT need to be kept in the fridge. Most lotions do, so this is a huge plus.

If you want to give this as a gift, you can pick up a thrift store, antique looking lotion pot - just be sure to include ingredients on a little card for the recipient, you don’t want to risk them being allergic to a herb or oil.

译文: 自制有机面霜体霜

      有些自制乳霜和乳液的配方十分复杂。以下这一款有许多步骤，但和大多数配方比起来属于比较简单的。

用草药来做面霜和体霜：

      找出一种草药。大多数草药都可以用，但是我建议挑选一种适合你特别肤质的。你可以用接骨木花、金盏草、菩提等等。如果你想给孩子们制一款面霜，我建议你用康复力花或者样柑橘，它们比较温和。

• 4盎司你所选的新鲜有机植物（或2盎司风干的）-新鲜的最好
• 150毫升杏仁油，如果橄榄油对你来说太浓的话，尝试杏仁油或杏子油-只需确定是质量上乘的油
• 2汤匙蜂蜡
• 2汤匙有机可可黄油
• 2汤匙蜂蜜- 如果你计划用高品质的原蜜的话你能用加工过的蜂蜜，但是你的乳霜可能会不够稠
• 1汤匙硼砂

做法：

      把草药放在玻璃或者陶瓷的容器里，在上面加1/3品脱的沸水。浸泡4小时。如果水看起来太少的话，你可以多加一点。在小双层蒸锅里（已经沸腾的）加：油和蜂蜡—缓慢融化的蜂蜡。加可可黄油让它融化。

      在另一个加热但未沸腾的容器里：

      加1/3品脱的草药混合物—只能是液体的
      加硼酸，搅拌直至溶解
      加蜂蜜，搅拌直至溶解

      停止加热。把两个容器里的东西混合在一起—如果你把草药混合液慢慢加到油里去效果最好。敲打混合物直到混合物呈乳霜状—一开始冷却它就会变厚，变得不容易敲打。

      放在小容器里。有时我会加茶树油或者其它精华油到乳霜中。如果你往里加油的话一定要在最后这个步骤加，即混合。记得检查植物和油的混合物是否对你的皮肤起作用。这款乳霜不必存放在冰箱里。但是大多数乳液要存放在冰箱里，所以这是一个附加的部分。

      如果你想把它作为一份礼物送给别人的话，你可以到一家便宜小店，买一个古董样的存放乳液的罐子—只要保证在一张小卡片上写下配方，如果你不想让接受者们冒着对某种植物或者油过敏的话。