It is easy to find workshops to learn how to make your own products, or devices that encourage you to go home-made, including a recipe booklet, and possibly an ingredient kit to help you get started. Home-made is the new trend, it is cheap and playful… But is it all positive? Not necessarily, if you take into account what it actually involves, that is, what you do not always think about when you start mixing your first emulsion. Here is an explanation.
Why start making your own cosmetic products when you can find plenty of them everywhere on the market, and for all types of skin, tastes and uses? Perfumeries, pharmacies, supermarkets, organic stores, the Internet, really, the choice is yours!
The thing is, motivation is enhanced by other factors. The rejection of polluting chemistry, the fear of controversial substances suspected of being toxic, the difficulty to understand the mysterious ingredient lists on packaging, the desire for “truly” natural products, the need to know “what you put on your skin”, the will to save money: they all add to the pleasure of saying “I made it!”
The DIY cosmetics trend thus rides on the wave of fear and values, and what many thought was only a flash in the pan actually seems to be settling down for quite a while.
In the kitchen
So, you have made up your mind? You are actually ready to set off on making your first cream? You have found a tempting recipe on the Internet, or in a booklet offered by an ingredient or electrical appliance seller. Now it is time to go for it.
Choosing the ingredients
The first question to ask is: where can …
