Natural Shaving Cream - Homemade Shaving Cream
Here is a great little article I found about natural shaving cream and how to make
your own homemade shaving cream. This recipe should work really great for cartridge
razors and old-style safety razors. Hope you find the information useful.
When I first decided to try making shaving cream, I used this recipe, mainly
because it was simple and used ingredients I already had. It's basically just shea butter and oil, with options
for different essential oil fragrance blends.
However, the stuff turned out more like shaving grease than shaving cream. It
was thick and goopy, wouldn't rinse off me or the razor, and left a coat of oil everywhere.
So I decided to try adding some liquid castile soap and see what happened.
Here's the final recipe:
2 TBSP shea butter
3 TBSP almond oil (you can use other cosmetic oil of your choice)
2 TBSP liquid castile soap (I used Dr. Bronner's)
Essential oils for fragrance (I didn't have and didn't want to buy any for this,
so mine is unscented, but you can use any of your choice. The original recipe has lots of good
suggestions).
Melt the shea butter in a glass bowl placed into a pan filled shallowly with
water. Remove from heat. Add almond oil, liquid castile soap, and essential oils. Stir and let cool.
It turns into a kind of liquidy cream with tiny white suspensions which I
think must be the shea butter. They kind of melt after spreading it on your skin.
Because it's fairly fluid you'll want to put it into a tube or a bottle with a
narrow opening. It works very well and leaves your skin feeling really moisturized. It doesn't foam like
commercial shaving cream but it does the job.
Natural Shaving Cream - Homemade Shaving Cream
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