Beet extract

When making beet juice, don't throw away the pulp. It is a great raw material to make your own beet extract.

Just pour the beet pulp into a glass container (I use my son's baby food jar). Then pour grain alcohol (e.g. vodka, gin, sake etc) just to cover it. If you are allergic to alcohol, you can use glycerin instead. Wait for 2 weeks, you get your own beet extract.

I like to use it as cheek & lip tin. Just dip the cotton swap into the extract and apply it to apple of cheek. Color develop eventually.

Zinc Oxide Diaper Rash Cream

I like to make my own natural zinc oxide diaper rash cream. It is great for my baby bottom. When I need to go for a walk with my son, I put some diaper rash cream in the palm of my hand, add some aloe juice, rub on my hand until mixed. Then apply to my son,s face & body assun screen.

Ingredient:
Olive Oil......75ml
Zinc Oxide powder......10ml
Bee Wax......10ml
Lavender essential oil......1-2drops
Chamomile essential oil......1-2 drops
Vitamin E oil......5ml

1. Pour olive oil & bee wax in a small pot. Heat until bee wax melt. Stir
   
2. Add zinc oxide into oil mixture.
   
3. Stir in vitamin E oil & essential oil.
   

Papaya Cleansing Cream

This recipe also works as a mild exfoliate. For a no-heating recipe, you can use "Gel Maker" (from makingcosmetics.com) to substitute orange wax. Just mix everything together until thicken.
Papaya Cleansing Cream
Ingredient:
Grapeseed/sunflower seed/jojoba oil......10ml
Papin (Papaya extract)......0.5g
Glycerin......10ml
Aloe Juice......45ml
Lavender/Orange blossom/ Distille Water......30ml
Orange Wax......5ml
Preservetive......0.5ml

1. Mix papin, glycerin, aloe juice, lavender water and preservetive.
2. Put orange wax in oil. Heat until wax dissolve. Turn off heat.
   
3. Slowly add papin mixture into oil. Stir until emulsified. (you may need to wait until mixture cooled down. Stir occationally)

How to use:

1. Put about a size of a quater of cleansing cream in the palm of your hand.
2. Gently massage over your face. For the no-heating method, you may find you can rub some dead skin off.
3. Wash off with a damp cloth.
   

Cleansing oil

This is a very easy recipe, but require you to buy polysobate 20, which is hard to find in local DIY store. I recommended you can go to makingcosmetics.com or New Directions Aromatics. They have decent price & quality.

Cleansing Oil
Ingredients:
Grapeseed or sunflower seed Oil......100ml(Substitute with 50ml of jojoba oil for better result)
Polysobate 20......10ml
Vitamin E......1 capsule
Sweet orange essential oil......4 drops (optional)

Pour all ingredient into a clean bottle & shake each time before use.

How to use:

1. Make sure your face is dry. Pour about a size of a quater of cleansing oil in the palm of your hand
2. Use finger tips to massage your face until all dirt is dissolved.
   
3. Add water to emulsify
4. Wash with a damp cloth.
5. If you still feel your face is not clean, repeat, but leave the oil on your skin for 1-2min. Then add water to emulsify & wash with a damp cloth.
   

You may be surprise that I recommend using cleansing oil. The reason behind is to use oil to dissolve oil. Do you know the main ingredient of soap is oil? Of course I do not recommend using soap to clean your face because it will be too drying (due to alkaline base of the soap), but it is a good example of using oil to dissolve oil. After you clean your face, you can feel your skin is not drying, yet it can breath.

You want to protect your baby from chemicals, right?

Since I was pregnant, I change my cosmetic line because I don't want my baby to take any chemicals. I was carefully reading the ingredient on every baby lotions, diaper rash cream, baby powder...etc before I purchase them. Still, I found they are not natural enough. So I decided to make my own.

Making your own baby care product has several benefits. The most important is they are all natural & cause less irritation. The other one is: It saves money.