Making homemade cosmetics is great.
In addition to better meeting our needs, we save a lot of money and we are proud of "I did it myself!".
The thing is that some of the ingredients in their composition require taking some precautions.
I am thinking in particular of the creation of soap for which soda is used, an ingredient that should not be handled lightly at the risk of chemical burns.
Here is a topo of the precautions for use accompanied by a small glossary of terms that I will use in my recipes in the future.
It is essential to properly sterilize all the accessories and containers that we use for our recipes. To do this, prepare a large pot with a lid of boiling water and immerse all the tools and containers in it for 5 minutes, keeping it boiling.
This is the basis, there is no point in sterilizing our equipment if it is to stick all the bacteria that we walk on our hands. So, we clean her mimines with applications, nails included and we remove her jewelry.
To avoid dangerous mixtures and to handle them correctly.
As I already said above, some of the ingredients are toxic, use the saucepan in which we put the soda to prepare the sauce for the Sunday meal with the family and it will end in tragedy of the kind
"She wanted to kill her mother-in-law with caustic soda".
This also applies to the beaters of our blender, the strainer, the funnel... Anything that has been in contact with chemical ingredients must be reserved for this use only.
Often they are found in organic stores, pharmacies or specialty stores or on the Web. For some, simply in a DIY store or even in a supermarket. For all that is containers, I encourage you to recycle the bottles and jars of creams that you already have at home. A good cleaning, sterilization and it's perfect. But if you want to buy some, you can go to organic or specialized stores or on Amazon where you will find all the ranges of bottles and containers useful in the manufacture of cosmetics.
So, do you want to start making homemade cosmetics? Perhaps you have additional questions to ask? Do not hesitate to participate in comment.
