Galen Cold Cream Recipe | Organic Beauty Recipes (2024)

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The invention of this cold cream recipe is credited to Galen, a physician in the second century from Greece. This cold cream is thick and softens when it touches the skin. It is perfect for dry skin on elbow, feet, and knees and also perfect for natural ways of removing makeup and to avoid eczemain dry parts of your body.

Galen was one of the first to be known to make a link between the body and soul and how to treat sickness looking at the four humor(blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile). You can actually find some of his work translated from Greekin this book: Selected Work By Galen

This Galen Cold cream recipe is without borax. Borax is also known as sodium borate which helps binding water and oil. Beeswax is here an effective emulsifier that binds water and oil. The only trick is that you have to be careful with the ratio water vs oil. If you put too much water, your cream will separate.

How to make this Galen cold cream recipe is a very simple process that requires 3 ingredients:

Rosewater

Rosewater (also called rose hydrosol) is a bi-product of the rose essential oil distillation process. It helps to balance the skin sebum production and is used to enhance circulation.

Olive Oil or Almond Oil

I prefer to substitute Olive oil with almond oil because I like the scent better, plus it is less greasy than olive oil.

Almond oil has many benefits for the skin. It is naturally rich in Vitamin E, monounsaturated fatty acids, proteins, potassium, and zinc.

Beeswax

As you know, beeswax is the hard labor of the bees and beeswax which create a natural emulsion and binds the water and the oil together.

I’ve seen many forums claiming that you cannot create a cold cream recipe without using a chemical emulsifier like borax, sorbitol & stearic acid.

This is not true. You can create a creamwith simple ingredients as in this cold cream recipe below. If you use chemical emulsifiers, you will need to use preservatives like triclosan orCaprylyl Glycol. You can skip all that nonsense. The reasons those chemicals were created is to have long shelf life, 2 to 5 years. That allows commercial cosmetic companies to make more money, at the expense of our health.

Make small batches, use clean and sterilized utensilsas well as tools and surfaces. The shelf life of this cream is between 2 to 4 weeks.

Use clean hands when you handle the product and most of it use common sense! If you see mold or the cream is smelling off, throw it away!

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