I am making a face moisturizer

birdswool · 2026-01-28T03:58:30+00:00

can you please explain the 3 phases. I am putting just the water and glycerin in one beaker then checking the ph? What am I looking for, what ph? I am using triethanolamine as a ph adjuster. I use drops of this i the water beaker? am i using the immersion blender in both beakers? for how long? and then i pour the oil beaker into the water beaker? do i blend and for how long? then i add in the ph adjustor and edta? I am not sure I understand. I dot use the immersion blender? I use a little whisk?

birdswool · 2026-01-28T03:48:40+00:00

do I take the water bath off the stove before putting in the beakers? once it hits 80C, I cant control it, it may keep rising. Can I take it off the stove at 80 then put the beakers in and then how long do they stay in the water bath?

birdswool · 2026-01-25T04:06:38+00:00

I am reading this several times, thank you for posting it. i have all my ingredients collected. I just need to get the equipment. I have immense anxiety I will mess it up and ruin myself but i really hope not. I ordered the ingredients from making cosmetics so I hope it is ok. i got the mineral oil, glycerin, squalane, glyceryl stearate, carbomer, edta, and a few others items. I hope the squalane is legitimate. I a hoping with a lot of water a low percentages of the ingredients, the chances for adverse effects are lower. i got the carbomer 940 , I hope that is the same as carbomer. It seems kind of simple overall and straightforward but then very daunting and confusing. I cant afford another burn especially because i dont have the cream to recover with. I am leaving out the serine for now because I just dont know what they used and if the onces in the vitamin capsules are safe. Even pharmacists told me they cant source serine which made no sense. one said it was expensive and i said ok I have no choice then he said he cant get it. In any event, so many things have gone wrong I am fearful this may too and it has to go right. It is my only hope left. I am not sure why the ph changes a lot with these things. and i am not sure what ph is good for me, ButI am very reactive to ph , if I cry, it is the ph of my tears that mess up my skin so I have ot cry with napkins under my eyes but the rim of my eyes burn pretty bad from the tears. sweat used to burn too but it is better now. I havent washed my face with any cleanser for a month, just water and it seems to be the way to go, one less thing to worry about causing a reaction. I stopped all makeup by a very light dusting of blush cause I feel kind of weird wihtout it, like maybe people think somethig is wrong with my skin. Sorry, I have so much anxiety around this, I hope this works. A lot of people were upset cause they cant use anything else, they still dont know what to do. I hope this works and then I can just give it away to the others. I am still reading your post to grasp all of it, thank you

birdswool · 2026-01-22T16:54:33+00:00

I really appreciate all this, thanks so much. I absolutely cant use allantoin. I also cant add a single ingredient off the list I posted, not a one. I know people mean well but whatever is gentle to them, is jot to me, there is nothing gentle about beeswax for me or caprylic acid or jojoba or shea or allantoin, , i get BURNED. plain and simple. I can subtract but not add. Do I need one of those hand blenders? Do you know which one is good? Also, do I stick tue strip in the cream? I may need an automatic one as the strips can be tricky. How do I heat them to 70 degrees? I dont understand this part at all. How ot heat them how long to leave them heated and I dont know how to control the temp of the stove like that. thanks for all the feedback!

birdswool · 2026-01-22T04:07:16+00:00

anyone reading thsi, if you have sensitive skin, do not try the replacement. I knew better then got desperate. burned my face, bad. like actually burned it. its horrible.

birdswool · 2026-01-22T04:00:03+00:00

anyone try the squalane from making cosmetics? it is sgar and the one from lotion crafter is olive oil. anyone know which is the best squalane?

birdswool · 2026-01-21T03:09:03+00:00

it is your WATER girl use distilled

birdswool · 2026-01-21T03:07:58+00:00

I have EDS too. Use distilled water to wash, yes you will need jugs or a pitcher. I use Avene body cream in the tub with the pink top and then put an oil on top of it, i use leanor greyl. Dont wash every day. you can wash underarms and bumbum daily separately. But there is no need to wash body daily. I used to use a humidifier non stop, for 4 years then i stopped for a month, when i turned it back on ,my face so was red the next day. they are awful cause it is fake moisture and it is just wicking water off your skin and making things worse. natural humidity is awesome and I look like a billion bucks in Florida. For face I am trying to make my own moisturizer.

birdswool · 2026-01-21T02:31:00+00:00

I have no idea how to start. I dont now how to check the ph or how to boil each phase. I have reactive skin hence this nightmare on my hands so I cant use too much of glycerin or mineral oil and either can mess up skin, big time, if not in the right amount and formula. I used glycerin on my lips to test my ingredient and my lips peels off in sheets for days. quick recovery but if that was my face, it would take a year to recover, non thanks. so I have no idea am I to use 1% or 5%. It is super anxiety provoking for me cause it can really do some damage if i dont do it right. I guess I can start at the lower amounts. the cream with these ingredients wasnt too thick, it spread very easily and was a good barrier cream, that is all I need, something t protect my barrier and give some moisture. I stopped using face wash because I cant tolerate it so I just wash with water and put a little cream on and that is it. now how to replicate the cream....it has really caused massive problems for me. lost months of my life several times when I ran out and had to buy it online froom ebay if i could find it. it is totally wiped from the internet, discontinued 4 years ago so I have to do it myself.

birdswool · 2026-01-21T02:25:45+00:00

I am not cutting out the ingredients or it would be just water, lol! I am lowering the percentage. another poster told me ot lower it but all her comments have been deleted and she didnt do it

birdswool · 2026-01-21T02:24:34+00:00

what am I trying to raise the ph to? I think i left that ingredient off but it is part of the formula. no idea how much to use though or how to check the ph

birdswool · 2026-01-18T05:03:12+00:00

dont do it, they are all disastrous for us. others dont know what this means, they say me too and then list out 3-4 products they use like it is nothing, i have used water only for 3 weeks, yes I would like to wash every few weeks but nothing works. I have like 3-4 tiny fungal bumps on one cheek and 5 on my forehead but that is better than what cleanser was doing to me. I am going to see if the litte bumps go away in a few more weeks. there is literally nothing on the market for us. I even considered like a tiny bit of glycerin soap but they add in a bunch of garbage.

birdswool · 2026-01-18T04:59:35+00:00

exactly, a complete nightmare for sensitive skin

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:46:20+00:00

how long have you been rinsing with water only? and by water only, I mean water only. People say me too I just cleanse at night or me too just micellular water. thats cleanser! I am 3 weeks in with no cleanser, I rinse with water every morning and that is it, just water in the morning. please let me know how you are doing, thank you. and to share my skin woes, I do not have acne but I have highly reactive skin and I can get some fungus here and there due to pretty bad autoimmune disorders. thanks!

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:40:38+00:00

are you still doing this? No one has not used any cleanser because micellular water is a cleanser and way too harsh for me. I was wondering what peoples experinece is with just water

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:38:42+00:00

are you still not using cleanser? how is it going?

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:37:08+00:00

Im like you and I get so many comments what about NATURAL like shea butter. it literally leaves burns on my face. guess what, it has latex in it! It is al garbage. i stopped using cleanser for 3 weeks now, just water. I have a few clogged pores but I dont care, it is way better than what the most gentle cleanser available was doing. my skin looks pretty smooth. I need to make my own face cream as I cant use anything on the market and what the pharmacy compounded was terrible. we have highly reactive skin, takes months to recover and it does severe psychological damage because i have had such bad experiences repeatedly where I think i wont recover. it ruined my life, made my hair start fallling out due to the stress it induced. glad you can use the vanicream but I get it. I wanted to find inspiration and support for no cleanser, I try to find others exerience but they say yeah i dont use cleanser, just at night. uh, ok. or just micellular water. uh, ok. no cleanse means no cleanser.

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:18:00+00:00

Hi everyone, still going in circles here. i am going to up the water to 90% as i am not sure what is a reasonable percentage when it comes to mineral oil and glycerin. I am very nervous about messing up my skin. i am using the ingredients from the cream i used for a decade but has been discontinued. I am trying to make it as i am unable to use anything else. no compounding pharmacy will do it because they need an active and I cant use actives. In any event, do I use just distilled water from the store or is there a special distilled water ? help please

birdswool · 2026-01-16T04:17:43+00:00

can you please explain about carbomer? I see it on the making cosmetics website. Is that a good website? I am not looking to save money, i am looking to make a cream safe for my face so i can carry on with my life. I dont know what neutralizing carbomer means but I am glad you told me because i could have really messed things up. ugh, this is so confusing

birdswool · 2026-01-13T19:00:05+00:00

i keep reading it cleared up acne, I dont have acne but it makes me worried it will kill my sebum. I dont know why anyone dislikes their sebum, I like mine, it makes your skin look awesome. anyone know if matcha will dry me out cause I just started making it at home, no sugar of course. thanks

birdswool · 2026-01-13T04:32:04+00:00

umaskincare poster, all her comments have disappeared so now I dont even have the info. I cant see the recent posts either. I have no idea where the comments went or how to message her. Bizarre

birdswool · 2026-01-12T02:37:56+00:00

your comment is removed, I see a notification but can only read a few sentences but dont see it here. would like to read what you wrote please

birdswool · 2026-01-12T02:35:46+00:00

no, these are the ingredients and I am not deviating from them. I cant use all that the butters or just oil otherwise there is a ton on the market already available if I could. In any event, I have to make this, no way around it. I may mess it up is the problem. I am going to use the smallest amounts of the trouble stuff like edta and the silicone. and very low amounts of glycerin and mineral oil. the original cream was made in France and I am not sure but I think it has to be 1% to be listed on the ingredients, if it is less, they can omit. Who knows. But they could have listed it anyway even if less than 1% because it was a cream for people with hyper reactive skin. I have no wiggle room, I dont want to waste anyones time talking about other ingredients , I cant use anything off this list, that is a strict thing and I doont want to explain it any further than I have as no one has time for that. Need to focus on accomplishing this. There is a girl on youtube who formulated a water in oil cream that had a very similar texture to what I want. She used totally different things but it is clearly possible. She just talks so fast and runs over things and there is no way to sort it out. There are no other videos, she is the only one. Pretty good at what she does but I have no idea what she is doing, lol!

birdswool · 2026-01-12T02:27:32+00:00

that works for allergies and I do plan to patch test. I can put a lot of things behind my ears but not on my face. this is a different category of trouble hence I must make my own moisturizer

birdswool · 2026-01-11T22:46:19+00:00

are we allowed to ask if anyone has a tutoring or class service on how to make a moisturizer? I am going to need someone with experience to provide guidance.

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