Witch’s Brew

Organic skin care seems to be getting more and more popular and available. However I’ve noticed the main ingredients being water, some sort of polyunsaturated oil and essential oils. They are organic and smell lovely but I found they didn’t really do much for me.
After have read Sally Fallon’s book ‘nourishing traditions’ and discovering that our skin cells and small intestine cells are extremely similar, I thought it necessary to have a cream which can be easily absorbed, or predigested, with nourishing fats and vitamins which the skin needs.
I’d recently discovered Goji Berries, which are the highest rated food for cleaning up free radicals (main cause of premature ageing) and full of vitamins and minerals. I decided to ferment them into a syrup and use them with raw whey as the water base of my creams.
I then use unrefined and organic saturated fats such as shea butter and cocoa butter to the mix. Cod Liver oil is also added for its natural vitamin A and D. The creams are unscented as it smells divine on its own. This is my goji berry body butter.

My anti ageing cream is very similar, but I’ve added a bunch of anti-ageing supplements as well. There is bee pollen - full of enzymes and chock full of vitamins, amino acids, coenzyme Q10 - great for connective tissue and anti-oxidant, High Potent Vitamin E - with tocotrienols - 50X more powerful than alpha-tocepherol for free radical scavenging. Aloe vera gel, fermented raw honey, Suma powder - a cellular regenerator, tightens connective tissue, a cure all from the amazon. I wanted this cream to be as nutrition dense and packed as possible.

I blend my creams and then leave them to sit for a few days. Throughout the winter I didn’t need to add a separate preservative as the cool weather kept the creams in a perfect condition.
However living in a sub tropical area of Australia, with the warmer weather coming, my creams kept fermenting, and fermenting, and fermenting! I had to in the end add a preservative in order to keep the creams from exploding out of their jars. The preservative I use is phenoxyethanol. A synthetic, but safe product, (trust me I checked zealously) where you only need 0.75% for efficiancy. If anyone knows different, please let me know.