Making my own moisturizer

Today I made some moisturizer. It's mostly based on the recipe for cold cream from the 1779 book Toilet de Flora. This is not the first time I try old recipes and it certainly won't be the last. The measurements has been reworked from the original Drachms to grams. 

This isn't really a experiment since i have done it before. but that time I Had accidentally miss read it and had 1 ounce of water instead of 1,5. It still worked but the result was a bit oily so I'm hoping it works better this time. But also I'm not too worried about getting things a little wrong.

Ingredients

56g Sunflower seed oil

2g   Coconut oil

2g   Jojoba oil

A few drops Tea Tree oil

4g   Beeswax pellets

42g Rosewater or Water

Sodium benzoate

Tools

Jars (enough for 100 ml)

Scales

Pipette

Stone mortar and wood pestle

Bowl preferably metal

Double boiler (metal bowl and pot)

What to do

Measure out the beeswax, coconut, jojoba and sunflower seed oils in the boil and melt it over a pot of water. Stir until the beeswax is all incorporated. The sunflower seed oil can be subbed out for other oils like almond or olive but I happened to have sunflower so that's what I used.

While the oils are melting measure out the Rosewater (or ordinary water) in a glass or bowl. 

Pour the oils in the mortar and stir slowly until the mixture grows thick and opaque. Then comes the slow bit, use the pipette to drop in the rosewater little by little. Stirring it in until the drops are no longer visible before dropping in more. Make sure to have something to watch or listen to during this because it takes about an hour and requires some patience. 

I took a pause to prepare the jars, boiling them, drying them off and writing labels for them. Of course once I'd written and taped them on did I remember that I have a label making machine that I could have used. But by then it was too late and I wasn't going to redo it all just to have them look neater. 

It wouldn't be me if I didn't try a little experiment. Last time I did this I used sodium benzoate to keep it from growing mold and that worked fine. But I have read that Tea tree oil have antifungal and antibacterial properties and wanted to try that instead (Link to the article).  So I labeled half the jars Tea tree and poured in a few (1-3) drops and labeled the rest for sodium benzoate and put 0.1ml of that in them. 

Then all that was left was just to divide the cream in the jars and stir so the tea tree oil or sodium benzoate don't just sit on the bottom. 

Results

All in all it took about an hour and half and I now have five jars or 100 ml of moisturizer. Hopefully the tea tree oil will work but in any case I plan to keep them in the fridge just to be one the safe side.

It smells rather pleasantly of honey and rose. It also feels rather smooth and less oily than last time. So I call that a success.

Update 1 it's working fine however Tea tree oil has a fairly strong scent and it completely drowns out the much milder honey and rose. I don't mind it but it is a particular smell and not one that's for everyone.

Update 2 After three months it hasn't started growing any mold so apparently the tea tree oil is working.