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Make your own sun cream The best recipes and tips
Produce natural sunscreen yourself
Sunscreen can be made from many natural oils and fats, since they have their own light factor. These include chi butter, cocoa butter or coconut oil. Coconut oil also helps against ticks and cocoa butter against mosquitoes. Sesame oil and raspberry oil have a particularly high sun protection factor. Carrot seed oil also provides the body with vitamins A and E, wheat germ oil also contains a lot of vitamin E..
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- Produce natural sunscreen yourself
- Healthy skin through vitamins
- Which ingredients promise a high sun protection?
- Essential oils
- When it should go fast
- Make carrot oil yourself
- Aloe vera
- Preparation Aloe vera sun angel
Healthy skin through vitamins
Vitamin A, C and E are important for the skin and strengthen it against the effects of the sun. Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin and the body does not store it. Humans, unlike many animals, are unable to synthesize vitamin C, so we need to absorb the substance with food. It influences collagen synthesis and is therefore indispensable for the connective tissue. This, in turn, keeps the body together - the skin, bones, teeth, blood vessels, etc.
Vitamin C protects the skin from the sun. A lot of it is contained in berry fruits, for example. (Image: J.Mühlbauer exclus./fotolia.com) Vitamin C is found in all citrus fruits, ie limes, limes, lemons, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit and grapefruit. Other fruits that contain much of the vitamin include pineapple, papaya, strawberries, currants, blueberries, pricelines, raspberries and watermelons.
Vitamin E ensures that the cells can work together and the connection between bone and muscles works. It also stops cellulite and smoothes connective tissue. It protects the moisture of the skin.
Vitamin E is found in good doses in green leafy vegetables, nuts, wheat and lentils, as well as in whole grains. Animal products rarely contain the substance, with the exception of the liver, heart and kidneys as well as milk and eggs. The substance balances certain hormones and helps against indigestion. The best sources of vitamin E are vegetable oils, especially olive oil, corn germ and soybean oil.
Vitamin A is responsible for vision, bone growth, development of teeth, the immune system, the reproduction of cells, the production of hormones, healthy skin and hair. It is found in nature in two forms - preformed vitamin A and provitamin A, also known as carotene. Sources are animals and plants.
The retinol form is found in animal products such as liver, eggs and milk, while beta-carotene is found in plants such as carrots, sweet potatoes, mangoes, spinach, pumpkins and apricots.
| Sunscreen for everyday life You need:
Put all ingredients together in a water bath and let them melt at low heat - stirring constantly. Afterwards, pour the mixture into suitable containers, e.g. old cream jars or used shower gel bottles and put them in the fridge. There the cream stays firm. If you bring the cream to the sun and apply, it will be more fluid, at room temperature, it remains creamy. |
Which ingredients promise a high sun protection?
In low sunshine, you can also rub in with pure coconut oil if you like the smell. It has a sun protection factor of 4, also chi butter and cocoa butter are moving in this area. Although Sesambutter only has a protection factor of 4, it blocks up to 30% of the UV rays.
Carrot oil promotes cell growth through carotene and thus strengthens smooth skin. The sun protection factor is ten times higher than the fats discussed earlier and is between 30 and 40 percent. Raspberry seed oil is exorbitantly expensive compared to coke oil. However, it has an SPF of 28-50 against UVB rays and 8 against UVA rays.
A few drops of lavender oil ensure that the homemade sunscreen smells good. (Image: Kathrin39 / fotolia.com) Essential oils
Essential oils provide a pleasant scent of cream. But beware: Do not use citrus oils. The sunscreen not only reduce, but even promote sunburn.
The best are eucalyptus, mint and lavender. You literally kill two birds with one stone: these essential oils deter ticks and are an effective home remedy for mosquitoes and brakes. Firstly, they protect themselves from the sun, secondly they smell good and thirdly they protect against insect bites. This addition is particularly suitable for outdoor trips.
| Recipe for sunscreen with a high protection factor of 30 Take:
First melt the beeswax, coconut and sesame oil in a water bath and carefully stir in the remaining ingredients with a whisk. Then pour the mass into a container and let it harden. The cream is liquid, spreadable or hard depending on the temperature and lasts for at least a year. |
If you do not want to use zinc oxide, you can also use raspberry seed oil. The finished cream then has a protection factor of about 20.
Recipe for sunscreen without zinc oxide
Melt beeswax and coconut oil in a water bath and stir in the remaining ingredients with a whisk. |
When it should go fast
If you need an effective cream quickly, just mix 5 tablespoons of coconut oil and 4 tablespoons of zinc oxide in a pot. You can apply this mixture immediately. If you store the cream cool, the zinc oxide does not settle. The sunscreen is about 20.
Effective sunscreen can be quickly made from coconut oil and zinc oxide. (Image: contrastwerkstatt / fotolia.com) Make carrot oil yourself
If you do not want to buy carrot seed oil, you can also make carrot oil yourself. Add 50 ml of sesame oil and a grated carrot to a jar, heat both in a water bath until the oil turns orange and the carrots are soft. Then sift the oil through a dishcloth and set it to cool.
Aloe vera
A light sun protection Aloe Vera offers. This cactus-like plant from drylands was probably originally from Arabia, but is now cultivated from the Canary Islands to India and Mexico.
The plant juice not only nourishes the skin, it is also a proven home remedy for sunburn and can be used against burn injuries. An active ingredient called barbaloin in the plant absorbs UV rays. When the juice is mixed with oil to a cream, we have a SPF of about 6.
Homemade creams from fresh aloe vera slime a little and need to be consumed quickly.
Preparation Aloe vera sun angel
1.) Cut an aloe vera leaf on the stem
2.) Drain the yellow liquid dripping from the interface.
3.) Then halve the length of the leaf
4.) Scrape the liquid-slimy gel with a knife from the half of the sheet
5.) You let it drain into a cup
Then you can apply the gel directly to the skin or mix with cocoa butter, coconut, jojoba or sesame oil. Apply the gel or mixture directly to the skin. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)