Homemade Rose Beauty Balm

I love making my own products and once again I’ve made something I love. What inspired me is a beauty balm I paid up for because I knew I had to make my own. I’m glad I did and now I can pass on this awesome recipe to you.

Many of my recipes call for oils that I infuse myself using plant material from my garden. This recipe also calls for my rose geranium infused oil.

I have never found anywhere that you can buy this oil and if you don’t have a plant, you can replace it with an oil of your choice like maybe an organic extra virgin olive oil or camellia seed oil? Just do the research and whatever you choose, do a patch test on your skin to make sure you’re not sensitive to it.

I love this oil. I use this mostly on my face and neck but it can be used on arms and legs, elbows and chest area. So I guess this could be an all over beauty balm.

Rose Beauty Balm Recipe

Making Your Beauty Balm

If you’ve read any of our other articles on making your own products, then you know I like using a double boiler method while making my salves, balms and soaps for melting and combining ingredients.

I use a large pot filled about half way with water, put that on a medium high burner, then I use a smaller bowl that easily fits within the large bowl, that’s also safe to sit in hot water, and add my ingredients in the small bowl to slowly melt and combine all ingredients together.

If you have a double boiler that’s great, if you don’t and make it how I do, make sure the smaller bowl is tall (like a large Pyrex bowl or the like) so none of the steam (water) can get in the mixture.

I also start with the least amount of beeswax. When the beeswax has melted in the other oils, I will take a little of the mixture and place it on wax paper and let it cool. See what the consistency is like. From there if I want, I’ll add the rest of the beeswax.

I did not want a firm balm for this recipe but the choice is yours.

  1. Add water to the large pot and turn the burner to a medium heat.
  2. Add the first six ingredients (the oils and beeswax) to the smaller bowl and place it in the larger pot with water.
  3. As the ingredients heat, stir occasionally until the beeswax is melted.
  4. When the beeswax has melted completely, remove from heat. The bowl will be hot so use pot holders.
  5. Add in the essential oils and stir to thoroughly mix together.
  6. Pour into glass containers then let sit at room temperature for several hours until hardened.

Tip: I save some of my glass jars that are in the 1 to 2-ounce size range. I wash them really good so I can reuse them for some of the products I make.

Using Your Rose Beauty Balm

After applying my toner and letting that dry, I put on the rose geranium oil (I may not use it everyday as I like to switch up my moisturizing routine occasionally). I let is sit and absorb on my skin about 5 or 10 minutes. Your skin will be shinny looking then I smooth my hands over my skin again as it helps take away some of the shine. Then I apply my other moisturizers then makeup.

Enjoy your own homemade rose beauty balm!

Below is a little about the ingredients used:

Castor Oil

Beneficial to skin with high ricinoleic acid ratio, anti-bacterial, antioxidants, beneficial fatty acids, moisturizing, and other properties.

Rosehip Seed Oil

Contains essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamin C, hydrating, moisturizing and other beneficial properties.

Sea Buckthorn Oil

Nourishing, soothing, healing, rejuvenating, hydrating, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins and more.

Calendula Oil

Moisturizing, soothing, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hydrating, antimicrobial and more beneficial properties.

Homemade Recipe Tips

  • Make sure your work space and hands are clean.
  • Make sure the containers you are using are clean.
  • Make sure salves and creams have cooled enough before pouring in glass containers so they don't break.
  • Keep the batch size small so the homemade products you use are fresh unless you're making gifts.

Infusing Herbal Oils

  • Before you decide on which plant material you are going to use, I recommend you do your research on the plants or herbs you want to use.
  • The infused oils I make are for topical use, I recommend you do a little test on your skin prior to using your infusion, just to make sure you don’t have a reaction, chances are pretty low that it would bother you, but you just never know especially if you have sensitive skin.
  • All my infused oils have turned out great for the salves I’ve made or using them as they are or mixing with other oils and essential oils.