Make Your Own Sunscreen at Home!

I was playing with an idea of making a sunscreen at home for a while because I’m very picky when it comes to them: they first need to be mineral without nanoparticles and can’t have any perfumes and/or nasty chemicals in them — I even wrote a post a while ago about it. And when I found this amazing recipe I decided to finally give it a go. I recommend reading the whole article — it’s super informative.

I made this sunscreen more than a month ago already but I really wanted to give it a good test drive first before sharing the recipe. I must say I absolutely love it. It smells nice and spreads really well. And most importantly — it really, really works!

There are a few differences compared to store-bought sunscreen you should know about though:
– you need to apply it generously (!) and often (about every hour)
– it will make your skin look white at first but after rubbing it for a while it is going to dissolve and lose the white appearance
– this cream doesn’t contain toxic ingredients that make it waterproof and although it contains beeswax that helps it stay on in the water, it still washes off so you need to reapply it generously as soon as you come out of water!

This cream is about SPF 20 or higher.

The ingredients you’ll need to make about 235 ml suncreen:
-90g coconut oil
-65g carrier oil (I used a mix of jojoba, olive and hemp oil)
-28.5 beeswax
-27.5 Mango Butter (the original recipe says shea butter but I used mango)
-40g Non-nano and Uncoated (!) Zinc Oxide
-½ tsp Vitamin E

The procedure is very easy:
Place all the ingredients, except for the zinc oxide in a glass bowl and melt them slowly by placing the bowl over a pot of simmering water. After everything is completely melted, remove the bowl and be careful not to get any water in to the mixture.
Now very slowly add the zinc oxide and whisk like you never whisked before. And then some more! For about 5 minutes.
Now pour the cream into container of your choice and leave it to set up for at least an hour or so.

I used the reusable GoToob and GoTubb Containers from Humangear and I love them! The first ones are squeezable tubes made of soft silicone that is BPA free and even FDA food-safeand they don’t drip and are so easy to fill, use and clean (besides the flip cap all parts are dishwasher safe). They can also be easily labeled. Perfect for travel.

The GoTubb’s are just as safe (also made of food-safe and BPA-free materials) and can be opened with only one hand. These are not water-proof though, so I use them only at home.

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