With the heat, the high temperatures arrive and with them the desire to spend more time outside the house than inside. The problem is that the skin needs to be protected from the sun’s rays so that it does not burn or have more serious consequences on our health.. Want to save money on sunscreen? Do you have aloe vera on hand? How about learning how to make aloe vera sunscreen?
If you have this plant with you and can get all the ingredients you need, you can easily make your own sunscreen. More natural, cheaper, and best of all, made with ingredients you’ll know what they are, so there won’t be any surprises. What if we gave you the keys?
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Ingredients for making aloe vera sunscreen
Next, we are going to list the ingredients you will need to make the aloe vera protector. There are several, but you will see that they are very simple.
- Natural aloe vera gel. You need three tablespoons but if you have the plant, with one of its leaves split open and all the pulp removed, that should be enough.
- wheat germ oil. A tablespoon will suffice.
- Beeswax. The same, only one tablespoon.
- 10 grams of zinc oxide powder. It may be the hardest ingredient to find, but at herbalists you should find it.
- Distilled water (for example, that of the plates). It is used to dilute aloe. If you’re using the herb itself, you’ll need to spend a bit more time on it to really melt it down.
- coconut oil, olive or almond You will need a quarter liter. You can choose the one you like the most, although with the olive one the cream will be a little stickier. With coconut or almonds we will have a more homogeneous texture. If you have oily skin, we recommend them instead of olive.
- Grapefruit seed extract. You only need a few drops.
- Oil essence. Only optional and if you want the cream to smell good. If you don’t mind that it has no smell, better avoid it.
How to make aloe vera sunscreen: the steps
Now that you have the ingredients, and if you have them all, it’s time to get to work. You will see, you will start by putting a pot with the beeswax and the oil in a bain-marie. The goal is for it to warm up a bit and mix.
At the same time We recommend that you put another pot with distilled water and aloe vera so that it heats up and melts well. It may take some time, and also later you will have to wait until it is warm so you can mix it with the above.
In the first pot, when you see that everything is already mixed and melted, add wheat germ oil, zinc oxide and essence if you want a nice smell in the cream. Otherwise, just the above. Keep stirring to mix everything together.
Once the second pan is warmed up, you will need to add it to the first one and stir until everything is well combined.
Now, before going any further, We recommend having glass containers to fill with the mixture. If you do it now, you’ll get it, when it hardens (which it will when it’s cold), you won’t have to keep changing it. But if you only have plastic and they cannot withstand high temperatures, you will have to wait for it to cool down and then put it on.
Do aloe vera sunscreens really protect?
Una de las dudas que se te puede pasar por la cabeza es si realmente hacer un protector solar con aloe vera es better que comprar uno que sabes el factor de protection que tiene y que, al fin y al cabo, te has fiado de él toda the life.
What is certain is that many sunscreens and sunscreens sold contain a lot of chemicals that sometimes we don’t know and that can even be toxic or harmful to the skin (despite the fact that they protect us).
But it does not stop there. And it is that, when you put on sunscreen and enter the water, it contaminates that water and with it all the animals and plants that are there. With this you will damage the environment.
That’s why many opt for something more natural that is known to protect, but won’t harm the environment.
In addition, from what we have discovered, aloe vera sunscreens protect the skin much better from solar radiation. Among other things, because prevent the appearance of sunburn (Burns). But, in addition, it also protects the skin from the consequences of sun exposure.
Sunscreen… and something else
Normally, when you use sunscreen, you know it’s only for tanning. It should be taken half an hour before, so that when we go to the sun it already acts as a barrier. But, after that, it has no other use.
However, in the case of aloe vera sunscreen, it has another use. Not only will it serve to protect you from the sun and not burn you, but also, After that day at the beach, at the pool or simply in the sun, you can apply it again as an after-sun.
That is to say, it will help you relieve the feeling of dryness and tightness of the skin (due to exposure to heat and sun, despite using the cream). But it will also help hydrate your skin, not just from the sun, but in general. Actually, it is advisable to apply it for a minimum of 2-3 days so that the skin is nourished.
Now that you know how to make aloe vera sunscreen and the heat is coming, don’t you think your skin deserves something that’s healthier and won’t damage your skin in the future? Do you know any other herbal sunscreen recipes?