Baby gourmet recipes are a great way to offer breast milk in another form. However, if breast milk is no longer good, it is not recommended to offer it to baby. What can you do with breast milk when it is no longer good? Make natural homemade cosmetics!
The benefits of breast milk in homemade cosmetic products
Breast milk is an essential ally for homemade cosmetic products! With its calming, protective and moisturizing properties, homemade cosmetics based on breast milk will be perfect for giving soft skin to baby and the rest of the family! A nice natural way to take care of everyone's skin!
A breast milk soap
A breast milk soap is possible! This soap makes the skin more than soft and will hydrate it at the same time. In just 10 minutes, you can make the soap in your kitchen. Forward for the recipe!
The ingredients
To make the recipe for breast milk soap, you need:
- 50 ml of breast milk
- 50 gr of Marseille soap in shavings
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
In terms of equipment, you will need a saucepan, a whisk, a spatula and soap molds of your choice.
The recipe
- Melt the Marseille soap shavings over low heat in a saucepan in breast milk. To prevent the milk from heating up too quickly, you can do it in a double boiler
- Add the coconut oil to the preparation, leaving the pan on the heat.
- Mix the preparation gently with a whisk from time to time. This will avoid burning the soap and having lumps.
- Pour the preparation into the soap molds of your choice.
- Place the molds flat in the freezer for 24 hours so that the soaps cool.
- Once the soaps are well frozen, unmold them.
- Before you can use your breast milk soap, let it dry for 1 month in a dry and ventilated place. To standardize the drying, do not forget to turn the soap from time to time and place it on a rack so that the air circulates well all around.
A breast milk cream
A breast cream cream that will help you treat small injuries on a daily basis. Whether for baby or for adults, this cream makes miracles to soothe for example baby buttocks, dry skins, redness, eczema or crevices during breastfeeding.
The ingredients
To make homemade breast cream, you need:
- 23 gr of breast milk at room temperature
- 23 gr of oil
- 2 gr of yellow beeswax
- 2.1 gr of natural vitamin E
In terms of equipment, you will need a saucepan, a bowl, a whisk, a spatula, a glass jar with a lid
The recipe
- Melt the yellow beeswax and vegetable oil in a saucepan over low heat
- Mix everything gently to make the preparation homogeneous
- Remove the pan from the heat
- Pour the preparation into a bowl
- Add the breast milk and whip quickly until the preparation thickens and cools.
- Add the vitamin E to the preparation and mix the preparation
- Pour the breast cream in a glass jar
The balm keeps in the fridge. It is possible to take the cream with your fingers or a spatula.
Recipes based on breast milk are perfect for avoiding waste of milk good for baby. With its many benefits, you can take care of your skin and those from the whole family with these two cosmetic products in breast milk!
