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A 3 Ingredient DIY Aftershave

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[Note from Mantic59: Brandon Kelly is one of Sharpologist’s Web developers, adding functionality, fixing things, and helping keep the site safe from spammers and other ne’er-do-wells.  He uses a 3 ingredient home-made aftershave he mixes himself]

Extremely easy recipe and this aftershave works great specially in the winter months:

  • 1/8 cup coconut oil
  • 1/4 cup Shea butter – I get the raw Shea butter from http://www.empowervillage.com/.  A close friend owns the company, it’s fair trade and he works with the Women in Burkina Faso.
  • essential oil of your choice – a few drops of clove, cinnamon, bergamot, or any other essential oil or combination ( I use lavendar and grapefruit)

Add the coconut oil and shea butter to a glass bowl and melt over a pan of boiling water. Once the oil and shea butter is melted add the essential oil and use a wisk to stir on a regular basis so the oil emulsifies until it turns into a cream/butter.  Takes about an hour total once the oil has melted.
 

Brandon Kelly

Brandon Kelly

11 thoughts on “A 3 Ingredient DIY Aftershave”

  1. I have a very similar recipe. I add a few drops of vitamin E oil as a preservative and for the extra skin benefits. Just remember to keep this in an airtight container to prevent it from spoiling.

  2. I used this same recipe and then I went an extra step and whipped it all up with my mixer at home. This makes it super light and fluffy, turning it into a whipped cream consistency. Very nice after shave, especially because when it’s whipped, I notice it doesn’t leave a very glossy look on my face.

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  4. Unfortunately, this recipe as written does not make sense. And emulsion is a mixture of two normally unmixable liquids, typically an oil and a water. In this case, both Shea butter and coconut oil are both fats that readily mixed together once melted. There is no way to create an emotion as there is no water in this case. Once melted, these substances do not change in consistency no matter how much you whisk over heat. I even used an immersion blender with this which produced no lasting change in the consistency of the liquid. I think this recipe requires some clarification. Did you mean to take the mixture off the heat once the essential oils are added, and then to periodically whisk the mixture as it cools? I do not see what continued heating and whisking over heat accomplish in this case. I like the idea of this, but more specifics are necessary please.

  5. WOW, I _JUST_ made a similar cocktail, using cocoa butter in the place of shea.
    Maybe this isn’t applicable to shea butter recipes, but in my case, the cocoa butter clumped up massively after the mix cooled off.
    I learned later that you can’t just melt and mix these items then let them cool off at room temperature. They need to go from being melted and mixed to chilled in a fridge or, preferably, a freezer. If this step if ignored, the consistency of your balm will be disgustingly lumpy.

  6. Isn’t this just going to solidify again once it cools down? Is it going to end up similar in appearance to the solid colognes from Mundus?

  7. It would be cool to see photo or video demonstration to know what to look for and see how the ingredients change when making it

  8. Thanks for the recipe. I’m looking forward to trying this. So many aftershaves have so many ingredients, including many potentially sensitizing chemicals. A simpler, more natural approach sounds nice.

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