Big fail: Rose and almond hand cream

Neal's Yard Remedies
Neal's Yard Remedies
I tried the rose and almond hand cream tonight from "Neal's Yard Remedies: Recipes for Natural Beauty" tonight. The recipe calls for:
  • cocoa butter
  • beeswax
  • almond oil
  • rosewater
  • emulsifying wax
  • rose absolute
I didn't have any emulsifying wax on hand, so I tried to be clever and use borax.  Borax is an emulsifying agent. Big, huge fail here. The cream turned out grainy and thin. I guess I need to track down some emulgator at the neighborhood apotheke.

But with the rosewater and rose absolute, the mixture does smell divine.

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