This DIY anti-aging healing skin serum uses aloe vera, coconut oil, and a customizable blend of essential oils to support elasticity, calm inflammation, and promote skin healing. Easy to make and safe for daily use, it helps with dryness, sun damage, irritation, and overall skin rejuvenation.
Essential oils you can use to personalize this healing skin serum:
- Lavender: anti-aging antioxidant support
- Tea Tree: fungi- and bacteria-fighting skin cleanser
- Frankincense: cellular repair and inflammation reduction
- Helichrysum: deep healing and scar support
- Sandalwood: hydration, balance, and calming benefits
A versatile recipe for youthful, glowing, nourished skin.
This Anti-Aging Cream & Skin Healing Serum is one of my most popular DIYs. It’s helped thousands of people get the younger, glowing skin they deserve. I often get asked how I keep my skin looking so supple. I was born in 1978, and most people think I’m much younger. This cream is my secret! I know it’s going to become a staple in your beauty routine as well! It’s great for burns, psoriasis, eczema, and other skin-healing issues.
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My Dad’s Skin Cancer Story
My dad is a retired agriscientist, and he has always been – and likely always will be – a passionate hobby farmer. In addition to his full-time job, he’s spent more than forty hours per week in the garden for as long as I can remember. He lived outside during the growing season, and a lot of our family time was spent picking weeds and harvesting our produce. Even now, long retired from the agriculture business, he’s still in the garden year-round. I have him to thank for my work ethic, green thumb, and sensitive skin!
Dad’s been bald for years now, and he’s always had a problem with cancerous lesions on his scalp. He goes through ball caps as I go through pantyhose, but that still doesn’t keep the sun away from his pale skin. For decades, my dad has battled melanoma on his head and recently developed precancerous lesions on his arms and hands.
During my dad’s most recent bout with skin cancer, he showed me the cream his doctor prescribed. One of its side effects was cancer! Isn’t that crazy?? I still can’t get over the insanity behind an anti-skin cancer cream that can cause cancer in other parts of the body.
Dad had been applying this cream on his skin for months after having several tumors removed. Unfortunately, this approach didn’t help at all. In fact, the skin began to scale and resembled a candida infection.
I asked him if he wanted to be healed, and he said, “Of course!” I asked him if he’d be willing to try my favorite DIY anti-aging skin cream, and he said yes, but only if he could finish off the prescription stuff he was using. I said, “Fair enough,” and went to work.
I ended up making my dad two varieties of my anti-aging cream for him to try: one with lavender essential oil and another with a blend of lavender, tea tree, and frankincense. He used my cream alongside the prescription stuff for a short time but decided my concoctions worked better! From what we can tell, the precancerous lesions were not a sign of a candida infection. They disappeared and didn’t progress to melanoma.
Within six weeks, his hands and arms were completely clear, and now he’s a believer in the power of DIY with essential oils!
Anti-Aging & Healing Skin Serum Ingredients
You might be wondering just what’s in this miracle-working cream. The answer is simple: pure ingredients and essential oils. In other words, it is medicine straight from God! Here’s more information on each component.
Fresh Frozen Aloe or Aloe Vera Gel: Aloe vera gel helps boost your skin’s collagen production. (1) More collagen means your skin has more elasticity and fewer wrinkles! Aloe vera gel has a cooling effect that feels heavenly on the skin. To get the full benefits, use pure aloe vera gel.
Organic Coconut Oil: Coconut oil is a great natural moisturizer! It contains medium-chain triglycerides, which have antimicrobial properties. (2) These properties help protect your skin against bacteria-based infections like acne. Coconut oil is one of my favorite moisturizers for the face because it leaves skin silky, not greasy!
Lavender Essential Oil: Lavender is full of antioxidants. (3) Antioxidants are great for your body because they help destroy unstable atoms, also known as free radicals, that can speed up aging. It’s an obvious choice for an anti-aging serum! Lavender essential oil is a great option if you struggle with anxiety, as it’s calming.
5 Things to Look for When Purchasing Aloe Vera
Your skin is a sponge, and it absorbs everything you put on it, good or bad. You want to use the best ingredients possible! Many aloe vera gels on the market contain fillers and other additives that you wouldn’t want in your body. Here are some things to look for when purchasing an aloe vera gel.
- 100% pure
- Inner leaf gel only
- No citric acid or sodium benzoate
- Raw
- Not decolored or deodorized
2 Steps to the Perfect Anti-Aging Cream & Healing Skin Serum
This DIY is easy to make, and it makes a LOT of product. Who knows? Maybe you have a loved one in your life who could use this serum as much as my dad did!
Anti-Aging Cream & Healing Skin Serum
Quantity
Ingredients
- 4 ounces fresh OR frozen aloe vera gel
- 4 ounces coconut oil, extra-virgin AND unrefined, melted*
- 64 drops lavender essential oil**
Instructions
- Blend the aloe gel, coconut oil, and essential oil in a food processor or blender until smooth.
- Once well mixed, store in a glass jar or salve container in a cool place (like the fridge) so the coconut oil remains hardened.
- Apply over any problem areas on your skin at least once per day.
Step One: Blend the Ingredients
First, blend the aloe vera gel, essential oil, and coconut oil in a Magic Bullet or food processor until smooth.
Step Two: Store the Mixture
Once the mixture is combined, scoop into a glass jar or glass salve container. Store in a fridge or cool place so the coconut oil stays hardened. Make a fresh batch each week!
Anti-Aging Cream Variations
Anti-Fungal Variation
Use the above recipe, but swap the lavender essential oil for this combination: 32 drops lavender essential oil, 16 drops tea tree essential oil, and 16 drops frankincense essential oil.
Maximum Care Variation
Use the same recipe as above, but swap the lavender essential oil for this combination: 32 drops lavender essential oil, 16 drops tea tree essential oil, 16 drops frankincense essential oil, 18 drops helichrysum essential oil, and 18 drops sandalwood essential oil. If you have other skin issues, feel free to swap some of the coconut oil for organic rosehip seed oil (vitamin A) and/or vitamin E oil.
Dry Skin Hack
If you have dry skin or eczema, you can neutralize the skin’s PH balance by gently exfoliating. No need to be rough! A cotton circle doused in organic, unfiltered apple cider vinegar works great. Gently rub it on your skin and watch the glow begin!
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2883372/#:~:text=Aloe%20gel%20significantly%20improves%20wrinkles,dose%20and%20high%2Ddose%20groups.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32602684/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26247152/
