Shelf life of homemade products.

Shelf life of homemade products.

by Barb
(Ontario, Canada)

What about shelf life of products? is there any natural preservative to use in homemade products? Sometimes when people receive a gift of homemade Milk Bath, for instance, they don't use it immediately.

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Shelf life of homemade products.

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shelf life of homemade products
by: gill

Vitamin E oil is a natural perservative, I always add 1 teaspoon which is about 5ml to any of my homemade products.

I also use Grapefruit Seed Extract and my dosage is between 15/20 drops of this to any of my finished products, this is the last ingredient to go into my products before adding my essentail oils.

I make up a basic batch and leave the essential oils out I then put into a container and refridgerate, I have still got products in my fridge from April, and is still ok. When I need some of the product I take it out of the container then put into a seperate container and add the essential oils, again I tend to use this within 2/3 months, as a little goes a long way.

Hope this helps.

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