Make? or Buy?
First up on the list is eye makeup remover. When I originally was making a list of items I’ve chosen to buy, since making them wasn’t successful, eye makeup remover was on my “buy” list! But good thing I am beyond behind when it comes to getting the ideas in my head onto the blog in a timely manner, I came up with a recipe that works.
Really works.
Works better than the purchased stuff works.
And I stand behind that promise!
Prior to this little recipe, I found that all of my homemade versions did one or a few of the following things:
- Smeared my eye makeup everywhere — not really removing it, just moving it around a bit…into my pores a bit. Yeah, not a fan.
- Left my eyesight blurry for a bit. Yeah, super weird, super bothersome, not for me.
- Stung. ouch.
So really, I added eye makeup remover to my list as one to share how my success at my homemade recipes was not a success at all, and how now I fork over , , , or …or ? Yikes.
Now have I tried every eye makeup remover out there? No. And while I’m a little curious about how some of them work, I’m not curious enough to spend more money trying them all because I cannot believe how well this homemade formula works.
Three ingredients are needed:
- water
- fractionated coconut oil*
*fractionated coconut oil stays a liquid at room temperature and colder
Fill up a small container (4oz size in the photo) with water.
Add one teaspoon fractionated coconut oil.
Add 1-3 drops of baby shampoo.
….that’s it.
The shampoo helps unify the oil and the water, but I always give it a little shake prior to use. The thing that amazes me most about this remover is that it removes everything without making me look like I have two black eyes first. It really removes even heavy eye make up without blurring your vision or smearing it everywhere.
I do have one caveat: I haven’t tried it with waterproof mascara! I never wear waterproof mascara, but I will purposefully just to try this solution! I will update when I do!
UPDATE: I put on waterproof mascara this morning just so I could test it. As is, I had to work pretty hard to get the waterproof mascara off, but by up-ing the fractionated coconut oil from 2-5 teaspoons, it came off great!
Price breakdown using items shown:
- 4 oz of water: $0.01 (maybe less?)
- 1-3 drops of baby shampoo: $0.01 (and I calculated this using the ….so definitely not even a penny for cheaper shampoos)
- 1 teaspoon of fractionated coconut oil: $0.19 (calculated using this Fractionated Coconut Oil)
Grand total…. 4 oz for a whopping 21 cents. Yup. I’ll keep making and using this stuff!
I’d love to hear how you like it! What products are on your make list? your buy list?
Have a great weekend! (psst! don’t forget about the Wrenn Jewelry giveaway!)
xo
I actually don’t remove my makeup at night right now (I know – so bad!) but this definitely makes me want to start! I can’t believe how cheap it is!
let me know what you think!! hope you love it!
Great ideas! I love your BOTTLE though! Did you make them or buy them?
Yes! I will do a post on the bottles and labels soon! :)
Definitely would like to know how it works for the waterproof mascara. thanks!
about to update the post :) So it works, but you have to work at it — However!! I added more Coconut Oil, and it came off great!! So I think if you did anywhere from 2-5teaspoons of the fractionated coconut oil (depending on how good your waterproof mascara is :) it’ll work great!!
If I didn’t shower at night and just remove make up while washing my face in there this sounds amazing!! I have been making my own scrubs for awhile now, and just started up on making my own tonic as well as a few quick lotions. I really love the ease of making these at home and knowing and controlling what goes into them.
Exactly!! It’s so nice to know exactly what is in them…especially when you are paying x dollars for something that is probably mostly water anyway!!
I often use mine in the shower too! I just put some on the corner of a washcloth and voila! :)
I use California Baby shampoo too, and already have fractionated coconut oil, so definitely going to try this! Thanks for sharing :)
So funny, I was on Pinterest looking for an eye make-up remover recipe and I clicked on this one and it turned out it’s you! I’m definitely going to make this since I’m almost out of my store bought stuff. Thanks for sharing!
I hope to see you soon! :)