Y10 Chemists - Creating Cold Cream

Last Monday, our Y10 chemists created their own cold cream out of beeswax, vegetable oil, and baking soda! Cold cream is an emulsification of water in oil and is so called due to the cooling effect it has on the skin. To make cold cream, our wonderful Y10 chemists melted beeswax in oil in one beaker. They then dissolved baking soda in rosewater in another beaker before slowly adding it to the molten beeswax. It wouldn’t be a pleasant cream if it smelled like vegetable oil! Therefore, when the mixture started to solidify, they added a few drops of jasmine essential oil to give the cream a nice fragrance. They then transferred everything into a sterile little jar, ready to be used within 2-3 days.  

A massive thank you to our amazing Y12 scientists: Anuyah, Elona, Moska, Mania, and Yasmin for their help!