Thread: Homemade pre shave save tons of cash

Don't know if I have ever seen this topic on this forum. So I made a homemade preshave oil today. All these elements in this preshave oil including the bottles cost me around 30.00 I made About nine ounces of this stuff today.. Here is how I did it .. I used a nine ounce cup .. I filled half with castor,oil and half with olive oil.. Then added about 4-8 drops of the lemon essential oil.. Castor oil is available at any health food shop I found mine at the local chain store the vitamin shoppe.. The essential oil also was purchased there.. The olive oil was purchased at my local supermarket.. The plastic containers are all over the place.. I found mine at the local pharmacy in the travel size section.. You can add more or less of the essential oil depending on how strong or weak you want your scent .. I'm still experimenting with that aspect.. Any questions let me know .. I believe this is the same recipe used in the aos pre shave oils.. There are all,kinds of recipes out there just do a google search you will find 1000's.. So I believe the average costs of a 8-12 oz preshave oil is about 8-12 bucks..so 24 ounces will cost you about the same as making 8-10 containers of 9 oz containers yourself.. A huge savings.. What's lovely is you can change the scents and recipes to anything you like.. Good luck

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I got one better! For me preshave never did anything for my shave so I don't use it at all. But I love olive oil in my food and cooking! LOL.

For some reason I have shaved with and without it.. For some reason the shave seems to be more smooth .. But afterwards my face is just so soft after using a pre shave oil.

Aos actually 22.00 for two ounces of this stuff OMG..

This pre-shave oil recipe has gotten around SRP and other forums.

I used to make my own oil using this recipe, but I stopped using pre-shave oils because they didn't really help my shaves. My first pre-shave oil was an AOS Sandlewood, which used the same ingredients.

But, you're right, making your own oil saves you a lot of cash.

It's fun to make your own stuff, and by doing so you know exactly what is in there. I do use preshave oils sometimes, mostly in the winter when the air gets rather dry, but I only use a few drops of it. I did make my own, but any savings were not noticeable for me - I made a 2 oz bottle and it is still near half full, over a year later
Aftershave splashes, on the other hand

I have so much of this stuff now. I used it yesterday was good but I think I like my prosaro preshave better is it really just noxema?

Sounds like you have enough to shave with and put on salads for the next 4 years. Doesn't your mother in law sell soap or something? Maybe she could help you sell it. I would look at the 99 cent store for bottles if your going into mass production. I don't use the stuff and maybe missing something. What I don't know doesn't bother me much :<0)

Just for the record, most olive oils in the market today have been discovered to not be pure. I may not be spot on here, but I believe the best test is to put it in the fridge. If it solidifies, its olive oil, if it stays liquid, its cut with other oils.