Want thicker and longer eyelashes? No..move along, BUT If your answer is yes, keep reading…   🙂

The main ingredient of this serum is castor oil. Castor oil has been used for hundreds of years for health and beauty. The colour can vary from pale yellow to golden yellow, and it has a sticky consistency (very sticky!!). Castor oil has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties,  is high in vitamin E, proteins, minerals, and omega 6 and 9 fatty acids. This amazing oil also contains ricinoleic acid which when combined with its other properties aids in blood circulation to hair follicles; increasing and thickening hair growth.

I have been using this serum for the past month and have seen a real difference in the length of my lashes; increase in thickness has yet to hit me…but I have faith, faith, faithhheeee (you know what song I’m singing, oh George). I have also been applying this serum to my eyebrows (I did not inherit the thick eyebrow gene 😦  , they are sparse people, very sparse), and I can say that they are starting to fill in nicely.

I bought semi-fancy mascara tubes to use for application, but one could fill the serum into a round jar and use a q-tip for application (please be careful around eye area with q-tips, I don’t want anyone poking their eyes out); but for me a mascara tube works best. I keep this baby on my night table and apply every night before going to sleep.

Hope you guys love this product as much as I do, and send me your comments if you have any ideas to improve it even further, or simply want to tell me you appreciate it as much as I do.

INGREDIENTS

20g Castor oil

2g Beeswax

2g Vegetable Glycerine

1g Vitamin E

1 drop Lavender Essential Oil (I add this because I am obsessed with its smell, you can substitute it for another EO you like better, or leave it out altogether)

4 drops Grapefruit seed extract (this I add as a natural preservative that helps prevent bacterial/fungal growth)

HOW TO

Sterilize all the tools you will be using; I use rubbing alcohol. You should also wear gloves while adding the vitamin E, lavender oil and grapefruit seed extract, as they are concentrated and should not touch the skin directly.

I placed a glass bowl over a pot with some water to make a double boiler. Turn the heat to low, until you have a light simmer. I then placed the castor oil and beeswax into the bowl and allowed them to melt and made sure I combined them thoroughly. Remove from heat. In a separate bowl I heated the vegetable glycerine on the double broiler; you really do not need to heat it up too much, just a tad, till it’s warmish. Then add the glycerine to the oil mixture. Now you’re gonna need some patience and arm muscle here, as you need to keep stirring these two together until they start to cool and the beeswax starts to solidify. It took me about 5 minutes. You will end up with a whitish gel like cream. You’re mixture should be cool enough now to add the vitamin E, Lavender oil, and grapefruit seed extract. I wait until the mixture is cool to add these last few ingredients, because otherwise the heat might destroy their properties.

As I said earlier I placed mine into a mascara tube. To do this I put the finished serum into a sandwhich bag, snipped of the end and squeezed it into the tube. Yes it will clog, yes you will need to tap the mixture down until you fill this tube, yes patience is required….but is the finished product awesome? YES INDEEDY!