- This is my impression of a lot of the beauty commercials.
Ready?
Hey, Insider, splash water onto your face.
It doesn't get on the sink.
She's got glowy skin.
And then they punch breakouts out of the frame.
And then you're just like, yeah, totally.
And then you wake up the next day a little sad.
(upbeat music)
- I've always been super curious
about these alternative skincare regiments,
alternative health regiments.
So this month, I am making my own skincare products.
I'm bringing in expert, Tina Hedges.
Tina is the CEO and founder of LOLI Beauty.
- I think you need three products, not 15
and they shouldn't take away what your skin
or hair really needs.
They should just amplify what you already have.
I'm not doing this because I need my name
or my picture on a product.
I'm doing it because I really believe
the beauty industry needs to be stirred up,
and we need to make a clean and conscious change.
- It's also come to my attention
that a lot of the products that we know and love
are completely unsustainable.
The way that they're made and manufactured
and packaged and marketed.
It's just not good for the environment.
You are like a New York CEO businesswoman.
And I have a 2001 Toyota Corolla.
- I love it.
I don't even have a car.
Like, at least you have a car.
- We're here, and shopping with Tina
is literally blowing my baby mind
'cause I'm picking up these products
being like, "Oh, I like this one".
And she's like, "It's water".
(laughs)
- All these products that are sitting on these shelves
are products that are made with 80 to 95% water,
and then over-packaged in plastic.
- So this is our haul for our DIY.
Just modeling it on my Toyota Corolla.
- When Devin first came to me
and said she wanted to do this,
I was like, "Well, how complicated do you wanna make this?"
- Yeah, so the rose hydrosol.
Where's the dead fly?
(Devin gulping)
- Y'all, let me just tell you a quick story
about me and chemistry.
I'm obsessed with skincare, but I also recognize
that if someone was like, that's an emollient.
Mhmm, emollient, that sounds like a delicious apertif.
- So if you wanna make your own beauty products at home,
don't get too fancy right away.
Start simple.
Simple doesn't mean it's not effective.
So, for example, we can make a serum.
That's like just blending a couple different oils together.
One of our elixirs is actually oils
like safflower, hibiscus, plum, pomegranate,
all with high linoleic acid content.
It will not break you out.
On the contrary, it will help your skin actually be clear.
- [Devin] Hi, Tina.
- Hey, Devin. - It's good to see you.
Welcome to our hippie kitchen.
- I love your hippie kitchen.
- Thank you.
- I've made myself right at home.
- What are you stirring?
- I got started without you a little bit, so.
- Okay. - I just get so excited.
Since we wanna make one oil serum as an infusion
and that takes a little bit of time.
What an infusion means is you can take an oil,
like sunflower is good, or olive
if you're a little bit on the drier side,
and just like you do in cooking
where you infuse spices in it,
in a mason jar, I actually brought an empty one.
And you can do it in a small quart
or a larger one like this.
So you take your oil, you pour it into your glass container,
and then you add in your roots, your botanicals
your herbs, your flowers.
Like, we could add in, if we wanted,
some rose petals right now.
And that's really good for anti-aging.
The madder root and alkanet root
are both good for their old ancient ayurvedic herbs,
that are good for like blemishes,
breakouts, sensitivity, any kind of issue you have
from even like things like psoriasis and eczema
and stuff like that.
Okay, ready?
- Watching you work is like watching witchcraft.
And I'm here for it.
- So this is our chamomile lavender micellar,
and that one product does three things.
It takes off your makeup, cleanses, tones, and hydrates.
Actually, that's four.
You can use a bottle. You don't have to go buy
fancy packaging in the beauty store or craft store.
Hot sauce bottle.
- Mmm
- Okay - Washed out
- Washed out, dishwasher, sterilized
- Oh! (bottles clang)
- (laughs) - Sorry, Tina.
Welcome to Lady Like. This is a part of it.
- So what is a micellar?
Basically it's mixing oil and water together
in very tiny proportions.
Usually they use a synthetic to make that
bind together.
And then that acts as a sort of
moisturizing makeup remover.
At LOLI, since we don't do anything
that is synthetic, what we do is we let those two phases,
oil and water, sit, you know, above each other.
And then you just shake.
It works exactly the same as that other brand
you're probably buying and its way more powerful.
I put pretty much equal parts-
- Mhm
of the witch hazel
and the distillate. - Mhm
So, I'm going to put about one ounce
and I have a little funnel that I also rinsed with alcohol.
I bought you, cause this is hard to find,
this is the chamomile hydrosol.
- Oh, it smells nice.
- If you can't find the chamomile, you can find
rose water or lavender water.
- Mhm
- About equal parts - Mhmm
- Then I'm gonna put in the glycerin.
So the glycerin is the humectant.
And see the texture - It's this sticky thing
- It's kind of a little bit of a jelly texture
And that's the humectant.
- Look at it mix.
- Right?
- Wow!
- And then, I'm gonna put in a little
bit more of the hydrosol.
Okay, you're gonna shake this up
before we do the next phase.
- Gladly.
♪Shake it, shake it. ♪
- Shake, shake.
- Now we.re gonna do the mixture of the oil phase.
- Uh huh. - So, we.re gonna start with-
- Sunflower oil.
- We could do sunflower or we could do sweet almond.
What do you prefer?
Are you more combination oily, or normal to dry?
- Mmm. I feel like in the summer, I'm more combination oily.
- Okay, then let's do sunflower oil.
- Okay.
- Okay, we're gonna mix it with jojoba.
Now the jojoba is super interesting.
Because jojoba...
Do you want to pour?
- Yes, I do.
I spilled it.
- Yeah, no I could see.
- Oh there it is.
That is so satisfying.
- Right, so jojoba which we're gonna use
is actually not an oil.
It's a wax.
It's an amazing ingredient.
It gives it that beautiful color.
- That yellow.
- And we're over filling.
You're gonna-
- Shake it up?
- Shake it up again.
Look at the beautiful colors. - Look at this you guys.
It is a lava lamp.
- Shake, shake, shake so you get the oil phase mixed.
♪ Shake it, shake it. ♪ There you go. ♪
- Wow!
- And then that's like ready to use.
Keep in a cool, dry place.
- I wanna make sure that I also hydrate.
- Right.
- And keep my face moisturized.
- Right.
- So, I kinda wanna make this balm, that you have here.
- Yep. And then the third product we're gonna make,
is that miracle balm.
Because everyone needs a miracle bomb in their cabinet.
So, you can use it from head to toe, lips.
Use it to take off waterproof makeup, which Devin
sometimes has to wear on set.
All that is super easy, doable and ingredients
you can find in your local grocery store.
We're gonna use olive oil.
We're gonna use some avocado.
Some hemp.
Since we didn't have any sunflower seed wax,
what I did, is we got the cocoa butter.
Which is amazing.
And this is actually like totally edible.
This is what you make chocolate with.
- It straight up smells like chocolate, you guys.
- I actually wanna eat some.
You can do two things at once
you could make your balm-
- And eat some chocolate.
- And make some dessert.
So, we went ahead and we double boiled this.
Smell the cocoa.
- Oh my gosh!
- Yep. First we're gonna add in some hemp.
This should be about one-quarter cup.
And then you wanna do about the equivalent of another
quarter cup of your oils.
Then your avocado.
- And then there's the olive oil.
- And then we're gonna add in-
- Frankincense, because I'm a bougie girl.
- So, you wanna do about three to five drops.
So, then once you're done with this and you've mixed it.
Right?
You could either pour it directly into your container.
Like our Lolly reusable yogurt jars.
- These are yogurt jars?
- Yeah!
- Oh my God!
- They're food grade so, you can again sterilize them
before you use them.
- This is crazy, so I'm literally just taking my makeup
off with oil, putting on my moisturizer, which is an oil,
and then we're gonna be making, one last thing.
- The serums.
- Serum!
- Get the flax seed.
- The flax seed.
- And I'm gonna tell you-
- Check, I don't know why I smelled that.
- I'm gonna tell you where to pour to.
Keep going, a little more, okay great.
- Camellia seed, what is that?
- It's actually from a flower,
of the green tea plant.
- Oh, shoot!
- Yeah.
- I know green tea.
- Pour til the top, almost the top.
- You've got it.
- Leaving a little room
because we're gonna put some essential oil.
- You got it, sister.
This is a serum, if I wear it during the day-
- You wanna use sunscreen.
- Right. Five drops of the pink grapefruit,
five drops of the sweet orange.
- Ten drops of sweet orange.
- Ten! I messed up the recipe already.
- Five drops of the sweet orange.
- Oh, ten drops of the sweet orange.
- These are my products for the month.
- Wow!
- So, it's countdown time for Devin.
- I'm gonna... a nervous burp.
You guys, sometimes I nervous burp.
Not only am I throwing away my products,
but I'm also throwing away my habits.
'Cause I'm used to, you know, going home,
taking my makeup off with an oil and then washing my face.
No, I'm not doing any of that any more.
I'm completely starting over.
Refresh the page, error, 404 code, not working .
This is an upheaval.
Let it be known, that if you have problem skin,
and you don't feel comfortable changing
up your skincare routine.
Bitch, keep it the same.
Don't fix it if it's not broke.
But if you wanna try something that's a little bit
more alternative and like hippie-dippie.
I highly recommend this (beep).
Saturday night, about to take my makeuf-
(laughs)
Time to take my makeup off with all my homemade products.
First day, I guess this is working
but then again, you know like,
I don't think I would breakout immediately,
if these oils were really affecting my skin.
I can't really tell much from the first day but,
I'm just happy I didn't wake up with like a billion pimples.
I can tell you I used my balm.
I used my micellar water.
And this serum.
I just essentially came home and covered my face in oil,
and hopped into bed.
Di Di, looks pretty good.
Monday morning, week two, so I guess this would be ten
days since I started my new skincare routine.
And I think my skin looks pretty clear.
Yeah, I'm not mad at it.
The first two weeks of this try, I did breakout.
I got a pimple here and like a pimple there.
I was like uh-oh, this is not gonna work for me.
Maybe I'm not meant to do this.
Maybe this is straight up putting oil on my face.
These pimples right here, on my cheek are really stubborn.
I'm just noticing a difference in how pimples are lasting
on my skin, since starting my new skincare regime,
and also just in general.
I just woke up, this is my complexion.
It is looking very good.
And then those pimples reacted differently.
Which told me that this was a game changer.
So, when I get a pimple, it'll like pop or come to a head.
And then it'll turn into this like dry scab.
That eventually turns into like,
a little bit of a dry crater.
I've notice that, I've gotten a lot of feedback
that my skin looks cleaner.
which seems so crazy to me because I'm literally
putting oil on top of oil, on top of oil.
This skincare routine, changed the shelf life of my pimples.
And I think that's notable.
Half-way through this challenge,
I actually went away for two and a half weeks.
I went to Namibia.
Look at all these chickens.
It is so dry there.
Living in Southern California, I thought I knew dry heat,
and like dry climates.
Hooo.
Namibia is going through an incredibly
terrible drought right now.
Which is affecting all of the agriculture.
All of, you know just... even the cities.
It's pretty drastic and how we really
should be conserving that water.
How I should really be thinking about conserving that water.
Not trying to make a comment or be preachy at all.
I'm just figuring this out myself.
This has been kind of a mind blowing experience for me.
I'm not even sure I'm doing it right but
it really has been an eye opening experience for your girl.
And that's a true, true.
Not only did I go to a different climate,
and change things up for my skin.
I went to an extreme version of a climate.
I went to like, the driest place I've ever been.
And my skin stayed pretty, she was chill.
I'm pretty much like, all out.
This is the cleansing situation.
Which was like the witch hazel and the chamomile oil.
Mixed together, this is what I used to cleanse my face.
Which means today I have to make more.
The most challenging part, believe it or not.
And this is gonna sound crazy, was sanitizing the bottles.
♪Gotta wash a bottle, gotta wash it right now. ♪
I should probably put this in the dishwasher, shouldn't I?
Well, I think I'm gonna wash it first, with hot water
and Dawn because I'm extra.
And then put it in the dishwasher.
How do you know if something is perfectly sanitized?
Right?
So, I pulled this puppy, this puppy right here
out of the dishwasher.
I washed it here, I put it in the dishwasher.
And then, I guess the dryer setting on my dishwasher,
isn't working as well as I thought it was.
So,then you think,
what if I just throw it in the microwave for ten seconds?
On the fourth second it looked
like my microwave was about to explode.
I'm still shaking.
I did that and almost burned down my house.
And that's why I'm holding it with rubber tongs,
because what if I electrocuted this glass?
Mixing the things made me feel witchy.
Look at my cute little, tasty table.
Look at these cute little top down situation.
Half-way through this try, I was doubting myself.
And then it started working and now I'm like (beep).
Your girl, she did it.
Uh, it works.
I was very cynical about it the whole way through.
And now I think I have to make my own skincare products.
'Cause I really like the way my skin looks right now.
Lot of people don't like hippie-dippie.
And I will say, If you do have an opinion about switching
up your skincare routine, in favor for something that
might be a little bit more eco-friendly, I ask,
that you reflect it respectfully down below.
Because honestly, here's the thing, I do these investigative
tries, so you don't have to.
So you don't have to spend months and weeks of your life
and money to try something that may or may not work.
Because when I go into (bleep).
♪I don't know if it's gonna be cute or not. ♪
Lady's out , bye
I feel like a pokemon evolves.
I'm Dev now, soon I'm gonna be Devin Divine
and I gonna only wear scarves.
Like in my final evolution, okay.
(laughs)