Q&A for How to Make Loose Face Powder Into Compact at Home

You can use lotion while making your bronzer, but that would make it a liquid-like bronzer. You cannot use lotion as a substitute for rubbing alcohol though. The whole point is that the rubbing alcohol will allow the mixture to mold into your container and it will then evaporate out leaving you with a pressed powder. Lotion would not do this.

No! Nail polish remover can burn your face. Use isopropyl alcohol instead.

No, you can't. Rubbing alcohol will soften and mold the powder, before evaporating. Water will make the powder soggy and ruin it.

Foundation will give it color, but it will be unlikely to set, as the mixture will be too runny.

Rose water would work as a good primer, but not to make a compact powder. Try to use rubbing alcohol instead.

Yes, it should work fine as a substitute to rubbing alcohol.

It wouldn't work very well. For the face, don't use rubbing alcohol. Toner does wonders for your skin if you have oily skin.

Use the alcohol. Hydrogen peroxide can burn or not mix with anything else your using

Yes, you can. It will need a little longer to dry and will maybe not be that pretty, but it will do the job.

No and Yes. No, because Isopropyl or rubbing alcohol is not good for the body and not food-grade and yes, because if you want it for decorations of to make colored cornstarch for fun.

A tissue works also, although a paper towel is recommended. A paper towel will absorb the extra moisture without falling apart like a tissue would.

Many toners have a high alcohol content, so that MAY work (I've not tested it), but it would likely leave impurities in your pressed powder, causing it to flake out of the container. Just to be safe, stick with isopropyl. If the smell terribly offends you, you could use Everclear.

Alcohol will work on this, however witch hazel will not give you the same results, unfortunately.

No! Hand sanitizer has lots of harsh chemicals that can ruin your face and cause rashes and breakouts.

It is possible you didn't press it hard enough. If you let it set without pressing, there might be a lot of space between the powder particles, thus its would break more easily. If pressed too hard, it might also become too stiff. Wait until the powder is no longer liquid and more of a stiff cream texture. Get a tissue or similar and a flat object that fits into the shape of the compact; for example, the lid of a foundation bottle or a lipstick tube. Put the tissue on top of the powder and use the flat object to press the powder evenly on the whole surface.

Considering perfume has a high alcohol content, this might actually result in a pressed powder, but I would absolutely not do this; fragrance is bad for the skin and could certainly cause a reaction in such amounts (not to mention it would smell so strongly it would likely be irritating to the nose and eyes).

Higher is better. It could work even with 70%, but any non-alcohol ingredient wouldn't evaporate and might change the consistency of the pressed powder, possibly making it unusable.

No. The powder won't dry and become hard. You need a high alcohol content liquid, and any lotion-type ingredients will not evaporate and will stay in the powder, possibly making it more a cream.