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Homemade Lotion Recipes
This recipe is one of many great homemade lotion recipes which will kiss your skin with softness and all natural goodness.
Making your own lotion is really not that difficult. Have you ever made mayonnaise?
The process of emulsification in making mayonnaise is the same for lotion. Basically you mix oils and water together.
Lotion is thinner and lighter than body butters.
It glides on easy and works great for moisturizing the entire body or just the face.
The oils you use can be somewhat drying, highly lubricating or anything in between.
Lotion recipes contain water which will result in a shorter shelf life. I suggest using distilled water.
You can store the exra jars in the fridge or give away as gifts.
When using a jar, use a popsicle stick or other tool to scoop the lotion out of the jar. This will prevent contamination and make the lotion last longer.
The possibility for carrier oils in homemade lotion recipes are:
- Peanut - rich, heavy, strong aroma ~ good for dry, malnourished skin.
- Canola - light, not very nourishing ~ good for most skin types.
- Jojoba - protective, lubricating, some UV protection ~ good for dry, damaged skin.
- Olive - stable, heavy, strong aroma, slower to absorb into skin ~ good for dry skin.
- Apricot kernel - light, odorless, somewhat drying ~ good for oily akin.
- Hemp - rich, nutritive, penetratingm strong aroma ~ good for all skin types.
- Avocado - rich, heavy, penetrating ~ good for dry, damaged skin.
- Grapeseed - light, odorless, drying ~ good for acne-prone skin.
- Rosehip seed - my favorite, good for dry, mature skin.
- Herbal infused oils - usually made with olive oil and herbs such as calendula, St Johns Wort, comfrey.
- Other good oils to include in small amounts are emu and wheat germ.
Solid oils act as an emulsifier and are super rich!
Good solid oils are:
- Coconut oil
- Cocoa butter
- Shea butter
How to make lotion
For successful lotions you need to have equal proportions of oil to water and the both have to be at body temperature.
The oils have be be a combination of 2 parts liquid oil to 1 part solid oil.
Homemade Lotion Recipes
- 3 oz rosehip seed oil
- 2 Tablespoons wheat germ oil
- 1 Tablespoon each hemp seed oil and avocado oil
- Add enough grapeseed oil to make 6 oz.
OR any combination of the carrier oils mentioned in the above box to equal 6 oz.
- 3 oz coconut oil OR any combination of solid oils above
- 1 oz beeswax
- 9 oz distilled water OR 6 oz distilled water and 3 oz aloe vera gel
- 19 drops grapefruit seed extract (a preservative)
- 40 drops lavender essential oil OR essential oils of choice
Follow these easy directions:
- Pour your liquid oils into a 16 oz heat proof measuring cup
- Add pieces of solid oils until volume reaches 9 oz mark.
- Add pieces of beeswax until volume reaches 10 oz mark.
- Place measuring cup in a pan of gently simmering water and heat until solid oils are just melted.
- Remove measuring cup from water and let sit until oils reach body temperature. Test by placing the measuring cup on wrist. When it feels neither warm nor cold it is body temperature. Stir occasionally as it cools.
- Make sure distilled water is body temperature. You can simply place the water into another heat proof measuring cup and into the pan of hot water used for heating the oils.
- Pour the water into a blender and add grapefruit seed extract.
- Process at high speed. If you have a powerful blender process at low speed. You can use a hand mixer but it will take longer.
- Slowly add the oil mixture into the water.
- It will begin to thicken and sputter. In a high powered mixer this can be as quick as 30 seconds. With a hand mixer it will take 15 minutes at highest speed.
- Continue until you have a thick, creamy liquid.
- Add essential oils and stir in well by hand.
Scoop into clean sterilized jars. Makes 19 oz.
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