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1/22/2020

 
I've been searching for recipes for body lotions as I was nearing the end of my current plastic encased product.  There are lots of recipes to choose from out there, but my criteria is simple...easy!

I wanted to limit the ingredients and choose a recipe that had ingredients that I could use for multiple products because, quite honestly...the costs were adding up.  Once you start down the road of Essential Oils...ooh la la!  So here it is - I will bold the choices that I made - but there are options with how you make it. 

Place close attention to Step #5 - make sure to warm up your rose water, distilled water or aloe vera juice.  I didn't do this well enough and the melted part of my lotion hardened pretty quick midstream. :(  My lotion therefore has lumps that might not be there if you follow the instructions correctly!  However, I can say that it is extremely effective and keeps my hands and body better moisturized than my store bought plastic encased brand.  My yield was 2 small mason jars and I would call it more of a body butter than a lotion, but it works well!  Cost was about $9 and yes I would make it again. 

Less Oily Homemade Lotion
Ingredients:
• 1 cup rose water (You can also use distilled water or aloe vera juice)
• 1/2 cup beeswax
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1/4 cup jojoba (You can also use sweet almond oil, olive oil or avocado oil)
• 1 tsp vitamin E oil (Optional)
• Essential oils ( I chose Frankincense and Sweet Orange) 

Instructions:
  1. Pour the beeswax, coconut oil, jojoba oil, vitamin E and essential oils into a container that can be used as a double boiler (I always use a large mason jar).
  2. Fill a medium sized sauce pan with a few inches of water.
  3. Place the container into the sauce pan and bring the water to a gentle boil.
  4. As the ingredients start to melt, stir them together (I use a chopstick for this! You can use a popsicle stick as well).
  5. Warm up the rose water. I do this in another jar in the same sauce pan. You want these to be right around the same temperature.
  6. Pour the heated rose water and melted oil/wax mixture into a food processor (I use a large bowl and a hand blender which I think is far easier to clean!)
  7. Let this cool until it starts to harden (usually about 20 minutes).
  8. Blend the ingredients to combine!
  9. Use a spatula to move your new lotion into your desired container (I like mason jars for this too!)

Recipe source: Delicious Obsessions

April 3, 2020 - Update - it's a great lotion, I would make again and pay closer attention to the heated rose water part and I think I probably didn't whip it long enough.  But it is not a pump'able lotion! 
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4/25/2020 07:07:00 am

Now that almost everybody is under quarantine, I have plenty of time to do and explore anything. I'm glad to see your blog for some tips in making my own lotion. Perhaps if I follow this, I will see that it's much better from the commercialized lotion that I always buy. I sometimes choose to apply essential oils on my skin instead of scented lotion. I know that lesser chemical means healthier skin. Maybe because of too much chemicals in our food that we intake and the products that we put on our skin, may diseases or illness have been discovered.


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