Recently I got annoyed when I saw my lotion was running low (first world problems). I then thought well I'll just go online and buy myself an emergency bottle for these such times. I was somewhat dismayed when I realised just how expensive natural lotion was - around £20 for roughly 200ml.
I make about 400ml worth and it lasts me for 2 months and costs around £2.50 exc time, so even if I price myself at £20 per hour I'm still in the green not to mention the obvious perks of being able to adjust the recipe accordingly. Thinking about it now I probably should have added some cocoa butter to thicken it a bit but it the texture isn't my primary goal at the moment.
This particular recipe is actually designed for a pump bottle but I didn't finish my hand wash in time - a like to reuse the bottle - go recycling! So I've put them in tubs, it's lotion rather than cream, but I'm hoping I adjusted the recipe enough so that the lotion still stays on the skin happily for a good 15 hours or so.
I try to think of it like baking, sorting out your dry mix and wet mix separately, so in this case, sort your water mix (water, rose water, glycerin) and then your oil butter wax mix.
Ingredients (interchangeable with mls)
- 15g Beeswax - Binds the oil to the water
- 40g Coconut oil - moisturising
- 11g Lanolin - sealing
- 18g Mango Butter - anti greasy feeling
- 27g Aloe Butter - moisturising and anti greasy feeling
- 90g Sunflower oil - moisturising
Put these ingredients into the pyrex and double boiler (pan on stove with water). Melt and stir until you can't see any wax. While this is melting, boil and measure your water, don't add the rose water and glycerin to the water mixture until the oil is ready for it to be blended in.
Cool down the oil until it starts to look murky, then add these ingredients
- 20g Cyclomethicone - sheen and anti greasy feeling
- 3/4 tsp Neem oil - antibacterial/preservative
- 5ml Vitamin E - antioxidant / stops oils from smelling funny
Give it a quick whisk. Use the spatula to grab any leftover oils at the bottom
- 120ml filtered and boiled water - moisturising
- 20ml Rose water - moisturising
- 5ml Glycerin - humectant, moisturising
Add the rose water and glycerin to your water mix. SLOWLY add mixed water to the mixed oil whilst whisking on low. Should take minimum 10 minutes or you're going to fast. Every now and then stop the whisk and run the spatula along the sides and the bottom. When you have about 20 ml of water left, add the essential oils. Whisk until the water is fully incorporated and then whisk for a further 1 or 2 minutes.
- 7 drops Geranium essential oil - preservative and nice to skin
- 4 drop Patchouli - this and all others have great properties but were added for fragrance
- 4 drop Jasmine
- 1 x Tea tree
- 3 x Rosewood
- 3 x Bergamot
- 2 x Calendula - moisturising
- Electric whisk
- Mixing utensils, tissue and baby wipes
Clean up with tissues and then baby wipes and then wash as normal, put the tubs you're not using right now in the fridge and write the date on top. Use within 3 months. Put any extra fresh on your skin though waste not want not.😁
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