I have dry skin, and I live in a dry climate, so I go through a lot of lotion! Making it myself allows me to include beneficial ingredients for my skin at a much lower price point than buying products with similar ingredients. I include soothing ingredients, like cica, calendula, and colloidal oatmeal, as well as AHAs for chemical exfoliation to help with keratosis pilaris, and hyaluronic acid to help with hydration.
I don’t include any fragrance since that can be irritating to the skin, so the lotion has a faint scent of the actual ingredients – I can pick out the calendula and oat, but mostly it just smells fresh.
I also include a preservative and antioxident to keep the lotion fresh on my bathroom counter. (Also make sure that all of your equipment, workspace and hands are very clean. A spray bottle of rubbing alcohol can disinfect surfaces and equipment, just spray and let it dry.) I go through this amount of body lotion in about 6 weeks, but it should store for up to 6 months.
I use a scale to measure out the ingredients, so all amounts listed are in grams.
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- Kitchen Scale
- Refined Shea Butter
- Cica & Calendula Infused Apricot Oil (video short)
- Gotu Kola (Cica)
- Calendula
- Fine Mesh Strainer
- MCT Oil
- Emulsifying Wax
- Colloidal Oatmeal
- Hyaluronic Acid Powder
- AHAs
- Glycerin
- Optiphen Plus
- Vitamin E Oil
- Immersion Blender (similar)
- Glass containers
Soothing Cica and Calendula Body Lotion
Ingredients
- 90g refined shea butter
- 37.5g cica & calendula infused apricot oil
- 37.5g MCT oil
- 37.5g emulsifying wax
- 525g boiled water (or distilled)
- 7.5g colloidal oatmeal
- .75g hyaluronic acid powder
- 7.5g AHAs
- 22.5g glycerin
- 7.5g optiphen plus (preservative)
- 7.5g vitamin E oil (antioxident)
Directions
- Combine shea butter, apricot oil, MCT oil, and emusifying wax in a glass measuring cup and set in a pot of water over medium heat until fully melted.
- In the meantime, in a separate measuring cup, add the water, colloidal oatmeal, hyaluronic acid, AHA, and glycerin, and use an immersion blender to fully combine.
- Slowly pour the oil mixture into the water mixture, blending with the immersion blender to fully combine and emulsify. Continue blending as the mixture cools.
- Once the mixture is warm, but not hot, add the preservative and vitamin e oil and blend to combine.
- Pour into jars for storage. The mixture will continue to thicken as it cools.
Use the lotion within 6 months.
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