How to Make Homemade Body Lotions
Lotion keeps the skin feeling soft as well as moisturized. Applying lotion daily to your body can keep skin healthy. Along with healthy skin comes a big amount of money when needing to constantly buy body lotion. Learning how to make body lotion at home will save you a lot of money in the long run and ensure that lotion will always be on hand.
Items needed:
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 tablespoon glycerin
- 3 tablespoon witch-hazel
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon soap flakes
- Essential oil
- Small saucepan
- Any shade of coloring
- Small to medium container
Instructions:
- Combine the 3/4 cup of water with the 1/2 cup plus one tablespoon of soap flakes into a saucepan and place over medium heat. Keep the combination heated until the soap flakes dissolve and then remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Add the three teaspoons of glycerin, 1/4 cup of olive oil and three tablespoon of witch-hazel to the water-soap flake mixture. Stir this mixture until it cools. Add the selected fragrance of essential oil to the mixture and continue to stir. Only a few drops of essential oil is needed but more can be added or it can even be left out all together. The essential oil will add fragrance to the body lotion but is not needed to make the mixture into an actual body lotion.
- Place a few drops of the chosen coloring to the mixture and then stir. The coloring will turn the lotion to a particular shade. This is also not required to complete the homemade lotion but instead is used only to make the lotion look different.
- Pour the mixture into the container and label the outside for future reference.