Skin Moisturizing Balms, Lotions & Creams

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Making your own moisturizing balms, bars and creams is easier than some think and there are many benefits (you can choose your own ingredients and scents to work with so no harsh chemicals or dyes). These make great gifts too! Here are several different ideas you can try plus I added a floral-infused olive oil recipe at the bottom of the page (which makes a rich skin treatment). Enjoy!

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Frugal Lotion Mix: Vitamin E cream, Vaseline and pink baby lotion are mixed together then packaged in jars.

Coffee Body Lotion: Made with emulsifying wax, almond oil, hot brewed coffee, essential oils and vitamin E capsules.

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Natural Body Moisturizer: Makes approximately 2 cups, ingredients include water, brewed tea, orange blossom water or rose water, oil, beeswax and essential oil for fragrance.

Rich Lotion: Made with cocoa butter/jojoba mix, avocado oil, apricot kernel oil, olive oil, beeswax, green tea extract, borax, grapefruit seed extract, and essential oils.

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Shea Butter & Beeswax Bars: Just 4 ingredients needed: Shea butter, avocado oil, beeswax and Vitamin E oil.

Simple Bar Recipe: Made with equal parts beeswax, shea butter and sweet almond oil, essential oil of choice is also used.

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3-Ingredients Lotion: Using just olive oil (or almond or jojoba), water and emulsifying wax, you can make a scent free lotion suitable for babies or those with sensitive skin (a few drops of essential oil can be added for scent).

Hand Balm Recipe: Ingredients include beeswax, liquid oils, solid butters, starch and fragrance oils, makes 12 mini-muffin sized balms.

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Herbal Cream: Made with fresh rosemary leaves, fresh comfrey leaves, fresh lavender or patchouli leaves, olive oil, anhydrous lanolin and aloe vera gel (optional).

For The Belly: It’s very smooth and silky, but not greasy, and smells lovely which is always a must when you have a sensitive pregnancy nose.

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Hand Lotion: Made with emulsifying wax, olive oil, essential oil and hot water. Includes label download (great for gift giving).

Winter Hand Cream: Mix the ingredients and melt down then chill until the cream sets. Store in little containers or jelly jars for nice gifts for a friend or for yourself.

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Turn An Old Lotion or Body Wash Into A Body Scrub: Lotions make a rich, moisturizing body scrub while body washes make a cleansing one. These can actually be much better than a lot of store-bought body scrubs because you get to control scent and texture.

Skin-Nourishing Herbal Salve: It can be used to soothe insect bites and minor cuts and scrapes. Pour into small tins or glass jars, allow to set and voila! A nice herbal salve to help soothe away irritating skin maladies.

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DIY Lotion Bars: Made with beeswax, Shea butter, Cocoa butter, grapeseed oil, jojoba oil, Vitamin E capsules and assorted essential oils.

Cocoa Scrub Bars: Muffin tins can be used as molds, ingredients include cocoa butter, shea butter, emulsifying wax, beeswax, sunflower oil and more.

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Lavender Salve: Makes an ideal treatment for rough patches on elbows, knees and hands. Ingredients include dried lavender flowers, essential oil, beeswax and olive oil.

Body Butter: Just four simple ingredients are required: shea butter, coconut oil, essential oils (your choice) and almond oil.

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Floral Infused Olive Oil

Did you know olive oil is a lovely (and natural) skin moisturizer? Here’s a way to make it more special…infuse it with flowers picked fresh from your garden!

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Recipe

Ingredients:

Glass jar (pint)
Flower petals (1 1/2 cups)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 3/4 cups)
6 Vitamin E Capsules (400 IU)

Directions:

• Fill a clean jar with your choice of fresh flower petals or buds. Pierce the vitamin capsules and squeeze the oil into the jar on top of the petals.
• Heat olive oil over medium heat then pour over petals. Seal and shake jar gently to mix.
• Place the jar in a sunny location and turn it over daily for 2 weeks.
• After 2 weeks, strain to remove all petals then bottle in a sterilized container.

Tips For Use:

• Use as a bath oil (2 to 3 TBS) or apply on skin after bathing/showering and use as a body moisturizer.
• Apply to dry patches of skin on hands, elbows, knees, feet.
• Can be used as a facial moisturizer, be careful not to get any in your eyes.
• Some believe that eczema, rosesca and stretch marks benefit from applications of olive oil, try a regular treatment to see if it helps.

Flower Choices With Reported Skin Healing & Therapeutic Qualities

• Echinacea, Lavender, Marigolds, Rose Petals, Pansies, Calendula
• Herbs can also be used

Note:

• Do not use petals that have been sprayed with chemicals, they’ll transfer to the oil and then be absorbed by your skin.