How Do You Make Homemade Lotion? Easy Homemade Lotion Recipe + October Simply Earth Box

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Wondering how do you make homeade lotion? I’ve got a super easy homeade lotion recipe for you as well as a review of the October Simply Earth box!

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We go through a LOT of lotion in our household. Like so much that I’m sick of running out and buying it, when like so many other things, I know I can make it myself. It’s just so much better for our families whenever we make as many products that we can ourselves because it enables us to control the ingredients going into them.

So I’ve found myself asking: how do you make homemade lotion?

The answer is that it is so much easier than you could ever imagine.

I’m going to share this easy homemade lotion recipe with you all today that was seriously so easy that Blake was able to make it with me. Below, I outline everything that you need to make the homemade lotion recipe, however, if you purchase the October Simply Earth Box, you will find everything inside waiting for you.

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October Simply Earth Box

Let’s chat Simply Earth first. Simply Earth offers a monthly essential oil subscription box, however, you can buy single oils and don’t have to commit to the box if you don’t want to. But if you do, and you use my link here, you will get a FREE Bonus Box with all the bottles, carrier oils, and containers you need to make recipes + a $40 gift card toward anything in their store. It’s a huge savings! (Check out THIS POST to see what comes in the Bonus Box.)

In the October Simply Earth Box You Will Find:

Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Breathe Easy Essential Oil
Mandarian Essential Oil
Autumn Air Essential Oil
Emulsifying Wax
Vegetable Glycerin
Spray Bottle

Click Here to get a $40 Gift Card with your Simply Earth October box purchase + a FREE Bonus BOX!!

How Do You Make Homemade Lotion?

I wish that I knew in the past how easy it really is to make homemade lotion because I would seriously be quadrupling this recipe and making sure that every bathroom was filled with bottles of it years ago!

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It does take about 20 minutes to make this recipe and you will need to do it on a stovetop so if you have little hands helping, make sure you take all the necessary precautions. And the shelf life of this recipe is about 6 weeks, but if your family is anything like mine, it won’t last long!

Easy Homemade Lotion Recipe

Ok, here we go!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup distilled water
1/2 tsp vegetable glycerin
2 tsp coconut oil (solid)
2 tsp emulsifying wax
1/4 tsp beeswax
1 tbsp almond oil
4 drops Eucalyptus Essential Oil
7 drops Mandarin Essential Oil
Small blender
Food thermometer
small sealable container

How to make the homemade lotion recipe

Step one: Use a double boiler and stir the distilled water with the vegetable glycerine.

Step two: In a separate double boiler add the almond oil, coconut oil, beeswax, and emulsifying wax.

Step three: Heat the mixtures to 150 degrees Fahrenheit at the same time. This is important because the emulsion will not happen if the mixture is not at the correct temperature. Take them off the heat once they reach the temperature.

Step four: Pour the water mixture into a blender. Turn on the blender so that a vortex forms. Slowly add wax mixture and blend for 5 to seven minutes until you can see it is thoroughly blended.

Step five: Allow to cool and then add in the essential oils.

Step six: Pour your lotion into a sealable container and label it.

To use the easy lotion recipe: Apply to hands, feet, or body. To use as a moisturizing mask, wrap a warm, wet towel around the area you apply it to.