Even though butters are so good for our skin, and provide excellent moisturising properties; I personally find straight body butters a little on the heavy and greasy side. That’s why lotions are so great! You get the moisturising benefits of oils and butters, but adding water cuts down the greasy feeling.
Very Basic Lotion
(makes 100 grams)
Oil Phase
20 grams of oil (sunflower, soya, apricot kernel, rice bran are all good oils to use)
5 grams of emulsifying wax
Water Phase
75 grams of water
Cool down Phase
Fragrance
Preservative
- Measure your oil phase ingredients into a heat safe container.
- Measure your water phase ingredients into a separate heat safe container.
- Heat both containers until they reach 70 degrees Celsius and hold for 20 minutes. This ensures any bacteria is heated out of your mixture.
- Pour your oil phase into your water phase ingredients and mix with a hand blender for 3 or 4 minutes. Your oil and water will now emulsify together.
- Leave to cool until 45 degrees. You can keep mixing during this stage if you like.
- When the temperature reaches 45 degrees add your cool down phase ingredients.
- Pour into your bottles, but wait until completely cooled until you put the lid on your jar as you don’t want condensation to drip back into your lotion.
- Enjoy!
If you would like to learn more about lotion making I thoroughly recommend checking out Susan’s blog at http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.co.nz/
Download her lotion making tutorial at this link for more advanced recipes https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1020026/introductiontolotionmakingthingie.pdf
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