Homemade Body Lotion

Do you want to keep your skin healthy and beautiful without going to beauty salon? Then it’s high time to make your own homemade body lotions and shun dependence on beauticians. Preparation of homemade body lotion is quite simple and its regular application on the skin maintains its vitality. But before preparing few verities of body lotion, first ensure that the ingredients you have selected are suitable for your skin. Avoid using those ingredients which may cause allergy to your skin.

Here are few recipes to prepare homemade body lotions:

1. Rose and Lime Body Lotion

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons rose water

1 tablespoon glycerin

2 tablespoons lime juice

Method: Mix all the ingredients together and use it after taking bath if you have a dry skin. The proportions of the ingredients could be changed according to the type of skin. The lotion should be kept in cool place.

2. Cinnamon body lotion

Ingredients:

62 grams coconut oil

56 grams sweet almond oil

20 grams extra virgin olive oil

4 grams cocoa butter

4 grams shear butter

1/2 teaspoon stearic acid

6 grams beeswax

98 grams distilled water

16 grams vegetable glycerin

1/2 teaspoon borax

1 teaspoon cinnamon leaf essential oil

1 teaspoon peppermint essential oil

Method: Mix the coconut oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, shear butter, stearic acid and beeswax in a large heat proof glass measuring cup. Put the mixture in a hot water bath until the waxes are completely melted. Then take a separate Pyrex cup and mix the water, glycerin and borax in it. Put the mixture in a bath for 10 minutes and dissolve the borax by continuously stirring it. Blend both the oil and water mixtures in an electric mixer till the Cinnamon lotion becomes thick and rich. Add essential oil to the lotion and stir it again. Store the lotion in a bottle and use regularly.

3. Blue Satin Body Lotion

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons water

3 tablespoons soap flakes

1 teaspoon glycerin

1 teaspoon witch-hazel

4 teaspoons olive oil

A few drops of blue coloring and perfume

Method: Take soap-flakes and put it in saucepan containing water. Heat it till the soapflakes dissolve. Then add glycerin, olive oil and witch-hazel to the dissolved soap-flakes and stir until it cools. Finally, add the blue coloring and some perfume to the mixture. Use this body lotion after bath on your skin.

4. Jasmine lotion

Ingredients:

1/4 cup apricot kernel oil

1 tsp. beeswax

1 tsp. cocoa butter

1 tsp. coconut oil

1/4 cup distilled water

1 tsp. aloe vera gel

1/2 tsp. glycerin

5 drops jasmine fragrance oil

Method: Take cocoa butter and melt it. Blend the oils with the cocoa butter over low heat followed by cooling. Then take a bowl and put water, aloe vera gel, and glycerin into it. Now gradually drizzle in a small amount of the oil mixture in the bowl and beat with a wirewhisk until all the oil is blended into the water. Then stir in five drops of jasmine fragrance and then store the lotion in a bottle.

5. Lavender Body Lotion

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon borax

1 cup rose water

2 tablespoons olive oil

A handful of lavender flowers

Method: First dissolve the borax in rose water and then gradually add warmed olive oil, beating constantly till the mixture converts into an emulsion. Then infuse a handful of lavender flowers in 2 cups of boiling water. Pour this lavender water into the emulsion and leave it for an hour. Then strain it and use.

6. Almond Body Lotion

Ingredients:

3 teaspoons lanolin

1 teaspoon almond oil

1 teaspoon petroleum jelly

1 teaspoon vegetable lard

2 teaspoons glycerin

10 tablespoons water

1 teaspoon soap flakes

1 teaspoon cornflower

Perfume or almond essence

Method: Mix separately heated oils and water and pour it in a bottle. Shake the mixture vigorously and then add perfume to the lotion.