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Why spend cash on a store-bought moisturizer when you can create your own homemade hand lotion at home? Read our homemade hand lotion recipes to learn more
Best Homemade Hand Lotion Recipes
It’s really not as difficult as you may think it is. You probably already have most of the ingredients you’ll need for the mixtures and the process of mixing them is as absolutely simple as can be.
If you are tired of wasting so much money at the health and beauty store on products that claim to be the best but only succeed in draining your savings, try making homemade hand lotion products for a change.
How to Make Lotions: What You Need
As mentioned above, you probably already have most of the ingredients you’ll need to create your own homemade hand lotion.
Some of the ingredients you may discover you already have include:
- Olive Oil
- Sesame Oil
- Baking Soda
- Petroleum Jelly
- Orange Juice
- Tea
And while you may not have the other ingredients you’ll need (like essential oils, beeswax, or cocoa butter), they can all be found very easily.
So, there really should be nothing stopping you from making homemade hand lotion except your own laziness.
Get up! Get moving! And save money!
Homemade Hand Lotion Recipes
The Budget Beauty- This one can be made for under $6 (and it makes a lot of product), with all of its ingredients coming from your local dollar store. The results are fantastic and your wallet won’t feel the pinch it sometimes can when you set out to make your own homemade hand lotion products.
Ingredients:
- Petroleum Jelly – 1 jar
- Aloe Vera Lotion – 1 bottle
- Pink Baby Lotion – 2 bottles
- Vitamin E Cream – 2 bottles
Directions:
Simply mix with water and there you have a large reserve of wonderful, hand lotion made at-home.
Citrus Butter Lotion- This is a great homemade cream with a wonderfully delicious smell. It’s also super simple to make!
Ingredients:
- Cocoa butter – ½ ounce (melted)
- Olive oil -1 ounce (warmed)
- Orange juice – 1 ounce
- Orange Flower essential oil – 2 drops
Directions:
Blend all the ingredients together until the mixture becomes light and fluffy. This lotion doesn’t have to be refrigerated, but it does need to be used as soon as possible before the combination of materials begins to separate.
The Bees’ Knees- This mixture uses beeswax for a deeply satisfying and hydrating experience. The ingredients are a little more difficult to get a hold of than the ones for the previous recipes, but this homemade hand lotion is a miracle worker and certainly worth the extra effort.
Ingredients:
- Beeswax – 3 tablespoons (grated)
- Liquid Lanolin – 1 tablespoon
- Light sesame oil – ½ cup
- Chamomile tea – 2 tablespoons
- Coconut oil – 1 tablespoon
- Honey – 1 teaspoon
- Baking Soda – 1/8 teaspoon
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and heat in the microwave until the wax and oils have melted. Remove the mixture from the heat before it begins to boil. Allow the lotion to cool completely before use.
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