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Anyone have a recipe that's good for lotion? I don't want a salve or a wax or anything oily like that. I'm looking for a light, creamy and smooth lotion recipe.

oh, that sounds nice... I used to put oatmeal in a muslin bag and drop it in my bath.

^^ I'm asking about the lotion 'cause salves are too thick for use as massage stuff, and oils are messy and ... well, oily. And I ran out of my fave lotion,a nd I need a base to add nice oils to.

I found this on a website that I googled.

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Basic Lotion Recipe

First of all, you may want to select containers with colored caps that remind you of the scent you made. Wal-Mart carries empty Pet Bottle with different colored caps in their beauty and travel section. So, I would pick a clear bottle with a purple cap for lavender, as one example.

Heat up 3/4 Cup of Oil of Your Choice in the microwave with 2 teaspoons of Steric Acid and 1 teaspoon of Emulsifying Wax until melted. In a separate plastic bowl with a pour mouth preferably, heat up 1/2 cup of water of your choice (such as rainwater) in the microwave with a 1/2 teaspoon of Borax (the Mule Team stuff) until boiling hot.

Then use the same plastic pour mouth bowl you boiled the water in and slowly whip in the oil mixture with a hand blender. Keep mixing until fairly cool. At this time, you can add vitamin e oil, a little color, fragrance, whatever you consider great stuff! When the lotion seems well mixed, funnel into pretty plastic lotion bottles. If you are going to take longer than a month to use this, I recommend putting a touch of Germaben II to body products; they will tend to form black little microbes after a few months. Vitamin e is a natural preservative and may help.

Variations:

Once you get the chemistry down, the interplay is wide open. You can use green tea instead of water or rainwater, or water infused with whatever herb you like. On the oil side, you can soak the oils in elements such as we do with bee pollen, strain and then use for the oil part. The possibilities are endless and these variations also apply to Cremes below. For those with Eczema or Psoriasis, adding 10% of pine tar at the mixing stage may help them tremendously. In that case, I would use Castor oil as my oil of choice. You can offset the smell of pine tar with cinnamon or nutmeg.

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Now, I don't personally know of anywhere that you can get straight Steric Acid, but I did find a supply website that has something that can be substitued for the Steric acid and borax mixture, and just baout everything else that this recipoe calls for.

Supplies

I hope that this works for you, Kyoki.

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