An easy lotion recipe

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This is the simplest, most basic lotion recipe and I love it. A - cause I can do it without messing it up so far B - cause it's a rich lotion that really feels good on your skin. ) I'm gearing up to make some goat's milk lotion with this recipe and some herbal lotions also. I've tried this recipe with grapeseed oil and with just safflower oil - both turned out great. Also with just coconut oil - next time I'll try it with coconut milk in place of the water. The coconut oil is my favorite one so far.

Standard Base Lotion Recipe-

..5 oz. emulsifying wax

2 oz. infused vegetable oil (grapeseed or sweet almond are nice light oils)

..5 oz. vegetable glycerin

4.5 oz. distilled water

20-30 drops essential oils (lavender is very nice, try combining it with peppermint, sandalwood or ylang ylang)

Directions:

Weigh out ingredients......combine the wax, oil and glycerin and heat until melted, don't over heat...let cool to around 110 degrees. Warm the water slightly if not room temperature and slowly pour the water into the cooled oils while blending with a stick blender or whisking like crazy....blend for about 2 minutes, let cool and add your essential oils, whip some more. Let the lotion sit until completely room temperature then blend some more before pouring into containers. If you are pouring into lotion containers, you may want to pour the lotion when it is still slightly warm before it thickens more.

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