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| Does anyone know of a good unscented lotion to make your own lotion using essential oils?
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Expert Yogi
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Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | I make a sloughing/foot scrub using Jojoba Oil, Peppermint and Sea Salt. As for lotions, I buy them pre-made, however, you could take just about any unscented lotion and add a few drops of the EO to get the desired fragrance with no problems. You may want to play around with it as the EO will alter how the lotion feels on your skin. I like Better Botanicals lotion. I can't see why you can't take their Kokum Butter and add an EO or two to it. It already smells nice to me. My favorite lotion is Williams-Sonoma's Lavender, while I use EO's Lavender Soap in my bathroom. In my kitchen I like Persian Lime for hand/lotion soap. Unfortunately they discontinued and altered their soap/lotion lines I wasn't real happy with some of them. But overall, Williams Sonoma has a great line of lotions and soaps which I don't have to fool with. Whole Foods and Earthfare's carry some good brands too. Do a recipe search on google, I bet you find all kinds of lotion recipes using Essential Oils. Once my daughter had head lice. I used this great recipe using Cinnamon Oil and Tea Tree Oil mixed with Olive Oil. Worked better than the crap in the drugstore and was user friendlier. Good luck with it. | |
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| tHANK YOU Cyndi
I was thinking on making them for christmas...
I'll check out those sites  | |
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Expert Yogi
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Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | Here's a basic recipe that I have. For a full body application, take 15 to 20 drops of pure EO to each 1 ounce of unscented (vegetable source) base lotion.
This thread made me think about what I would do for gifts if it were me. I would go and buy the lotion in a large bottle, remove all stickers. Then I would provide several EO's that would compliment each other and provide recipes to go along with it. I would provide say a recipe for dry skin, oily skin and sensitive skin. If I knew what that person liked or needed I would eliminate a certain type that I knew they would not need. You can also make your own stickers for the lotion bottle with all the directions too. If you go to an aromatherapy store, usually they can make up combinations for you, or bottles of the EO...otherwise, Aura Cacia has a nice line of blends, which is what I used mostly cause it's easy to get and you can order off their website - they also provide bottles too! Here's their site url:
http://www.frontiercoop.com/shop/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ac | |
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unscented lotion for aromather