How To Make Lotion Bars With Shea Butter

Shea butter and coconut oil are the main ingredients in this recipe.

How to make lotion bars with shea butter.

Shea butter lotion bar stick ingredients. You can chill the bars in the. While melting lay out the molds and prepare freezer space for the molds. I just used a large glass bowl sitting on top of.

Combine beeswax shea butter jojoba sweet almond and coconut oil in a heavy duty sauce pan or double boiler set up gently heat until it s all melted remove from the heat and let cool until it s no longer too hot to touch mix in essential oil pour into mold i used silicon ice. Allow to cool completely before removing from molds. Add any essential oils and stir with a wooden skewer to distribute evenly. Make sure you have the molds ready with the ingredients you want to use.

Now when it comes to coconut oil it has anti bacterial anti fungal and moisturizing properties. Instructions place butter oil and wax in a heavy bottom pot or double boiler. Here is another homemade shea butter lotion that you can make in a jiffy. Add cornstarch and keep stirring until it is completely dissolved.

How to make your own shea butter lotion bars in a double boiler melt shea butter and beeswax over medium low heat. Heat gently stirring regularly until ingredients are melted. A lotion bar is a moisturizer that is solid at room temperature nut melts when you hold it in your hand before rubbing it on your body. Place beeswax shea butter coconut oil and cocoa butter in a water bath over low heat.

Lotion bars can be made with shea butter cocoa butter beeswax and countless other things but i opted for shea butter. Place all ingredients in a double boiler and warm until melted. Once they are melted add the oils. Once melted remove from heat and let to cool for a few minutes.

When shea butter and beeswax are nearly melted add coconut oil which will melt very quickly.