Beauty Aids – Skin

After Shave

Ingredients
  • 1 Ounce
    Carrier Oil
  • 1/2 Ounce
    Aloe Vera Gel
  • 1/2 Ounce
    Witch Hazel
  • 1/4 Teaspoon
    Vitamin E Oil
  • 5 Drops
    Grounding Blend
  • 5 Drops
    Eucalyptus

Beach Side Soap

I love the look and feel of this soap.  The base is a Shea Butter Soap with oatmeal added for a gentle exfoliant.  The top layer is a Goat’s Milk Soap.  Both are scented with Brambleberry’s Beach Breezes fragrance.

Ingredients
  • 3/4 Pounds
    Shea Butter Melt and Pour Soap Base
  • 1 Pound
    Goat’s Milk Melt and Pour Soap Base
  • Oatmeal
  • Aqua Pearl Mica and Blue Mica for the soap
  • Beach Breeze Essential Oil Blend

Cool & Refreshing Skin Spray

Feels delightful if kept in the refrigerator but that isn’t necessary!

Keep one in your pool bag, your purse and in your fridge.

Notes: If you don’t use salt, just give a good shake before using!

Ingredients
  • 1 Pinch
    Salt
  • 15 Drops
    Eucalyptus
  • 15 Drops
    Lavender

Creamy Goat’s Milk Soap

This is a creamy medium to soft homemade milk soap with lots of bubble lather and the beautiful aroma of ylang ylang essential oil. This goat milk soap recipe leaves your skin feeling so soft and smooth, it’s a must make for all soap makers.

Ingredients
  • 8 Ounces
    Shortening (vegetable fat)
  • 12 Ounces
    Olive Oil
  • 12 Ounces
    Sunflower Oil
  • 2 Ounces
    Beeswax
  • 10 Ounces
    Goat Milk
  • 4 1/2 Ounces
    Lye (Sodium Hydroxide/Caustic Soda)
  • 15 Milliliters
    Ylang Ylang or Lavender Essential Oil

Cuticle Cream

Cold weather can be tough on skin and cuticles, and can often form dry spots and crack. Making a homemade cuticle cream is a great way to bring moisture and health back to your nails. You can also use this cream on your hands, lips, or anywhere you have dry spots.

Ingredients
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Shea Butter
  • 1 Teaspoon
    Beeswax
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Fractionated Coconut Oil
  • 7 Drops
    Lavender or Myrrh Essential Oil

Detox Lotion

Ingredients
  • 3 Drops
    Clove
  • 3 Drops
    Geranium
  • 3 Drops
    Grapefruit
  • 3 Drops
    Roman Chamomile
  • 3 Drops
    Rosemary

Facial Serum for Aging Skin

Ingredients
  • 12 Drops
    Frankincense
  • 7 Drops
    Lavender
  • 5 Drops
    Patchouli
  • 7 Drops
    Geranium
  • 2 Drops
    Neroli (optional)
  • 2 Drops
    Rose (Optional)
  • 2 Ounces
    Carrier Oil
  • 1/4 Teaspoon
    Vitamin E Oil
  • 1/2 Teaspoon
    Jojoba Oil

Foaming Hand Soap

Ingredients
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Castile Soap
  • 2 Teaspoons
    Coconut Oil
  • 5 Drops
    Tea Tree
  • 10 Drops
    Wild Orange

Hand, Foot, and Nail Cream

This cream will soften and heal the skin along with strengthening the nails on both hand and feet.

This recipe will make 2 jars, I normally double the recipe and give as gifts.

Ingredients
  • 8 Drops
    Melaleuca
  • 8 Drops
    Lavender
  • 8 Drops
    Lemon
  • 6 Drops
    Frankincense
  • 6 Drops
    Myrrh
  • 4 Drops
    Thyme
  • 4 Drops
    Geranium
  • 3 Drops
    Wintergreen
  • 3 Drops
    Peppermint
  • 3 Drops
    Eucalyptus
  • 3 Drops
    Fennel
  • 3 Drops
    Clary Sage
  • 3 Drops
    Clove

Hard Lotion Bar Recipe

Most homemade lotion recipes involve quite a few ingredients, blenders and more mess than I’d prefer to clean up.  In contrast, all you need for these these bars is three ingredients, one pot, and molds – that’s it!

Ingredients
  • part Cocoa Butter or Shea Butter
  • part Oil, such as Coconut Oil or Olive Oil
  • part Beeswax

Homemade Deodorant

This homemade deodorant recipe is amazing! You only need 3 ingredients to make this effective, healthy and cost effective deodorant!

Ingredients
  • 1/2 Cup
    Coconut Oil
  • 1/2 Cup
    Baking Soda
  • 40 - 60 Drops
    Essential Oil

Homemade Sunburn Spray

Ingredients
  • 1/2 Cup
    Aloe Vera Gel
  • 1/8 Cup
    Sea Buckthorn Oil
  • 10 Drops
    Lavender Essential Oil
  • 10 Drops
    Peppermint Oil

Homemade Sunscreen

Ingredients
  • 1 Cup
    Carrier Oil
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Shea Butter
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Zinc Oxide
  • 1 Teaspoon
    Carrot Seed Oil
  • 1 Teaspoon
    Vitamin E Oil
  • 25 Drops
    Essential Oils

Lavender Mint Bath Salts

Nothing says I love you mom on Mother’s Day like a homemade gift of lavender mint scented bath salts …

Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 Cup
    Epson Salt
  • 1/2 Cup
    Baking Soda
  • 5 Drops
    Lavender
  • 3 Drops
    Peppermint

Moisturizing Shower Gel

Ingredients
  • 4 Ounces
    Castile Soap
  • 1 Ounce
    Honey
  • 1 Ounce
    Sweet Almond Oil
  • 20 Drops
    Favorite Essential Oil

Moisturizing Skin Oil

Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 Ounce
    Sweet Almond Oil
  • 1/2 Ounce
    Rosehip Oil
  • 20 Drops
    Favorite Essential Oil

Non-Greasy Lotion

This creamy moisturizer will repair your dry skin after a long winter, but it’s light enough to carry you all the way through a hot summer.

Ingredients
  • 1 Cup
    pure aloe vera gel or distilled water
  • 1/2 Cup
    grated beeswax
  • 1/2 Cup
    sweet almond, grapeseed, or jojoba oil
  • 1 Teaspoon
    Vitamin E oil
  • 15 Drops
    Favorite Combination Essential Oil

Non-Greasy Moisturizing Cream Lotion

If you’re looking for something a bit lighter for the summer months, or just want to drink your coffee without dropping the mug, here is a great non-greasy moisturizing lotionalternative for you! This one’s made with shea butter and almond and jojoba oils, which are much more easily absorbed. And of course, it doesn’t contain anything you can’t pronounce.

Whether they’re dealing with a cold winter or playing in the dirt all day, your hands can take a beating. And while it doesn’t feel (or sound) quite as luxurious as the body butter, this non-greasy moisturizing lotion is easy to whip up and will still leave your hands feeling happy regardless of what they go through!

Ingredients
  • 1/2 Cup
    Shea Butter
  • 2 Tablespoons
    oil (I used 1 Tbsp each of almond oil and jojoba oil)
  • 10 - 15 Drops
    your favorite essential oils (I used lavender and rosemary)

Nourishing Body and Hand Cream

This lotion recipe uses essential oils. While they aren’t necessary, adding them can turn your lotion from being simply moisturizing to something that really addresses what is going on with your skin.

  • Dry or aging skin?  Try rose & geranium
  • Need to be energized and refreshed?  Try lavender, lemon, and grapefruit
  • Troubled skin like psoriasis or eczema?  Try helichrysum, frankincense, lavender, sandalwood, chamomile, rose or jasmine
  • Want to avoid Stretch Marks?  Try helichrysum, lavender, patchouli, neroli, rose, & geranium

 

Ingredients
  • 1/4 Cup
    Coconut Oil
  • 1/8 Cup
    Shea Butter
  • 1/8 Cup
    Cocoa Butter
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Aloe Vera Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon
    liquid oil of choice (like sweet almond, jojoba, etc.)
  • 5 - 10 Drops
    Favorite Combination Essential Oil

Roll-on Deodorant

This DIY roll-on deodorant is easy, fragrant, and fully customizable! You can use any combination of essential oils that you’d like. You can make a male and a female version. This is your chance to get creative and create your own unique and beautiful fragrance!

Lemon essential oil helps with odor-producing bacteria and grapefruit essential oil has cellulite reducing properties.

Ingredients
  • 50 Drops
    Favorite Combination of Essential Oils

Scar Removal Oil

Ingredients
  • 10 Drops
    Helichrysum
  • 8 Drops
    Lemongrass
  • 6 Drops
    Lavender
  • 5 Drops
    Myrrh
  • 4 Drops
    Patchouli

Shaving Cream

Ingredients
  • 1/3 Cup
    Coconut Oil
  • 1/3 Cup
    Shea Butter
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Castile Soap
  • 1/2 Teaspoon
    Vitamin E Oil
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Sweet Almond Oil
  • 5 Drops
    Eucalyptus
  • 5 Drops
    Grounding Blend

Skin Soothing Oil

I love to spray this on my damp skin after my shower, massage it in, and then towel dry.

Ingredients
  • 4 Drops
    Patchouli
  • 10 Drops
    Frankincense
  • 10 Drops
    Geranium
  • 1 Drop
    Clary Sage
  • 11 Drops
    Lavender
  • 3 Drops
    Wild Orange
  • 1 Drop
    Ylang Ylang
  • 9 Drops
    Bergamot
  • 6 Tablespoons
    Almond Oil

Soothing Skin Lotion

This lotion can be used to soothing the itchy, flaky skin that might be associated with dermatitis and other skin disorders.

Ingredients
  • 10 Drops
    Helichrysum
  • 5 Drops
    Lavender
  • 5 Drops
    Bergamot
  • 5 Drops
    Frankincense
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Coconut Lotion

Sunscreen Lotion Bars

Keep in fridge until ready to use. These do melt, so when I take them on the go, I like to put them in a 4 ounce mason jar or ziploc bag.

Ingredients
  • 1/2 Cup
    Coconut Oil
  • 1/2 Cup
    Shea Butter
  • 1/2 Cup
    Beeswax
  • 60 Drops
    Lavender
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Zinc Oxide

Sweet Digestion Belly Butter

Have you ever experienced a tight, uncomfortable belly after eating cold foods (like ice cream) in winter? Cardamom essential oil is so helpful for that . . . and any time you feel bloated because you’ve eaten a bit too much.

In Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit, Gabriel Mojay says Cardamom essential oil is “. . . a general tonic of the body’s vital energy, and its principle use lies in the treatment of digestive complaints . . .”

One of my favorite ways to use it is in a light body butter that you can rub on your belly and low back. Here’s a blend you can use before or after eating (or both!).

Ingredients
  • 3 Ounces
    (84 gm) Babassu oil
  • 1/2 Ounce
    (14 gm) Beeswax
  • 15 Drops
    Cardamom Oil
  • 10 Drops
    Roman Chamomile Oil
  • 16 Drops
    Sweet Orange Oil
  • 12 Drops
    Peppermint Oil

Swelling Lotion

Great for ankle swelling.

Ingredients
  • 6 Drops
    Lemongrass
  • 6 Drops
    Cypress
  • 6 Drops
    Grapefruit
  • 4 Drops
    Lavender

Ultra-Moisture Lotion

This recipe is used as a lotion. In the container, the final product feels more like a thick body butter versus a pump lotion. Once spread on the skin it acts as an amazing moisturizing lotion.

Ingredients
  • 4 Ounces
    Shea Butter
  • 2 Tablespoons
    skin-nourishing oil
  • 10 - 20 Drops
    Lavender Essential Oil
  • 5 Drops
    Rosemary
  • 3 Drops
    Carrot Seed Oil
  • 3 Drops
    Tea Tree Oil

Vanilla Healthy Lotion

Ingredients
  • 1/4 Cup
    apricot seed oil, castor oil, jojoba, grapeseed or olive oil
  • 2 Tablespoons
    Coconut Oil
  • 1 Ounce
    grated beeswax
  • 2 Teaspoons
    Shea Butter
  • 1 Teaspoon
    Vanilla Extract

Working Hands Salve

Ingredients
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Coconut Oil
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Sweet Almond Oil
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Hemp Oil
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Mango Butter
  • 1 1/2 Tablespoon
    Beeswax
  • 10 Drops
    Lavender
  • 5 Drops
    Peppermint
  • 5 Drops
    Eucalyptus
  • 5 Drops
    Fennel
  • 5 Drops
    Clary Sage