Cathy's Oil Experience

Body

Homemade Face Wash

This homemade face wash recipe will leave your skin feeling refreshed, hydrated and clean. The essential oils and coconut oil work to kill any bacteria while providing nutrients and hydration to your skin to keep it looking and feeling young and vibrant! It’s one of my all-time favorite recipes!

Ingredients
  • 1 Cup
    Coconut Oil
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Baking Soda
  • 5 Drops
    each Lavender, Frankincense, and Lemon

Homemade Ylang Ylang, Frankincense, and Myrrh Body Lotion Recipe

This homemade body lotion recipe brings hydration and essential vitamins and nutrients to the skin. In addition, the essential oils tone, lift, heal and protect the skin.

Ingredients
  • 1/4 Cup
    olive oil
  • 1/4 Cup
    coconut oil
  • 1/4 Cup
    beeswax
  • 1/4 Cup
    shea butter
  • 2 Tablespoons
    vitamin E oil
  • 10 Drops
    frankincense essential oil
  • 20 Drops
    myrrh oil
  • 10 Drops
    ylang ylang essential oil

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

Natural Hand Scrub

This recipe is for those of you who need a really good cleaning scrub for your hands. Maybe you’re a gardener, or perhaps you work with clay. This recipe is hands-down one of my favorites anytime I need a good hand scrub! Plus, it nourishes skin, so it won’t dry your hands out if you use it on a regular basis.

Ingredients
  • 1.5 Ounce
    pink Himalayan salt
  • 1 Ounce
    coconut oil
  • 1 Ounce
    jojoba oil
  • 25 Drops
    Lavender
  • 15 Drops
    Lemon

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

Romantic Bath Salts

For the Valentine’s Day gift or Wedding Day gift, here is the easiest DIY…

The Ylang Ylang and Idaho Blue Spruce together smell AMAZING. Seriously! So good

Ingredients
  • 1/2 Cup
    Epson Salt
  • 2 Drops
    Ylang Ylang Oil
  • 2 Drops
    Idaho Blue Spruce Oil