How to Make Homemade Body Lotions

By eHow Fashion, Style & Personal Care Editor

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You don't have to be a chemist to begin experimenting with creating personal care products in your home. Get started making homemade body lotion today with a few simple ingredients. Be creative, but most of all make a lotion you'll love. Just be prepared to make more when all your friends smell your new creation.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • 1 tsp. borax
  • 1 cup rose water
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • Lavender flowers
  • Medium mixing bowl
  • Small microwave safe bowl
  • Hand mixer or whisk
  • Strainer

Step1
Make basic homemade lotion. Mix borax and water in a medium bowl. Use a whisk or hand mixer. Warm the olive oil in a small bowl in the microwave. Using a hand mixer slowly add warmed olive oil. Mix until all ingredients are added and an emulsion forms.
Step2
Make lavender water. Infuse two handfuls of lavender flowers into 2 cups boiling water. Stir flowers in water for 15 minutes. Pour water through a strainer to remove flowers.
Step3
Add lavender water to the emulsified lotion mixture. Mix and let stand for about 1 hour. Strain the mixture and put into a container for future use.
Step4
Pick a different scent. Consider using rose petals, orange peels, cinnamon sticks, sage, rosemary, geranium, juniper or any other scent. Just infuse the same way you did with the lavender flowers.

Tips & Warnings

  • Start with a few basic ingredients to make a basic lotion and experiment by adding other scents.
  • Mixing lotions is a chemistry experiment. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Be willing to experiment to make a lotion you'll love.

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