How to Make Homemade Body Lotions

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.

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

Instructions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.