How to Make Lotion Bars - 3 Recipes

What's a lotion bar? Lotion bars are lotion in the form of a bar! Lotion bars are easy to make and are easy you use. Simply take the lotion bar and rub in over your skin.

Lotion bars are a great way to pamper yourself and make your skin beautiful. Lotion bars also make great gifts!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Sauce Pan
• Container with a Lid

1. Recipe #1 -Simple Lotion Bars
   
   * 1 Part Oil (Almond, Olive, Sunflower, Baby, Coconut, etc)
   * 1 Part Beeswax
   * 1 Part Cocoa Butter or Shea butter
   
   In a saucepan, melt the oil, beeswax, and butter in a sauce pan until well blended. You can also add some fragrance oil or essential oil at this time.
   
   Poor into a bar form for container. If the bar Lotion Bar becomes too hard you can remelt it and add more oil.

2. Recipe #2 - Beeswax Lotion Bars
   
   This recipe is great for those that don't like Cocoa Butter
   
   * 2 Parts Coconut Oil
   * 1 Part Shea Butter
   * 2 Parts Beeswax
   * 1 1/2 parts Oil (Apricot Kernal, Grape Seed, OR Olive, etc)
   
   Combine all the ingredients into a sauce pan and melt until combined and smooth. At this point you can also stir in a little fragrance or essential oils. Pour into mold or container and let cool off.

3. Recipe #3 - Aloe Vera Lotion Bars
   
   * 6 ounces Cocoa Butter
   * 5 ounces Shea Butter
   * 5 ounces Aloe Vera Gel
   * 1 ounce Oil (Grape Seed, Almond, OR Wheat Germ, etc)
   
   Combine all the ingredients into a sauce pan and melt until combined and smooth. At this point you can also stir in a little fragrance or essential oils. Pour into mold or container and let cool off.

Resources

• Honey Bee Lotion Bars

[jl5080]

on 5/20/2009 This looks like a lot of fun!

[xxspudsmomxx]

on 5/19/2009 Thanks for the tips. I think this would be a much easier way to apply lotion to my dry skin. 5*'s

[Mitestarossa]

on 5/16/2009 Excellent, sounds like a good way to handle lotion.

[hillzbiz]

on 5/8/2009 Well sounds easy to do.