I’ve been experimenting with different lotion recipes to enhance our product selection at www.littledrippers.com . This led me to hundreds of different sites that claimed to have all-natural lotion recipes. A few looked interesting and I gave some of them a try. My conclusion was that most of these sites must not actually make the recipes they provide. Many of them were trying to mix water soluble products with wax and oil. Let’s get one thing perfectly straight, that doesn’t work.
I don’t care how fast you stir or how late in the process you stir it just doesn’t work. Sure you can use a suspension base or something else to help slow the separation but bottom line you really need to use an emulsifier to make it really work.
For those who like to keep things simple and natural the simplest and most natural emulsifier I know of is Borax. A little Borax with beeswax creates a simple emulsifier that allows you to add water or honey to a beeswax and oil/butter base. There is a lot of information on the web about this already so I won’t go into more details.
Personally, I prefer to not mix water based ingredients in my lotions. It creates a shortened shelf life and introduces the possibility for bacteria to grow. Why not just keep things in their natural state? I simply remind my customers to use a little at a time. You would be surprised how far an all natural lotion bar goes in comparison to a bottle of store bought lotion. And the lotion bar or all natural stuff works much better. If you are interested in a couple of lotion recipes that work and are produced and sold across the country we have them listed on our web page www.littledrippers.com under the recipes page. Let us know if you have other recipes we can try and post as well.
