Lotion Bars

I've been wanting to try making my own bath and body products for awhile. I finally got around to ordering some shea butter from Amazon and immediately set out to try some recipes from Pinterest! 

 I purchased the coconut oil from Costco (GREAT deal!) and the beeswax from Craft Warehouse. 

I had to grate the beeswax...

 

My cheesegrater and I never get along. It's a love-hate thing.

I melted the oil, wax, and butter in a mason jar, then added Young Living Lavender essential oil after.

Using my handy silicon cupcake molds, we made some pretty cute flowery lotion bars!  I did learn that one MUST put the mold on the cookie sheet BEFORE pouring if one wants to be able to move the bars somewhere *safe* to cool.  Just sayin'- so you can learn from my mistakes :-)

 

Of course, the kidlings couldn't keep their hands off the cooling bars, so I ended up melting them down again and re-pouring.  Nobody wants lotion bars with fingerprints in them!  It's like the traditional fingerprints in every wedding cake! 

 

Lotion Bar Recipe:

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/4 cup shea butter

2/3 cup grated beeswax or pastilles

approx 20 drops essential oil (optional)

 

Coming soon... Homemade vaporub!  And just a note, I think I will add more beeswax next time... these are a little soft for little hands to use (or adult hands who don't pay attention to what they are doing... like me!)