Who wants smooth, young skin? It seems that you can have it and still age gracefully. Do you still want to pay attention?
This homemade lotion has the ability to not only turn back the hands of time on your face but also treat eczema and prevent stretch marks.
BREAKDOWN OF BENEFITS OF LOTION
Coconut oil helps strengthen your skin, deep within the underlying tissue and is a natural moisturizer. It is also a powerful antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial agent, which helps keep your skin healthy and youthful.
Shea butter is kind of a skin health rockstar. It smooths out blemishes and wrinkles like hot iron. It also relieves itching, sunburns, scratches, allergies, eczema, and insect bites.
Jojoba oil acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and soothes the skin and is also known for treating acne.
Vitamin E specializes in keeping us young looking. It does this by blocking free radicals, which play a major role in the aging process.
Beeswax seals in moisture and also has anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antibacterial properties.
HOMEMADE COCONUT OIL LOTION RECIPE
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup organic extra-virgin coconut oil
- 1/2 cup organic jojoba oil
- 2 tablespoon shea butter
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
- 1/4 cup beeswax
Directions:
- Put a glass bowl on top of a pan on the stove and add some water to the pan.
- Add of all of the ingredients, except the vitamin E, in a glass bowl.
- Turn the stove top on to med-high heat to get the water hot enough to melt the ingredients.
- As the ingredients melt, mix everything together and once melted, add vitamin E oil.
- Make sure you keep stirring throughout the process.
- Once it’s a liquid, pour into a mason jar for storage/use later.
There are a lot of articles including baking soda as an ingredient for skin remedies. We suggest that you avoid using baking soda on your skin. This can be a very bad idea for some more than others, but nonetheless. If you have sensitive skin, you’re likely to find alkaline substances like baking soda irritating.
