These beeswax Lotion Bars are easy to make and smell amazing! They make your hands feel great without being greasy.
I had found a recipe for homemade lotion bars a while back and made a batch. Unfortunately, they made my hands feel greasy and they took a while to absorb. I think it was the coconut oil. Since then, I’ve been searching for lotion Bar recipes without coconut oil, to no avail!
I first tried using lotion bars last summer. I bought a cute bar that came in its own tin in a yarn shop in Alberta. Those lotion bars were smooth and creamy, and they nicely moisturized my hands for knitting. Surprisingly, they only had two ingredients: soy wax and shea butter. I used that as a starting point for these lotion bars, which use beeswax. Beeswax is very hard, so these bars will keep their shape and not get soft at room temperature. To use, just gently rub them in your hands; your body heat will start to melt them and leave a light coating on your hands.
I like to use shea butter instead of coconut oil because it’s rich and creamy without being greasy. I keep a little dish with a lotion bar on it on a table next to my knitting chair. That way, I can moisturize whenever I need to! I haven’t found that residue from my hands affects the yarn in any way. If anything, it might moisturize my wool yarns!
As I used the golden, unrefined beeswax, my lotion bars have a beautiful honey colour and delicious scent. However, if you prefer plain, just use the white refined beeswax. We get most of our supplies from New Directions Aromatics in Mississauga, but I’ve also used shea butter from hair supply stores and that works great too!
This recipe makes nine bars, each about two tablespoons. Feel free to make larger ones if you have larger moulds. I also listed the ingredient quantities in grams because I had a hard time measuring volumes of soft shea butter and hard chunks of beeswax in my measuring cups. The weight measurements will give you more accurate quantities and more consistent results.
Beeswax Lotion Bars
Equipment
- double boiler
Ingredients
- 150 grams beeswax
- 100 grams shea butter
Instructions
- If the beeswax is in a block, grate it or chop it into small pieces.
- Place the beeswax and shea butter in the top of a double boiler. Heat over simmering water until melted. Mix with a spoon to blend them, being careful not to burn yourself.
- Carefully pour the melted mixture into moulds. Let sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes or until they are cool and set.
- Pop the lotion bars out of the moulds and put in a pretty package!
Check out our other home spa recipes:
- Orange and Brown Sugar Lip Scrub
- Winter Body Balm
- Lanolin Body Balm
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