Learn how to create your own DIY body butters, creams and lotions for a luxurious experience and great looking skin.
Jun 05, 2018
Treat your skin to this DIY deep body cream recipe featuring Aura Cacia Comfort Essential Oil Blend.
Nov 27, 2017
A gentle DIY hand cream recipe made with beeswax, sweet almond oil, lemon essential oil and lavender essential oil.
Jun 04, 2018
A homemade, nourishing lotion bar, featuring a rich combination of lavender, vanilla and avocado oils.
This selection of oils runs the gamut of scents from fresh herbal, to floral, to rich, suave base notes. All these oils are mild and gentle so they are appropriate for daily and repeated application in a DIY body butter, cream or lotion.
Essential Oil | Character | Uses |
---|---|---|
Helichrysum | Herbal, fresh, honey and beeswax-like. | Balancing and protecting. A less floral-sweet alternative to lavender with all the same benefits. |
Jasmine Absolute | Rich, radiant, exotic floral. | Soothing, calming, and balancing. Lends a perfume-like quality to long-lasting body butters. |
Lavender | Floral, herbal. | Soothing, calming, balancing and nourishing. Mild benefits appropriate for repeated application in lotions. |
Neroli | Suave, fresh, floral. | Soothing, calming, balancing and nourishing. Great for all skin types and conditions. |
Patchouli | Rich, earthy, herbal. | Balancing for all skin types. It’s rich, unusual scent can be modified by blending with rose, jasmine or lavender. |
Rose Absolute & Rose Otto | Rich, radiant, floral. | Soothing, calming, balancing and nourishing. A supremely nurturing oil appropriate for daily application in lotions, creams and butters. |
Sandalwood | Balsamic, woody, rich. | Protective nourishment in all butter, cream and lotion applications. |
Ylang Ylang | Rich, radiant, exotic, floral. | Calming, and nourishing. Gentle addition to lotions for daily applications or in butters for intensive occasional use. |
Vanilla | Deep, rich, tenaciously sweet. | Calming, soothing and nourishing adds a universally appreciated scent to lotions, creams and butters. |
2 Comments
lifeofthepardee
November 27, 2018 - 6:27am
Thanks for the list of best oils to use!
Marcia N
June 12, 2018 - 6:25am
Sounds yummy, can’t wait to call a few friends and get busy making some!
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