Today I have a great recipe for you, it follows along the same lines as the ever-so-popular All-Natural Gripe Water I posted about back in November 2013. It's homemade, completely natural (even organic, if you use the right ingredients!), and oh-so yummy (but don't actually eat it. It just smells yummy). This stuff is fantastic. Not only is it great as a diaper cream - I've been told it's completely cloth-diaper safe - it also works amazingly as a lotion, sunburn treatment (note: not a sunscreen, but it will help heal burned skin), eczema lotion, massage cream, whatever floats your boat!
This recipe is not original, though I did make my own modifications to it while I was making my batch.
I actually received a sample of this cream from a friend while I was pregnant with Monkey and I loved it so much I begged her for the recipe! The original recipe can be found on her blog, Beards, Braids, and Babes, but I will be posting a copy (with a couple differences) below!
I also apologize because I don't have step-by-step picture instructions with this one. I made this batch back in July, and I made enough to last a couple years so I probably won't be making it again any time soon. Here's the recipe, I even added a pretty orange picture for your delight and because it's officially the first day of autumn!
Ingredients:
1/2 ounce beeswax
3 1/2 ounces coconut oil (if yours is solid at room temperature, warm before measuring & adding to batch. It's easier, trust me!)
2-3 ounces olive oil, as desired for consistency (I added about 2 oz)
1-5 drops tea tree essential oil
2-4 drops lavender essential oil
* 1 tablespoon = 1/2 ounce
Instructions:
Fill a pot halfway with water and bring to a boil. Turn down heat to a simmer. Place a tightly fitting bowl (I prefer glass) over the pot of simmering water.
Place beeswax in bowl and melt, stirring constantly. Once melted, slowly add in coconut oil and stir until melted. The beeswax may harden when the cooler coconut oil is added, just keep stirring to melt. Add olive oil to beeswax-coconut oil mixture.
Once the oil mixture is melted, remove from heat and add essential oils as desired. Let cool completely and test consistency**. If it's too thick, melt over simmering water again and add more olive oil.
**Because I'm impatient, I took a tablespoon or so out of the batch and cooled in a separate container to test consistency. That way I didn't have to wait a couple hours for the entire batch to cool before checking consistency, and I didn't have to re-melt the entire batch to transfer it to my other container(s).
***I've been asked a few times where I got my beeswax. I got mine at Whole Foods, where it can be found by the ounce, but I have also seen it in bars, beads, and cakes at Natural Grocers and a few independent natural foods stores. It can also be found in varying quantities on Amazon and from many other online retailers. It's not terribly expensive (I think I got mine for $2.50 an ounce of pure organic), so shop around!
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| This is mine, as you can see it's not pretty and has been used a lot! I like it to be pasty so I can scoop it out of a container. Adding more olive oil will make it thinner so you can put it in a squeezable bottle, if you so desire. I doubled the recipe above and it was enough to fill my 2 cup (470 mL) Pyrex container. |
