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    Lotion Stick Dry Skin Treatment

    Craft Tutorials, Crafting, Holiday & Seasonal Crafts, Homemade Beauty, Winter Crafts

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It’s an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches.

    Winter weather can be tough on the skin. Lower humidity levels, cold temperatures outside and dry air inside can leach out moisture and leave skin chapped, dry, cracked, itchy and painful.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    We definitely struggle with it in our family. My son’s hands, especially his knuckles, get really dry and painful. My husband has one spot on his legs that is always dry, while the skin on my feet and legs is always moisture-starved in the winter.

    I made this all-natural lotion stick to help heal and soothe our parched winter skin. It contains a mix of nourishing and moisturizing argan and coconut oils, shea butter and four therapeutic essential oils — lavender essential oil, frankincense essential oil, neroli essential oil and palmarosa essential oil.

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    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

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    The handy push-up tubes make the dry skin treatment portable and easy to apply without getting your hands greasy — things you can’t do with traditional lotion bars. You could also make this dry skin treatment in regular or mini deodorant containers.

    Here’s what you need to make these lotion sticks:

    Dry Skin Treatment Ingredients

    • 2 ounces beeswax
    • 4 ounces shea butter
    • 2 ounces coconut oil
    • 2 ounces Argan oil
    • 25 drops lavender essential oil
    • 25 drops frankincense essential oil
    • 15 drops neroli essential oil
    • 15 drops palmarosa essential oil
      3 mini scoops (approximately 1/3 teaspoon) cellini blue mica (optional)
    • 10 1-ounce pushup tubes or 20 mini deodorant containers
    • small glass measuring cup
    • digital scale

    Dry Skin Treatment Tutorial

    Use a digital scale to measure out ingredients.

    Combine the beeswax and shea butter in a medium-sized glass measuring cup or bowl. Heat over a double boiler on in the microwave, using 30 second bursts, until the beeswax and shea butter are completely melted.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    Once completely melted and blending, add argan oil and coconut oil. Stir to blend, making sure the coconut oil is completely liquified.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    Here’s a neat trick for testing the final hardness and consistency of your lotion sticks. Place a spoon in the freezer an hour ahead of time. Once you’ve blended the carrier oils, beeswax and shea butter, dip the frozen spoon into the mixture. It will solidify. If you prefer a harder lotion stick, add more beeswax. For a softer lotion stick, add more coconut oil or argan oil.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    If you like, you can add cellini blue mica to the mixture to tint your lotion bars. This small amount of colorant will not transfer to your skin when you use the lotion bars.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    Stir well to disperse the color throughout the oil and butter mixture. The shea butter I used was very yellow in color, so my lotion bars turned out more green than blue. Your results will vary depending on the color of the shea butter you use. (You can use the frozen spoon trick again to test the color of your mixture.)

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    Finally, add the essential oils to the mixture. Stir to combine and incorporate. Then pour into push-up tubes or deodorant containers.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    Allow to cool and harden for several hours before moving the lotion sticks or capping them.

    In our family, we’ve had the (mis)fortune to test these lotion sticks out a lot this winter. And we love them!

    I was sick with what I’m calling “the crud” for about two weeks, and my nose got painfully raw from blowing it. To heal the chapped skin, I rubbed this dry skin treatment on the tip of my nose and the raw area above my lip. It worked wonders, not just in moisturizing my chapped skin but in providing soothing relief.

    My husband has been applying this balm daily to the dry patch on his leg, and it’s really made a difference. In fact, he’s almost used an entire tube! My son is also using it on his dry hands with good results.

    This handy lotion stick winter skin balm is made with moisturizing and healing oils, essential oils and shea butter. It's an excellent dry skin treatment for chapped, cracked, flaky and itchy patches. Contains lavender essential oil, Argan oil, Palmarosa essential oil and other all-natural healing and moisturizing ingredients.

    If your skin could use a little extra TLC this winter, I definitely encourage you to try this recipe. I find that a balm works so much better than lotion for seriously dry skin.

    Here are a few other homemade bath, body and beauty products you might enjoy making:

    This homemade hand salve is an excellent moisturizer for dry skin, hands and feet. The citrus mint fragrance smells amazing. You can make your own for a fraction of what you would pay at bath and body stores.

    Homemade Citrus Mint Hand Salve

    if you love chocolate-covered strawberries, you'll love this moisturizing homemade lip balm made with dark cocoa butter and strawberry flavor oil.

    Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Homemade Lip Balm

    Get a close shave every time with this easy, homemade shaving cream recipe. Your guy will love the smoky and woody masculine scent .

    Homemade Shaving Cream

    Filed Under: Craft Tutorials, Crafting, Holiday & Seasonal Crafts, Homemade Beauty, Winter Crafts Tagged With: essential oil, essential oils, homemade bath products, homemade beauty products, homemade lotion, lotion

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    1. Asha

      September 21, 2019 at 8:01 pm

      I’m excited to try this. Can you share why you add neroli and palmarosa oils? I have never seen these in homemade body care product recipes and I am curious! From my brief research it looks like they are more for scent.

      Reply
      • Atta Girl Amy

        January 07, 2021 at 1:37 pm

        I just enjoy the scent.

        Reply
    2. Hil

      March 14, 2017 at 8:05 pm

      I LOVE these!! I totally want to make them. It’s so hard to think of using 25 drops of my precious essential oil on it though! But totally worth it after I know.

      Thanks for sharing at #bloggerspotlight

      Reply
    3. Nicole

      March 12, 2017 at 11:16 am

      I love the push up jars you used to dispense these lotion bars. What a great idea! I pinned this to my DIY Beauty board to try. Thanks for linking up with us at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope you will link up again this coming Friday.

      Reply
    4. Theresa @DearCreatives

      March 11, 2017 at 1:46 pm

      I have made something similar but not put into sticks. Love this DIY. Pinned & sharing. Thanks for joining the Inspiration Spotlight party. Happy almost spring!!

      Reply
    5. Vanessa

      March 10, 2017 at 9:43 pm

      What a great recipe for lotion. I love it and I am pinning. Thank you for sharing at Dishing it and Digging it link party. We love having you share every week. q

      Reply
    6. Marie

      March 07, 2017 at 7:37 pm

      These sound fabulous! My hands get painfully dry during the winter and these look perfect to throw in my purse! Thanks for the recipe 🙂

      Reply
    7. Roseann Hampton

      March 06, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      This looks like it is really moisturizing! Pinning to try!

      Reply

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