Lotion Body Bar

Lotion Body Bar

Solid lotion bars are so easy to make and excellent for travelling or camping. I like to team them with solid shampoo and solid conditioner bars, that way I can throw them in my suitcase and don't have to worry about any liquids bursting open in transit.

Depending on the season and where you live you might want to play with the ratios a little bit. Warmer climates will make the bar softer so you might want to use more wax, cooler climates will make bar harder so you may want to drop the wax ration and up the soft butter and/or liquid oil ratio.

Wax
I've made this bar with candelilla wax to make it vegan, you could also use beeswax or another vegan wax like sunflower or rice bran. Each wax can produce a slightly different final product so just be aware you may have to do some adjusting.

Butter
You can use Refined Shea Butter or UnRefined Shea Butter or swap it out for another soft butter such as Mango Butter  mango. The consistency of the butter will change the consistency of the final bar. I used shea butter because it's softest and I am using quite a high ratio of wax.

Carrier Oil
You can use any liquid Carrier oil you want, or a mixture of several, just keep the entire ratio of liquid oil the same.

Scent
I kept this one unscented because I wanted to be able to use it on my face and I personally prefer unscented products for facial use. If you wanted to scent it you could add Essential oil or Fragrance oil at 0.5% for facial use or 1% for body use. Take that percentage out of the carrier oil/s so that your formula remains at 100% total. Add essential oil once you've taken it off the heat, right before you pour into moulds.

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Ingredients

Makes one 120g bar - Adjust your batch size using our Batch Size Calculator

• 35% | 42g  Refined Shea Butter or UnRefined Shea Butter 
  
• 34% | 40.8g cherry kernel oil, certified organic
  
• 31% | 37.2 Candelilla Wax
• Optional - sprinkle in some mica to give your bar a bit of colour

Method

1. Weigh your ingredients
2. Gently melt on the stovetop
3. Optional step. Once melted,  Sprinkle in some mica until you achieve the desired shade
4. Pour into mould/s
5. Allow to set
6. Pop out of mould

To Use

Gently rub on skin, the bar should soften on contact with skin so give it a moment to warm up. Massage in.

Video Tutorial - Make Lotion Bars