How to Make Lotion like a Professional - All ingredients explained
Learn how to make a homemade lotion like a professional, it will be a solid foundation that you can build on to make all kinds of products. All you have to do is combine the water, oil and emulsifier together to create your own lotion from scratch. From there, you can change the recipe with different oils and additives.
Servings: 9 ounces
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Scale
Ingredients
Water Phase
- 6.48 ounce | 72% Distilled Water
- 0.18 ounce | 2% Sodium Lactate
Oil Phase
- 0.45 ounce | 5% Shea butter
- 0.90 ounce | 10% Jojoba Oil
- 0.45 ounce | 5% Olivum 1000
- 0.27 ounce | 3% Cetyl Alcohol
Cool Down Phase
- 0.05 ounce | 0.5% Germall Plus
- 0.05 ounce | 0.5% Vitamin E Oil
- 0.18 ounce | 2% Cucumber Melon Fragrance Oil
Instructions
Hygiene
- To make sure that your lotion is safe, you always want to work in a clean environment. It is not going to be sterile but it doesn't have to be. You should always clean and disinfect all of the equipment that you will be using and your work area. You should also clean out any containers that you will be using. New containers that are in wrapped packaging should be fine as is, but if you would like you can clean them. I like to spray a bit of rubbing alcohol in the containers or clean them out with a bleach solution before using them.
Weighing the ingredients
- Weight out all of your ingredients, putting the water phase into one heat safe container and the oil phase in a separate heat safe container.
Heat both water and oil phase
- Heat the water and oil phase on a double boiler. You are going to heat them until the oil phase is completely melted.
Combine the phases
- Once you have removed both the water and the oil phases from the double boiler, you will combine them together. Now I like to add the oil phase to the water phase, but I do not have a reason for this. If you prefer you can add the water phase into the oil phase.
- Mix it with an immersion blender right away to create an emulsion.
Cool down phase
- Once the lotion has cooled down to below the temperature suggested on your preservative, you can add your heat sensitive ingredients. For Germall Plus, it has to be below 122ºF. This is the phase when you are going to add your fragrance oil or essential oils. You can also add any actives that you may be using. Mix well.