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Oat Body Lotion Recipe

This oat body lotion recipe brings a homemade lotion for you with a silky, velvety feeling, very moisturizing and with soothing properties.
Enriched with colloidal oat and aloe vera, it may even be adequate for sensitive skin or skin with conditions. Otherwise it's adequate for any skin type.
Difficulty: Easy
Weight: 50g
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Method: Emulsion
Cosmetic: Lotion
Servings: 1 pot of 50 ml
Author: Sofia Matias
Cost: $0,6 / 0,46€ (price without pot)

Ingredients

Oil Phase

Water Phase

Cooling Phase

Instructions

Preparations

  • Learn the basics of making lotions in How To Make An Emulsion For Skincare or watch the video above. They don't have a recipe, but show generic steps of how to make a lotion (emulsion).
    white emulsion -a body lotion made with rose petals infused water, vegetable oils and rose scent
  • Disinfect all your equipment before starting. You can boil some of your equipment (like the double boiler, glass cups, spoons), and use a solution of 1 liter of water with 1/2 cup of bleach, for items that are not heat-resistant (like the milk frother, plastic cups or the lotion containers)
    Disinfect-equipment

Water Phase

  • Measure all the water phase ingredients - water and aloe vera - into a cup. Measure the oat flour into another cup.
  • Heat the water ingredients in low heat to around 60 °C. You can use the microwave but the best is to heat in bagne-marie. Tilt the mug slightly inside the pan with water or the mug will rattle. Do not let the water boil.
  • Once hot, you can add the oat flour and mix it with the milk frother. The oat makes easily a lot of lumps, so be patient. Press the lumps with a spoon if needed.

Oil Phase

  • Measure all oil ingredients (sunflower oil, sweet almond oil and wax) into the double boiler
  • Place the double boiler over a pan with water (bagne-marie) and let the emulsifying wax melt in low heat

Cooling Phase

  • Measure all cooling phase ingredients into a small cup.
  • The essential oil is optional. Vitamin E will enrich your lotion with an anti-oxidant, and is also optional. The preservative is not optional. Use the quantities as per manufacturer instructions. I use Euxyl k940 at 1%.
    cooling-phase-ingredients

Making your Lotion

  • Measure the temperature of both the water and the oils. Make sure the water is at a higher temperature than the oils.
  • Pour the water into the oils. The mixture will immediately turn milky.
    pour water in oils
  • Blend the mixture well with a milk frother. There might be lumps due to the oat flour. Press them with a spoon. Since I have used aloe vera gel from fresh leaves, I've also found some lumps from it.
    mix with milk frother
  • The mixture will become creamy but runny.
    creamy white lotion
  • Wait till the mixture is around 50 °C or a little lower. Then pour the cooling phase ingredients and mix well with a spoon or the milk frother.

Finishing your Lotion

  • It's time to measure your lotion pH. It should be around 5.5 (5-6). Add one teaspoon of citric acid dissolved in water (you can also use lemon juice) if pH is too high, or a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in water if pH is too low. Add as many teaspoons as needed but one or two should be enough.
    measuring-pH-with-test-paper
  • Pour your lotion into an opaque squeeze bottle. You can also use a tin container, but a squeeze or pump opaque bottle protects your lotion against light and air oxidation, dirt contamination or getting in contact with your fingers.

Video

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