Jennifer’s Intense Hand Salve
Wanda’s Lotion Bar
Wanda commented that she wanted to try her hand at making a body butter. As she is a soapmaker who is wanting to venture into other products, I thought I would give her two recipes to try with the ingredients she has on hand. The first recipe is a simple lotion bar recipe that was inspired by the Lotion Bar recipe.
25% Beeswax
17% Regular Cocoa Butter or White Cocoa Butter
15% Shea Butter, Refined
10% Mango Butter
33% Rice Bran Oil
Wanda’s Creamed Body Butter
The other recipe that I formulated for Wanda was based on a recent blog post/recipe for a Creamed Shea Body Butter. I added a fragrance that she has on hand and used Rice Bran to help soften the texture of the finished butter.
89% Shea Butter, Refined
9.5% Rice Bran Oil
0.5% Vanilla Yogurt Fragrance Oil or fragrance of your choice
Jennifer’s Intense Hand Salve
Jennifer Gale wrote in requesting either an intense hand cream. Well, I had the almost-perfect recipe for her. It just needed a few changes! I took the Bottoms Up Day 5 formula and made a few tweaks. I made a test batch and it turned out with a very similar texture!
25% High Melt Point Shea Butter
30% Macadamia Nut Butter
10% Cocoa Butter, Deodorized or White
4.5% Jojoba, Golden or Colorless
7.5% Beeswax
10% Apricot Kernel Oil
6% Calendula Oil
3% Castor Oil
2% Aloe Extract
2% Green Tea Extract
Jennifer’s Cuticle Gelly
Jennifer also requested a cuticle cream or gelly. As I haven’t made one recently (my cuticles are demanding some TLC), I decided to dust off the Cuticle Gelly Recipe and adjust the ingredients for Jennifer’s cupboard. Yum!
3% Carnauba Wax
30% Macadamia Butter
10% Avocado Oil
8% Cranberry Seed Oil
5% Castor Oil
30% Apricot Kernel Oil
7% Jojoba, Golden or Colorless
5% Cocoa Butter, Deodorized or White
1.5% Vitamin E Acetate
0.5% fragrance oil of choice
Well, I have yet more formulas to share with you tomorrow! If you make one of these formulas, I would love to hear your opinion about it!
See you tomorrow!
The intense hand salve sounds like just what I need! My hands are screaming for more since the temps drastically dropped this week.
I just put it on my hands and they feel wonderful! You will really like the intense hand salve!
I won’t be able to try it for a while, but it sounds like the hand salve will be a perfect after-work treat. I work with paper in Phoenix, AZ. Dry air plus lots of paper handling means dry, scaly hands!
Yikes! I know the feeling after handling paper in a dry climate. After two days, your hands will feel like new! (Mine are!)
Is the cuticle cream more liquid or solid? I am wondering what type of container to have for it. 🙂
The cuticle gelly is a thick liquid, about the consistency of Liquid Glycerin. I would recommend the lip brush pens or dropper bottles for this product.
Thank you this amazing stuff
I just wanted to pop back in, four years later, and say, the cuticle gelly and the hand salve are two of my most-requested gifts! A friend got one of the cuticle gelly pens from me, and found it worked really well when she was having an eczema outbreak on her hands. She requested a larger jar, since she ripped through the little pen pretty quick. 🙂 The salve, two of my friends have said it works WONDERS on dry, calloused FEET in the winter (one in Ohio, one in Arizona). I’ve had to sub in Mango Butter for the Macadamia Butter, but it still works beautifully. Thank you again for these two great recipes!