Every year around this time my skin starts hating me. The dry air and the lack of time outside makes my skin get itchy, tight and just all around angry feeling. So this year, I decided rather than bath in the gallons of lotion I typically do, I needed to make a change.
I have been drinking water properly, as a breastfeeding mother should, as well as taking all the proper Omega-3 vitamins. So when the itchy feeling started creeping in again, I knew it wasn't enough.
With the addition of Essential Oils to our household this year, I knew I could find an oil or two to help me.
I ended up going with Elemi and Lavender.
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Lavender is kind of the "Swiss Army knife" of the oils. You can use it for almost anything! Bonus points because it is one of my favorite scents. Elemi is a lesser known oil that is amazing for all things skin related. I decided to play around with a few things and see if I couldn't make a recipe for a body butter since I had some Shea Butter and it was a snow day so I was feeling super "crafty".
This is the resulting recipe:
3/4 Cup Coconut Oil
3/4 Cup Shea Butter
1 1/2 Tablespoon Vitamin E Oil
25 Drops Elemi
25 Drops Lavender
( To learn more about the oils I use, go here)
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- Put the shea butter into a mixer
- Put coconut oil into the mixer
- Blend until smooth
- Add vitamin E oil and Essential Oil drops
- Blend until smooth
- Put into cute jars and use or give as gifts
I plan on making more of this and gifting to to some of my family members because I LOVE it so much! I am already seeing a difference in the appearance of my skin and it feels so much better.
Starting in December, I am going to be posting lots of different crafts, recipes, and gift ideas that I am doing. So stay tuned!
