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Whipped Shea Butter Lotion

Like many of you I love Shea Butter for its many virtues. It moisturizes skin, reduce scarring (acne, wound, stretch marks), restores elasticity of the skin, soothe irritated skin and diaper rash on babies, and much more (see Shea Butter any benefits here). However, its hard texture makes it tough to apply and spread, this is why it is also recommended to incorporate/mix it with a oil of choice.

Here I am offering you to transform your Shea Butter in to a whipped creamy and smooth consistency. Not only will this whipped lotion have all the amazing benefits of the Shea Butter but it will also hold the benefits of the oil of your choice (see oil option here).

Ingredients:

  • 100 g of Shea Butter
  • 50 g of Coconut Oil
  • 50 g of Oil of your choice (Sweet almond oil, Avocado oil, Caster oil, Jojoba Oil, Oat Oil, ect…)
  • 1/2 tbs of Vitamine E Oil (slows down rancidity of the oil and butter)
  • 10 drops of Essence Oil of choice (Peppermint, Tea tree, Vanilla, Lavendar, ect…)

Please note that in the making of any cosmetic products, I always use weighting measures. Each substance (oil, butter, ect…) have its on consistency that needs to be weight to provide accuracy. I would highly recommend investing in a small kitchen weighting machine as they are very inexpensive (here are a few option).

Instructions:

  • Sanitize every utensil, container and equipment you are about to use, by boiling them and wiping them dry with a clean piece of cloth. This is important to prevent any bacteria from developing.
  • In a bowl place the Shea butter and coconut oil with an hand mixer or stand mixer. Mix it until it get in a paste like consistency. About 5 min. The mixer shouldn’t be lumpy rather smooth and lushes.
  • Add the oil of choice and mix the products together so that they are all well incorporated. About 3 min
  • Add the Vitamin E oil and Essence oil of choice. Mix for an other 3 min.
  • Test the whipped lotion on the back of your hand to see if the lotion is smooth and spreads easily. You are aim for a whipped, fluffy consistency.
  • Transfer Whipped lotion in to your sanitized container.

Whipped lotion can now be use anywhere on your body.

Conversation:

Can be keep for up to 3 months.

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The Many Benefits of Shea Butter:

  • Excellent daily skin moisturizer for face and body
  • Prevent and reduce stretch marks during pregnancy and weight gain and loss
  • Restores elasticity to skin and reduces blemishes and wrinkles
  • Anti-aging
  • Helps reduces and heal acne and scarring
  • Excellent moisturizer for both eczema and psoriasis
  • Helps soothe skin and diaper rash
  • After sun conditioning
  • Helps softens tough skin on hands and feet
  • Dry, itchy skin and scalp relief
  • Use after shaving to reduce razor irritation and bumps

How to choose your oil:

  • Avocado oil – great for dry skin or during winter
  • Jojoba oil – great for oily skin or during summer
  • Sweet almond oil – great for all type of skin
  • Oat oil – great of any irritated skin or sensitive skin (I use this one for my son delicate skin)

How to choose your essence oil:

Choosing an essence oil can be strictly for the aromatic aspect of the essence oil. However, as we all know every essence oil has its on virtue which can add amazing benefits to your whipped lotion or can go against the result you are aiming for. Below are a few essence oil and their benefits:

  • Peppermint essence oil
  • Tea Tree essence oil
  • Vanilla essence oil
  • Lavender essence oil
  • Sweet Orange essence oil
  • Grapefruit essence oil
  • And much more…..

Here is a great website which can give you all the background you need on each essence oil. https://www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/blog/

Full Disclosure:

I do want to emphasis that I am NOT a dermatologist or a doctor nor do I hold any certificate, degree, nor professional experience on skincare and hair care. What I share on this blog is purely personnel experience and knowledge. As you start this journey, please test every ingredient on a part of your skin, days in advance before starting or introducing new ingredient to your skincare or hair care.

Sources:

https://outofafricashea.com/the-benefits-of-shea-butter/

https://wellnessmama.com/27324/shea-butter-benefits/

https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/best-benefits-of-shea-butter-for-skin-hair-and-health/#BenefitsOfSheaButterForTheSkin

https://lestrappeus.es/meringue-fouettee-beurre-de-karite/

https://waamcosmetics.com/fr/blog/46_DIY—Beurre-fouett%C3%A9-karit%C3%A9-et-cacao-.html

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Nightly Face “Cream”

The first and easiest change you can make to your nightly face routine is your cream/serum. This would be moisturizing stage, post cleaning, exfoliating and toning.

I pretty much create my moisturizer with 3 basic ingredient in the palm of my hand. I wrote cream in parentheses because it is more of a lotion form, you will see.

Here are the product and quantity I use:

  • Base – Aloe Vera Gel (95%) – dime size drop
  • Base/Carrier oil – Nigella Oil – 1 pump or 5 drops
  • Added oil – Rosehip Oil – 3 drops

I then rub my hands together to mix the 3 ingredients and massage the cream on to my face in circular motion.

Tailor your cream/serum:

The above oils will not work for every types of skin (Normal, Dry, Oily, Sensitive, and Combination). It is important to do some research to make sure you choose the right oils/ingredients for your type of skin. If you do not know your type of skin I highly recommend you visit a dermatologist, who will be able to help you identify your type of skin.

Base/ Carrier Oil : If you are unsure as to which base/carrier oil to start with, you may start with Jojoba Oil. This is the oil of excellence as it is suitable for all types of skin since resembles the human sebum the most. This oil will regulate sebum and bring a perfect nutrition to your skin.

Added Oil: You may add an oil to your cream/serum based on the result you are targeting. I personally choose Rosehip Oil, to help minimize my pores/scars due to acne. Do know that Rosehip Oil is suitable for all type of skin and is also great for healing, softening, regenerating, and preventing wrinkles.

More Detail:

Benefits of each ingredients for my type of skin or/and blemishes I am targeting. There are much more benefits to each ingredient which I do not list:

  • Aloe Vera Gel – control oil, prevent wrinkles, helps with acne, healing of acne scaring.
  • Nigella Oil – heals scars, regenerates, and soothes skin. It is also great for combine skin.
  • Rosehip Oil – fades acne scars/pores

Where I get each ingredients from:

Sources:

Full Disclosure:

I do want to emphasis that I am NOT a dermatologist or a doctor nor do I hold any certificate, degree, nor professional experience on skincare and hair care. What I share on this blog is purely personnel experience and knowledge. As you start this journey, please test every ingredient on a part of your skin, days in advance before starting or introducing new ingredient to your skincare or hair care.

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My beginning journey to DIY organic skincare and hair care?

I am of french Caribbean origin (Saint Martin), living in the United States for the past 8 years.

My son and french movement were my 2 reasons for starting this journey:

I started my journey of homemade (DYI) skincare and hair care in 2016, after having my son. As many new parents can relate, after the birth of my son I started looking more in deeps in the composition of everything my family uses and consumes.

However, I drew very fond of making my on skincare and hair care routine using organic primary ingredient based on my skin type such as floral water, essence oils, plant based powders, vegetable oils and more.

The inspiration truly came from following a few French blogeurs that shared their knowledge on the benefits and use of organic primary ingredient. In France, the homemade/DYI skincare trend is quite large and a lot of information can be found on how to treat individual skin and hair needs by way of using organic primary mostly plant based ingredient.

First challenges on this journey:

After having been drown and filled with eagerness to start my own journey, I was faced with a challenge very quickly. That challenge was to find these organicprimary ingredient in small quantity (not Wholesale) in the United States. It was very difficult or almost impossible to find TRUSTED organic primary ingredient here in the US, and I stress on the trusted because, yes you could find a few but they just didn’t seem quite authentic and organic.

Nevertheless, I had a friend in France ship me a few product to get me started and see if this is something that would truly work for me. Needless to say that was the start of a enjoyable and successful journey to homemade/DYI skincare and hair care routines.

Bringing this knowledge to the US readers:

By way of this blog, I would like to share with you some very simple ways to get YOU started on a homemade/DYI skincare and hair care routine. I noticed very early in my search that surprisingly this trend has not quite made it to the US or at least not the decomposed intricate knowledge of each ingredient and the knowledge on how to build the best product for your skin type and hair type. Sure their are emerging small brand selling extremely expensive organic skincare and hair care product, however you still don’t know what the product is composed of and if it is truly made for your skin and hair type. I hope I can shed some light and small amount of knowledge based on my experience with you on how you could start this journey as well.

Budget friendly:

Furthermore, as a new mom I had to reevaluate by budget on skincare and hair care all while trying to provide use organic product. Surprisingly enough, the homemade/DYI skincare and hair care become more affordable. When I say affordable I mean in comparison to all the small organic brand selling their product at an insanely expensive price and if you were use to name brand skin care and hair care. However, if you use drugstore skincare and hair care this may not quite seem as a budget friendly to you.

Full Disclosure:

I do want to emphasis that I am NOT a dermatologist or a doctor nor do I hold any certificate, degree, nor professional experience on skincare and hair care. What I share on this blog is purely personnel experience and knowledge. As you start this journey, please test every ingredient on a part of your skin days in advance before start or introducing new ingredient to your skincare or hair care.