Homemade lotion bars are easy to make with just three ingredients plus essential oils. Indulging in the art of self-care takes on a DIY twist by creating homemade lotion bars. A blend of shea butter or cocoa butter, beeswax, and coconut oil creates hydration and protective elements for your skin.
These bars promote skin elasticity, moisturization, and a soothing sensory experience. Enhanced with the warm scent of cinnamon sticks and clove essential oils, these lotion bars impart a captivating fragrance. Uncover the secrets of making your own lotion bars, elevating self-care to an enchanting and personalized level.
Cinnamon and Clove Homemade Lotion Bars
Making your own soaps, lotions, shaving cream, and other beauty products is easy. I fell in love with DIYing these items years ago. You generally will need a few basic supplies, and then you’re set to make fun things!
Lotion Bar Ingredients
- Shea Butter or Cocoa Butter
- Beeswax Pellets
- Refined Coconut Oil (unrefined coconut oil will smell like coconuts if you prefer to have the smell for your bars)
- Clove Essential Oil
- Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
- Cinnamon Sticks
Lotion Bar Instructions
Begin by wiping down the bar mold to get rid of any dirt or dust. Place one cinnamon stick in each mold. Set the mold aside but in close proximity to the stove.
This is a very lookse “recipe.” You can use any amount of ingredients as long as they are equal parts. Start small to get a feel for the bars. I suggest starting with 1/3 cup each of the butter, oil, and wax.
Melt together equal amounts of butter, coconut oil, and beeswax in a double boiler. You can check out my tutorial on how to melt ingredients with a double boiler. It’s the same idea as melting the wax, but instead, you melt the lotion ingredients. This helps keep your pots and pans from getting gunked up with lotion.
The butter and coconut oil will melt fairly quickly, but the beeswax will take a little longer. It takes a bit of heat to get the wax to melt. Just be patient as it will melt eventually.
Once all the ingredients are melted together, remove from the heat. Stir in a few drops of clove and cinnamon. I used about drops of each.
Carefully pour the lotion mixture into the molds until about 2/3 full. Allow the lotion bars to set and cool completely before removing from the mold. The bars are a little slippery even when cool and set so I throw them in the fridge to set.
If you want to make these as gifts, use a Christmas-shaped mold. I skipped the cinnamon sticks in the Christmas shapes.
You can wrap the lotion bars in parchment or wax paper for giving, too. I wrote the scent on the parchment paper.
Homemade Cinnamon Clove Lotion Bars
Equipment
- Silicone soap mold
Materials
- Shea Butter or Cocoa Butter
- Beeswax Pellets
- Refined Coconut Oil unrefined coconut oil will smell like coconuts if you prefer to have the smell for your bars
- Clove Essential Oil
- Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
- Cinnamon Sticks
Instructions
- Wipe down the bar mold to get rid of any dirt or dust. Place one cinnamon stick in each mold. Set the mold aside.
- Melt together equal amounts of butter, coconut oil, and beeswax in a double boiler.
- Remove from the heat. Stir in a few drops of clove and cinnamon.
- Carefully pour the lotion mixture into the molds until about 2/3 full. Allow the lotion bars to set and cool completely before removing from the mold.