The Dry-Skin Dilemma

As much as I love winter, my skin doesn’t. Between the cold weather, washing my hands 50 times a day, and hot forced air heating…my skin gets dry. Fortunately not dry and cracked, but dry and very itchy, to the point of being painful.

I used to use Bath and Body Works Shea Butter, it comes in a big blue tube and would cost around $20 {I’m sure it’s more now}. The stuff worked great, but it’s expensive and had a bunch of other things in it that I wasn’t too comfortable with using on the kids.

I had priced out Shea Butter online and found that I could buy a pound of organic unrefined shea butter on Amazon.com for a whole lot less than I was paying for the other stuff. Before buying I googled to see how and what I would need to process the shea butter so that it could be used as lotion. I found this awesome video on youtube.

And lucky me, we have a huge container of coconut oil available at all times in our house!

One night last week I decided to finally whip up a batch. It took me a few minutes to melt the ingredients over the double boiler, then put it on the back deck for a few hours, attached the whip attachment to my kitchen aid and away we went!

It didn’t take very long to have it the consistency that I liked. I did add in a couple of drops of Sun Ripened Raspberry scent that I had from my last soap/lotion experiment {I think next time I’ll try and use something different}.

We’ve been using it for the past week and I love it! I got a little less than a cup of lotion for us to use. We’ve been using it on the kids cheeks {upper and lower} and it’s been great.

I’ve been using it on myself and it works just as well, if not better, than the expensive store stuff. Plus it has the added benefit of only costing a dollar or two to make and it doesn’t have a ton of chemicals in it.

I’d have to say it was a score!

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