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DIY Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm

April 16, 2018 By ParkerMama 2 Comments

Making your own lip balm is easy.  What’s hard is deciding what kind of lip balm to make.  Today I’m combining two of my favorite things, lemon essential oil, and freeze dried raspberries into a coconut oil and beeswax lip balm that is not just moisturizing but provides a little bit of summer time flavor too.  You’re going to love this Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm!

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm Flavoring

The taste of DIY Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm comes from freeze dried raspberries and lemon essential oil. If you are a regular around here you already know I order Young Living Essential Oils only!

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm Ingredients

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1/3 Cup Freeze Dried Raspberries

2 Tablespoons Coconut Oil

1.5 Tablespoons Grated Beeswax or Beeswax Pellets (If you would like you lip balm to be softer, use only 1 Tablespoon Grated Beeswax)

3 Drops Lemon Essential Oil

Lip Balm Tubes

PRO TIP:  Mix it up!  Use Freeze Dried Blueberries or Strawberries or even Pineapple  instead of Raspberries!

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm The Method

I used my mortar and pestle to crush the raspberries.  Afterwards, the crushed raspberries were put into a strainer and the seeds were separated from the raspberry powder.

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm

Melt the coconut oil and beeswax.  I used  my *this post contains affiliate links stainless steel melting pot over a pan of hot water. Seriously folks, these little beauties are worth the money.  You can pour straight from the melting pot into the tubes, and clean up consisted of wiping it out with a paper towel!

double boiler

Next, add in the sifted raspberry powder and if you like, about a 1/4 of a teaspoon of sugar.  Stir this in well over the hot water, until sugar is melted.

Lip Balm Ingredients

Finally, pour melted lip balm into containers.

Because this lip balm doesn’t contain an emulsifier, the raspberry powder will want to settle to the bottom of your lip balm tube as it cools.  I poured my lip balm a little bit cooler than I usually do to allow it to set up quicker.

Pouring at a cooler temperature helped to keep the raspberry powder suspended better.  I just rewarmed my lip balm solution as needed.

Raspberry Lemonade Lip Balm

Pro Tip: To get that clean, professional look to lip balm tubes, over pour your tubes just a bit.

Looking For More Homemade Essential Oil Recipes?

Here are a couple of my favorite essential oil recipes. Take a look and see what you think!

Homemade Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Bar With Essential Oils

How To Order Young Living Essential Oils

Filed Under: Essential Oil Recipe, Essential Oils Tagged With: #DIY, essential oil recipes, Homemade, young living

Homemade Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

April 12, 2018 By ParkerMama Leave a Comment

I’m not a big fan of taking jars of sugar scrub into the shower with me. Water gets into handmade items and can cause all kinds of grief.  Instead, I love bringing a Homemade Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar with me.   Super simple to make, I just break off a piece of the bar and take that with me  into the shower.

Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

What Makes Our Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar Terrific?

The exfoliation from the brown sugar smooths the way for the avocado oil to sink in and soften and nourish skin.

The combination of scents from the organic brown sugar combined with vanilla extract and orange essential oil is a favorite of mine. I also used a honey based melt and pour soup. Don’t hesitate to skip the vanilla extract and replace the orange with your favorite essential oil blend.

Ingredients For Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

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1/3 Cup Avocado Oil

1.5 Cups Organic Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup Honey Melt and Pour Soap Base

5 drops vanilla extract

20 drops Orange Essential Oil  ( Here’s how you can order Young Living Essential Oils)

Silicone Soap Mold

 Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

Method For Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

1. Melt soap base in microwave safe container (I use a Pyrex Measuring Cup) 20 seconds at a time, stirring well, until it’s melted. Watch carefully as scorched soap stinks, and you can’t scent over that.

2. Stir in Avocado Oil until well blended.

3. Continue to stir soap until it cools to the point of thickening. This is the hard part to explain. If you add your brown sugar to soap that is too hot, it will melt the brown sugar.

The soap needs to be cool, but still moldable. I stir until a skim starts to form, then I add just a bit of brown sugar and watch to see if it melts. If it stays pretty much solid, pour in the rest and then add vanilla extract and orange essential oil.

4. Scoop mixture into your silicone mold. Allow your organic brown sugar scrub bar to totally firm up. Remove bar from mold, and allow to dry out for at least a day before you use it.

PRO TIP: Depending on your skin type you may want to increase the oil to 1/2 cup or decrease it to 1/4 of a cup. After I add in the brown sugar, vanilla extract and essential oil, I have to scoop the mixture into the mold, it is too thick to pour. Play around with it until you hit your perfect mix of oil and brown sugar to meet your moisturizing needs.

 Organic Brown Sugar Scrub Bar

Like Making Your Own Bath And Body Stuff?

I love making my own bath and body products, along with my own skin care items. I like knowing exactly what is in them. Custom blends are a must for me too. So, if you like making your own stuff too, here are some other essential oil recipes I think you will really like!

Homemade Herbal Milk Bath Essential Oil Recipe

Simple DIY Facial Toner With Essential Oils 

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap With Essential Oils

How To Order Young Living Essential Oils

Filed Under: Essential Oil Recipe, Essential Oils Tagged With: #DIY, essential oils, Homemade, recipe, young living

Homemade Herbal Milk Bath Essential Oil Recipe

April 10, 2018 By ParkerMama Leave a Comment

Our Homemade Herbal Milk Bath is going to rock your world.  Milk, chamomile flowers, and lavender essential oil provide nourishing skin properties, including removing scaly winter dried skin.  As a result, ingredients you may already have in your cupboard work skin softening magic in your bathtub.

Homemade Herbal Milk Bath With Essential Oils

Homemade Herbal Milk Bath Ingredients

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3 Tablespoons Chamomile Flowers  I grow my own, but you might like these Organic Chamomile Heads from Starwest Botanicals

1 c whole powdered milk

1/4 c cornstarch

1/4 c baking soda

10+ drops of Lavender Essential Oil  {I only use Young Living Essential Oils!}

Pro Tip:  We’ll walk you through how to order Young Living Essential Oils!

Home Grown Organic Chamomile Flowers For Homemade Herbal Milk Bath

DIRECTIONS For Homemade Herbal Milk Bath

I ground my chamomile flowers in my *this post contains affiliate links mortar and pestle, mixing them in with the dry ingredients.

Next, whisk in essential oil until smooth. Finally, add mixture to jar,   and allow to “marinate” for 24 hours.

I have a soft spot for ‘trigger jars‘, but these 1 Pint canning jars would be super duper cute too!  Not to mention super affordable!

Homemade Herbal Milk Bath With Essential Oils

Different Soaks For Different Folks

I love the versatility of this recipe. You could easily switch out powdered oatmeal for the milk. Add in 1/4 Cup of sea salt. Switch out Lavender buds for the Chamomile. You, my friend, are the master of your own Homemade Herbal Milk Bath destiny.

Essential Oils For Every Mood

The therapeutic benefits of essential oils, and their ability to enhance moods are vast.

Looking to feel energized? Try Peppermint, Eucalyptus, or Lime.

Need some down time? Try one of these blends:

Take Me Away: 4 drops Lavender, 4 drops Lime, 2 drops Spearmint

Mama Time: 4 drops Lavender, 3 Grapefruit, 2 drops Lemon

Kicking Anxiety To The Curb: 5 drops Clary Sage, 3 drops Neroli

Just in case you may be wondering….How To Order Young Living Essential Oils

Thanks, Cleopatra!

History whispers that Cleopatra knew the benefits of a good homemade herbal milk bath. Now YOU do too!

What’s your favorite Milk Bath Recipe?

Look! Even MORE Essential Oil Recipes!

Homemade DIY Gardeners Soap With Essential Oils

Simple DIY Facial Toner With Essential Oils

DIY Manuka Honey Recipe For Preppers

Embossed Soap Making Tutorial

Lavender Charcoal Soap DIY Homemade Soap Recipe

How To Oder Young Living Essential Oils

Filed Under: Essential Oil Recipe, Essential Oils Tagged With: #DIY, essential oil recipes, Homemade, young living

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap With Essential Oils

March 26, 2018 By ParkerMama 2 Comments

It’s almost that time of the year again!  Time to play in the dirt and get planting!  When it comes to cleaning grimy gardener hands, this Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap with essential oils the perfect solution!

What Makes A Great Gardener’s Soap?

You want a bar that exfoliates and soothes as it cleans.  And the scent. The scent must be one that keeps you coming back over and over again because while it does only smell good, it makes you feel good too.

Yup, it’s a tall order for a soap recipe, but I’ve nailed it for you!

Homemade DIY Gardener's Soap

Gardener’s Soap Ingredients

This Garderner’s soap recipe is poured in two easy layers. The first layer is a melt and pour goat milk layer with cornmeal for the exfoliation and coco butter for it’s skin softening properties……and it’s utterly delicious aroma.

What? Not a cocoa butter fan? Well, I guess we can still be friends. You can replace the cocoa butter with another hard butter such as kokum. You won’t get the great scent with this butter, but kokum butter will still give you a hard bar of soap, which is what we are going for.

Now, in this first soap bar layer, you want the corn meal to be disbursed throughout the entire layer. The secret to this is in the temperature of your soap base when you pour. Don’t worry. I’ll walk you through it.

The second layer is your soothing layer that starts out with a goat milk and pour soap base.  You know how after playing in the dirt for a few hours you can often wind up with a few scrapes or patches of irritation?  The healthy dose of Bentonite Clay, along with more cocoa butter,  takes care of all that.

The killer finish comes in the form of Young Living’s Fresh Citrus Essential Oil. Mercy. Fresh Citrus Essential oil and the cocoa butter work together to create a bar of soap you’ll want to eat. And for those of you who sell your soaps, you know that a signature scent means repeat customers.

You’re Welcome.

Pro Tip: One great thing about adding clay to your soap is that the clay helps to ‘anchor’ the scent!

DIY Handmade Gardener's Soap Melt and Pour Recipe Ingredients.

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap List of Supplies

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2 pounds goat milk melt and pour soap, separated into two 1 pound portions.  1 pound per layer.

2 ounces corn meal
2 ounces bentonite clay
4 T cocoa butter
4 ounce soap molds
Alcohol Spritzer
Microwave Safe Measuring Cup or Bowl
Measuring Spoons
Infrared Thermometer
Young Living’s Citrus Fresh Essential Oil

This is the ingredient list for eight 4 ounce bars of finished soap.

No Young Living’s Citrus Fresh essential oil on hand?    Here’s how to order Young Living Essential Oils.

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap Layer 1

Start by cutting your goat milk melt and pour base into small cubes. This makes the soap easier to melt.

Place into your microwave safe cup or bowl and cook on high for 30 seconds. Remove from microwave, stir then cook for another 30 seconds. Repeat process until all the soap is melted (about 1.5 minutes).

Remember, you never want your soap base to go above 130 degrees.  Scorched soap stinks.  This is where the Infrared Thermometer comes in so handy!

Homemade DIY Gardener's Soap

Add in 2 Tablespoons cocoa butter and stir until it is melted and well mixed.

Add 2 ounces of cornmeal. Stir. And stir some more. Did I mention that you’ll need to stir? You want the cornmeal to be evenly distributed throughout this first layer of soap. So. Stir.

When your based has cooled down a bit, add your Young Living Citrus Fresh Essential oil. I used about 20 drops per layer of soap.

The more you stir the more the soap will cool down allowing the cornmeal to be evenly disbursed throughout the soap. You want this to cool down to below 100 degrees F before pouring it onto the first layer. You can use your infrared thermometer to check the temperature.

No infrared thermometer? Okay.. This first layer of soap will look thick when it is ready to pour. You will be able to put your finger smack dab in the mist of your cornmeal, cocoa butter and essential oil infused goodness and not yell because it’s so hot.

Homemade DIY Gardener's Soap

Pour two ounces of your cornmeal base into your 4 ounce molds. So, two ounces of base per mold cavity. Spritz with alcohol to remove bubbles. Allow to set up.

Homemade DIY Gardener’s Soap Layer 2

Take your 1.5 Tablespoons of cocoa butter and put it into a microwave safe bowl, and microwave until melted.  Because adding the clay directly to your soap base will leave clumps in your soap, you need to create a ‘slurry’ with the clay and the cocoa butter.  Stir the melted cocoa butter and the clay until smooth, and set aside.

Bentonite clay and cocoa butter slurry

Cut your goat milk melt and pour soap base into chucks and microwave as above. Remember. You do NOT want to soap to go above 130 degrees. The smell of scorched soap is forever.

Spoon your slurry into your melted hemp soap base and stir until there are no lumps.

Add 20 drops of Citrus Fresh Essential Oil and stir again.

Spritz the layers of now set up soap in your molds.  This will help the new layer ‘stick’ to the corn meal layer.

Finally, pour your melted soap over the layers of your cornmeal base soap. Don’t be skimpy. Fill the mold up to the top, as it will shrink down as it cures. Remember, nobody likes a skinny bar of homemade DIY gardener’s soap.
Homemade DIY Gardener's Soap With Essential Oils

Pro Tip:  This bar is excellent for mechanics, artists, and anyone who works a lot with their hands and needs to get them really clean.

More Simple DIY Essential Oil Recipes

Do you love the DIY life? My way of thinking is that the more I can make myself, the less I have to rely on a store. The less I rely on a store, the more money I save. The more money I save, the more prepping I can do. Take a look at the recipes below. I think you’ll really like them!

Simple DIY Facial Toner With Essential Oils

DIY Manuka Honey Recipe    Cause, medical honey is pricey.  Like sell your first child pricey.

Embossed Soap Making Tutorial

Lavender Charcoal DIY Homemade Soap Recipe

Frugal Laundry Hacks:  Wool Dryer Balls   QUIT buying dryer sheets!

How To Order Young Living Essential Oils

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