DIY Lotion Bar Recipe with Essential Oils

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• I made this last night...really love it.

  Couple of questions:

  1. I used Fractionated Coconut oil - is that the correct type of Coconut Oil?

  2. The cocoa butter (which smells great) seems to overpower the essential oils. I used Organic Raw Cocoa Butter....is that the correct type?

  I would also recommend not using the dried lavender...it just makes a mess when you rub the bar on your body.

  Thanks!

  • How do you add color to these bars?.....with food coloring !!!!!

  • Hey Barbara. Thanks so much for your questions and suggestions! Fractionated coconut oil and organic raw cocoa butter would have been perfect and worked great for this recipe. Great to know that some people may want to add some more essential oil drops to their bars, if they want less of a cocoa butter smell. Thanks so much for stopping by and for your input! We love it!

• Do you have a DIY recipe for a LIQUID hand soap? Thank you!

  • Hey Marty. We do not because we already have our own Thieves brand soaps that we love. It is foaming hand soap, so I don't know if that would interest you. Maybe check out online for some DIY liquid soap recipes and if you need suggestions on oils to add, please let us know. Excited to see what you discover. Thanks for stopping by!

• I made my first batch of lotion bars yesterday! They are awesome! I love Young Living!

• Marilyn be careful with citrus oils and juice, they increase the sun sensitivity and may produce sunburn s

  • Joni, I must be sensitive to carrot seed oil around or near my eyes. I plan to make the
    recipe eliminating the carrot seed. I will let you know how it turns out. I may even add
    a favorite EO in its place.

• Will these harden properly without the cocoa butter? I really can't stand the smell but know this is the hardest butter.

  • Anytime your DIY products don't get as firm as you'd like them to, you can simply add more or less beeswax to adjust how firm or soft your end product is. You simply remelt and add melted beeswax. I dip a spoon in the mixture, then put it in the fridge for a minute. Then take the spoon out of the fridge and see how it set up.

    • Diana, thanks so much for your brilliant suggestion!

  • Hey Mickey. We never tried it without the cocoa butter, so we are not sure. Sorry we can't be of more help, but if you experiment with the butters or other hardening agents, let us know what you did and how they turned out. Thanks for stopping by!

    • there is unscented cocoa butter that is very nice

    • You may always substitute shea butter for cocoa butter. Also Mango Butter is nice also but more expensive

• If I make them what would I put them in to travel on a plane? Just wondering how fast they would melt?

• I made my first ever batch of lotion bars. I followed the recipe, my only concern is the cocoa butter will over power the lavender and lemon oils. There was enough to fill 4 out of the six silicone molds. I am very excited to try more and experiment using other essential oils!

  • You may always sub shea butter or mango butter for cocoa butter.

  • Awesome Suze! Let us know what you find as you experiment. Hopefully, they turned out how you wanted. Thanks for stopping by!

• i love lemon and lavender together. Would putting the lemon in make your skin photosensitive though? Just wondering, with summer coming up. Thanks!

  • Hello Teresa, Lemon Essential Oil does have a photosensitivity warning.If contact with skin occurs, avoid direct sunlight or UV rays for up to 12 hours. Have a wonderful summer and thanks for stopping by!

• I am allergic to Shea and Cocoa butter. What can I use in place of those?

  • Hello Shannon. We have never experimented with the recipe to see what other ingredients could be used to create a similar product. Feel free to look online for other recipes for lotion bars that do not contain these ingredients. Let us know if you find anything, so we can be sure to share it with others that may be allergic. Hope that helps and thanks for stopping by on the blog!

    • Hazel nut oil has similar wellness properties to Shea butter I wonder if that would work. The nice thing is that if it doesn't set up you can put it back in the measuring cup or double boiler melt it again. and add more wax. If you try it I would really like to know how it worked.

• They make it look so easy but mine looks yellow and still very soft... what do I do to get them out of mold?

  thank you

  • Hello Lucy! We used silicone molds, so it was easy to slip them out. It depends on what molds you used, but I suggest that you make sure the bars are solid before trying to remove them. It would help to even put them into the fridge or a cold area so they solidify. Then it should be easier to remove the bars from the mold without ruining the shape of the bars. Hope that helps!

    • Hello Lucy - some of my recipes using beeswax did not turn out because I was using inferior beeswax. I suggest it be yellow and smell like honey. Also it is best if you leave it in the molds for three days. Hope that helps. Blessings!

      • Rene

        they turned out and smells great but used the wrong type mold.. I now have silicone molds... I actually ended up putting them in freezer for easier removal...
        I want to know what made their product white and mine is yellow...
        thank you