With Love From Lavender: A Do-It-Yourself Natural Hand Cream Recipe
~ by Chere Harbridge
In celebration of our authentic beauty care line, we’re posting a series of blogs featuring the organic and wild-crafted ingredients in our products. Next on our list of beautiful essential oils is Lavender. We’ve included Lavender essential oil in our Opulent Skin Drops, Skin Renewal Solution and the Bed of Roses Blush. Keep reading to learn why we’ve included the flower power of this purple princess of plants and how to make your own easy, nutrient rich hand cream. to heal and restore the health of even the driest, overworked hands.
With Love From Lavender
Lavender, Lavendula vera officinalis
Our organic lavender essential oil is grown in France and extracted from the flowers using steam distillation.
10 Things We Love About Lavender
- It calms the mind and relieves anxiety (put a few drops in your bath for instant, deep relaxation)
- It promotes healing, prevents scarring
- It helps even skin tone
- balances oil production
- Lavender works really well on minor burns or sunburn (a few drops rubbed into the skin will calm the pain and sooth inflammation)
- great for chapped lips and dry skin.
- can help stop bleeding, clean wounds and speed healing
- can be infused into the air to improve breathing and respiration
- it’s a great headache healer and can relieve muscle pain (great to put in a massage blend!)
- deters head lice!
Homemade Lavender Hand Cream
[tweet_dis]Here’s a decadent and easy hand/body lotion you can make yourself with just a few ingredients.[/tweet_dis]
Ingredients:
- 1⁄2 C Cocoa Butter
- 1⁄2 C Coconut Oil
- 5 – 10 drops Lavender Essential Oil (according to your own preference)
Directions:
Measure cocoa butter into a cup. Place the cup in a hot water bath until the butter is completely melted. Once melted, remove from heat and add coconut oil and essential oils and allow mixture to cool. Pour the cream into jar and seal. Store in the refrigerator to retain freshness. This lotion does take a few extra minutes to soak into the skin. The best way to use it is fresh out of the shower while your skin is still wet. It feels like velvet going on.
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Experience Authentic Beauty
Lavender is just one of the organic and wild-crafted botanicals we’ve infused into some of our products. Go here to find out more and to get your ‘be
you’ authentic beauty kit. We’re fed up with make-up drenched, photoshopped images of beauty and committed to showing women that there is a way to restore health, improve your natural glow and be a radiant, positive example of beauty in the world without compromising your health, confidence or budget.
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Take a ‘Home Spa Selfie’. Each week we share a new home spa treatment. Join us to pamper yourself and share your selfie on our Body Enlightenment Facebook page (every Saturday we’ll choose a winner who will be gifted with one of our ‘be you’ Authentic Beauty products.)