Lotion Bars

Another item in my bath/body line of products is lotion bars.  These are a hard bar of lotion, similar to a bar of soap.  You rub it between your hands or on your body and the heat from your body melts the bar and leaves the lotion behind.

I much prefer these to the typical bottle of lotion.  I use less this way--and I am not a fan of having all that lotion liquid on my hands.  I can easily tuck a lotion bar into my purse and take it with me.  I can make my lotion bar in a scent that matches my soap, bath salts, and sugar scrubs.  And when I make it myself, I know what is in it.

This is what my lotion bars look like.  Since I sell these, I make them in batches that produce 7 bars at a time.  You can adjust recipes to make just one or two at a time if you prefer.

There are numerous recipes online for lotion bars.  You can do basic bars using cheaper oils and butters or you can make luxurious bars using more expensive oils and butters.  The choice is yours when you make it yourself.

They are made using a double boiler setup.  The oils/butters/beeswax are melted in the top pot.  Scent is added if you like(I don't add colorant) and then the liquid lotion is poured into molds and allowed to cool and harden for several hours before unmolding.

You can use many different things as molds.  Some online stores sell tins for this type of use.  You can use silicon molds available in many stores--cupcake molds, tart  molds, brownie bite molds, etc. 

 

I use a 12 cavity rectangular silicon mold I bought from Amazon.  You can see them in the above picture.  My son is cleaning the molds out before we begin measuring and melting oils and butters.  In the forefront of that picture, the two Tupperware containers hold the starters for our sourdough bread.

 

 

This is a close up picture of the mold I use, placed upside down.

And here one of my lotion bars is packaged up, ready to sell.