homemade

if you go down any internet bunny trail it's incredibly easy to become incredibly paranoid incredibly quickly.

well, i'm not that paranoid but i'm sick of everything being so complicated.

i was sick of not being able find a lotion that i liked and i didn't want to go back to using plain olive oil because cleaning olive oil drips in one's bathroom can quickly become annoying.

so i made an amazon impulse buy.  raw shea butter.

it doesn't smell as nice as cocoa butter but cocoa butter will clog pores.

it smells rather, earthy.  to be blunt, you smell like a hippie.

so i decided to get googling and i found a whipped shea butter recipe.

2 Tbsp olive oil, 10-20 drops essential oil per 4 oz. of unrefined shea butter.

i don't have a mixer so mixers aren't necessary.

i used lavender oil (it's what i had on hand) and olive oil.

next time i'm going to try a almond scent because i think it will mix better with the shea scent and i plan to use a little less oil.  i had a pound of shea so i followed the instructions exactly for olive oil per 4 oz.  i think i might decrease the oil by 2 Tbsp.  i'm also considering using neem oil next time.

next time will be a long way away.... it made a lot of body butter.

i don't know how paranoid i actually am because i still use my fancy shmancy anti-aging face creams from my old work place.  if i'm going to be a Christian half hippie i want to be the youngest looking Christian half hippie i can possibly be.