DIY Personal Care Party
Wednesday night last week* we gathered to make our own deodorant, lip balm and body scrub. We had a great turnout (with 7 first-timers showing up) and we’ve already heard comments from a few attendees that yes, it’s true, the deodorant really does work- if you’ve ever tried finding a ‘natural’ deodorant that works you’ll understand our cynicism.
As is typical of our events there was interesting conversation, tasty treats and in this case, great teamwork. Many people brought essential oils to share which offered a huge variety of fancy smells to create. Where space was available people squeezed in to zest lemon, melt ingredients and/or help bring it all together.
If you’ve been curious about or interested in making homemade versions of other household or personal care products leave a note in the comments section and we may just end up hosting another of these to make more goodies.
Thanks to everyone who attended, for a fun and pleasant evening.
Without further ado, here are the recipes:
- 3 T shea butter
- 3 T baking soda
- 2 T corn starch
- 2 T cocoa butter
- 2 vitamin e oil gel caps (puncture and squeeze out oil)
- essential oil
Stir and melt the butters together then add baking soda, corn starch and vitamin e oil. We made a huge batch and then poured the mix into individual jars. Each person then customized their deodorant with the plethora of essential oils that were brought to share.
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 T lemon zest
Mix together, scoop into jar, top with lid. Enjoy.
Lip Balm
I was given a great recipe by a friend but when it came time to make the lip balm I couldn’t find where I had safely stored the coconut oil I purchased. So, thanks to the internet we came across this general formula and winged it.
- 20% beeswax
- 25% shea butter
- 15% cocoa butter
- 40% olive oil
- and just a teensy honey
*Also, please let me apologize for the delay in getting this post up. My computer crashed and also took with it many of the pictures taken at the party. I was able to get a few my husband took.
I don’t know what substitution we made for the cocoa butter in the lip gloss, but mine smells like chocolate. Has anyone else noticed that in their lip balm? Yum.
I would be interested in going to another one of these type of parties and maybe make the deoderant again and a few other types of things. Thanks for posting the recipes and hosting the party- it was really fun and what a great group of people.
Mariah, it smells like chocolate because we did use cocoa butter- it was the coconut oil that we couldn’t locate and had to find a work-around for. Glad you like the chocolate smell.
Monique, I really do hope you host another one of these parties, because I was sad that I was out of town and missed it! Do you know anything about making perfumes? I’ve never personally tried, but thought it could be fun and figured you must be the person to ask!
Katelyn, I would be happy to host another of these parties if there is continued interest. The deodorant was definitely the most popular item and I’m wanting to know what other things people are interested in. I’ll have to look into scents….