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Why Make Your Own Organic Lotions?

Sometimes the best way to know for sure that you are using truly organic lotions is to make them yourself. This isn’t as hard or complicated as it sounds. For a fraction of the money of “store bought” you can make organic lotions right in your own kitchen or bathroom. You control the ingredients so you can be sure they have no harmful chemicals or ingredients. You will save so much money that you can generously use your home-made organic lotions for your face, hands, body, and feet without shelling out enormous amounts of money. Also, once you have created your first batch or two, you’ll be increasing the amounts you make at one time so you can give away bottles and jars of your handmade organic lotions as gifts. As word gets around, you’ll even be able to sell your product, helping you to make more for yourself!

 

There are good reasons to make your own organic lotions. Any substance you apply to your skin, such as cosmetics, creams, moisturizers, and lotions will be absorbed into your body. Not only are your heart, liver and lungs organs of your body but your skin is also an organ. In fact, your skin is the largest organ of your body, so it has lots of area which can absorb substances which come in contact with it. Because the skin is an effective vehicle for the absorption of substances into your body, the pharmaceutical/medical profession takes advantage of this by making medications specifically designed to be absorbed through the skin.

 

Read the labels on every product you purchase to put on your skin. You will see lots of long, strange words, such as para-hydroxybenzoic acids,  (parabens), triethanolamine, and stearalkonium chloride that you can barely read or pronounce. Many of the chemicals are often preservatives that allow the product to remain on the shelf for many years or months without “going bad”. The parabens (Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben, and Ethylparaben) often cause allergic reactions and rashes. Organic lotions don’t do that.

 

You also want to avoid products containing petroleum or petrolatum. Do you recognize any part of those words? Petrol —– that is what fuel (gasoline or diesel) is called in other countries. It is derived from oil. You are putting a black crude oil product on your skin. It is oil, but instead of being beneficial to your skin, it dries the skin out. Exactly the opposite of what lotions should do!

 

We will cover some basics to making your organic lotions in another article. It really isn’t as hard as you think!

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