If you’ve always wanted to pamper yourself with homemade lotions, oils, butters, and scrubs for your body but never felt bold enough, we’ve got you covered. Body care products aren’t hard to make once you get the hang of it.
We have the best recipes, and the ingredients won’t break the bank. Once you try them out, you’ll never go back to store-bought products. Convenience isn’t worth your skin’s health.
Here are 25 body care recipes you can make to improve the appearance and health of your skin.
Body Scrubs for Glowing Skin
Skincare isn’t complete without exfoliation. Your regimen should include body scrubs, and we have a bevy of recipes that use simple ingredients to prep your skin for lotions, oils, and butters.
All exfoliants leave your skin soft and renewed because they get rid of dead cells and improve its ability to retain moisture. Our recipe adds antioxidants to the exfoliating agent to nurture the skin as you apply the scrub, leaving it glowing.
Get the recipe here: How To Make A Homemade Body Scrub For Glowing Skin
Brown Sugar Body Scrubs for Silky Skin
Brown sugar is ideal for body scrubs because of its texture. When you mix it with honey, you partake in the latter’s natural goodness and antibacterial properties.
After you exfoliate with this simple recipe, your skin will benefit from the soothing and moisturizing properties of honey powder, which is easier to use in a scrub than actual honey. This recipe also moisturizes your skin with sunflower oil, leaving it soft and supple.
Get the recipe here: Make Luxurious Brown Sugar Scrub Recipes For Silky Skin
Salt Scrub Recipes for Radiant Skin
Salt is wonderful for exfoliation, but you have to mix it with nourishing oil, like coconut or sweet almond, to exfoliate the skin gently. There are other beneficial ingredients in our salt recipe, including vitamin E, which makes the skin hydrated, and lemon peel powder, which gives it a zesty fragrance you can’t get enough of.
You can use this recipe on any part of your body. Your skin will thank you!
Get the recipe here: Create Radiant Skin With 6 Salt Scrub Recipes
Coffee Scrub for the Right Morning Start
If you love coffee, you’ll be happy to hear you can use this wonder ingredient in a refreshing scrub each morning right before your shower. Combining ground coffee, brown sugar, and sweet almond oil, this recipe gently exfoliates the skin and provides it with the minerals it needs to look fantastic.
Use it regularly, and your skin will keep its youthful appearance longer and feel renewed from within.
Get the recipe here: Morning Glory – A DIY Coffee Scrub For Body
Fragrant Lavender Sugar Scrub
We’ve already established that scrubs are an essential step in your beauty regimen. However, why not use a scrub that’s a delight for all your senses? This fragrant recipe combines jojoba oil with white sugar and lavender essential oil and smells divine.
To make it even more fragrant, you can add dried lavender buds, which will also gently exfoliate your skin. If you’re not a fan of lavender, you can use sweet orange, mint, or rose essential oils.
Get the recipe here: Lavender Sugar Scrub Recipe – A Delight For Your Senses
Brown Sugar and Orange Dry Skin Scrub
If you have dry skin, you probably think you shouldn’t exfoliate it because it will get drier and irritated. Some scrubs may have that effect on your skin, but not our brown sugar and orange recipe, which we created specifically for your needs.
To respect the needs of dry skin, this recipe uses rich sweet almond oil and gentle Rapadura sugar. It also uses naturally soothing ground oats to ensure your skin doesn’t get irritated.
Get the recipe here: A DIY Body Scrub For Dry Skin
Ocean Breeze Sea Salt Scrub
Sea salt and Ocean Breeze fragrance oil combine in this recipe to give you a nourishing scrub that makes you feel like you’re in your favorite holiday destination. To nourish the skin, this scrub also includes seaweed extract, which is rich in the minerals your skin craves.
However, sea salt is the star of the show here, keeping your skin smooth, clean, and free from bacteria. It’s also perfect for removing dead cells and letting your body breathe.
Get the recipe here: Ocean Breeze Revitalizing Sea Salt Scrub
Kiwi Foot Scrub
If you’ve never exfoliated your feet and heels, don’t wait any longer. Your sensitive skin will reward you. You’ll have great-looking feet to show off in your favorite summer sandals when you use this Kiwi foot scrub.
It mixes poppy seeds, fine sea salt, Epsom salts, baking soda, and bentonite or Kaolin clay to form a paste that eliminates the dead skin easily. While our foot scrub smells divine and keeps your feet clean, it won’t eliminate fungal infections, so you should see a doctor about them.
Get the recipe here: Kiwi Burst – A DIY Foot Scrub
Strawberry Jam Body Scrub
This recipe is another deliciously smelling body scrub that uses Himalayan pink sea salt, strawberry seed oil, vitamin E, and strawberry fragrance oil for a double punch of fragrance. Like our foot scrub recipe, it uses poppy seeds to gently exfoliate the skin.
Use mica or beetroot powder to give this body scrub a beautiful, vibrant color that rivals its fragrance, and you’ll have a visually pleasing and effective scrub, even for sensitive skin.
Get the recipe here: Strawberry Jam Body Scrub
Dry Skin Hand Cream
Once we exfoliate the skin, we’re ready to hydrate and moisturize it. Many people have very dry skin on their hands from frequent washing. With that in mind, we came up with a nourishing hand cream that combines cocoa and shea butter, nourishing sweet almond oil, and beeswax to create a barrier that holds the moisture in.
You can use an essential oil of your choice (I went with lavender) to make this hand cream smell amazing.
Get the recipe here: DIY Hand Cream For Cracked & Dry Skin
Body Butters for Glowing Skin
Body butter is incredibly hydrating and goes beyond a lotion to give your skin the nutrition you normally associate with going to the spa. Body butters don’t use water, so their hydrating power is driven by oils, making them ideal for dry skin.
Our simple body butter recipe uses the best ingredients to care for dry skin: shea butter, sweet almond oil, and vitamin E oil. Once you add your favorite essential oils (we suggest neroli, rose, and grapefruit), you have a rich butter that leaves your skin feeling like it’s been covered in clouds.
Get the recipe here: 7 Lovely DIY Body Butter Recipes For Glowing Skin
Chocolate and Peppermint Body Butter
This body butter is emulsified, which means that it feels extra creamy and makes your skin super soft. Moreover, it combines the amazingly soothing smells of chocolate and peppermint for an After Eight chocolate effect — except on your skin.
We use glycerine, cocoa butter, apricot kernel and jojoba oil, and chocolate and peppermint fragrance oils to get this luscious, nourishing emulsion that feels creamier than anything you’ve ever tried.
Get the recipe here: Emulsified Body Butter Recipe With Chocolate & Peppermint
Whipped Shea Body Butter
Whipping body butter makes it feel less heavy without losing its hydrating properties. It’s the perfect technique for body butter for people with normal or oily skin.
Besides whipping shea butter, we also include some light oils, like grapeseed and peach kernel oil, in this light yet powerful recipe. To further reduce that body butter greasy feeling, we’re also including arrowroot powder. The result is creamy and easily absorbed into the skin.
Get the recipe here: Creamy Whipped Shea Body Butter With Lavender – Better Than Shop-Bought
Non-Greasy Lemon Body Butter
If you love the idea of body butter but find most of them too greasy, this one’s for you. Not everyone needs an emulsified body butter, like our previous recipe. Those with normal skin would greatly benefit from this lemon body butter.
Combining mango butter and camellia seed oil, this body butter is light and doesn’t leave a greasy film on your skin. Instead, it absorbs into the skin, leaving it soft and glowing.
Get the recipe here: Non-Greasy Lemon Body Butter Recipe
Hydrating Mango Body Butter
If you have dry skin patches on your knees or elbows, this unwhipped body butter is perfect for you. It’s a dense moisturizer that delivers moisture where it’s most needed. Although it shares ingredients with our whipped body butter, it’s a lot more solid, and a little goes a long way.
Besides mango butter, the recipe uses avocado and argan oils, which are perfect for reviving very dry skin.
Get the recipe here: Intensely Hydrating Mango Body Butter Recipe – Unwhipped
Carrot-Infused Body Butter
Carrots can make your body butter look amazing. In this recipe, we use carrot macerated oil, which is not the same as carrot seed essential oil. Instead, it’s a vegetable oil infused with carrots, which give it a beautiful bright yellow or orange color.
Add this colorful oil to shea and mango butter and your favorite essential oil combination — we suggest sandalwood, patchouli, and geranium essential oils — and bring a little sunshine into your life, especially during the dreary winter months.
Get the recipe here: How To Make Carrot-Infused Body Butter
Raspberry Body Butter
This recipe is another whipped body butter that uses raspberries to make you smell amazing. You can make this simple recipe stand out with raspberry fragrance oil, which has a stronger scent than essential oils. However, you can still use essential oils or a different fragrance if you’re not a fan of raspberries.
Shea butter and coconut oil are the stars of this recipe. We told you it was dead simple!
Get the recipe here: A Lovely Whipped Body Butter Recipe With Raspberry
Luxury Body Lotion
This body lotion feels exquisite on your skin without paying top dollar at the store. It uses shea butter and luxurious oils and only adds essential oils for fragrance. Making your own lotion helps you save money, control ingredients, and immediately replenish your lotion when you run out.
Glycerine, sweet almond and jojoba oils, and shea butter form the base of this lotion, while lavender oil makes it smell clean and fresh.
Get the recipe here: Luxury Homemade Body Lotion Recipe Without The Expensive Price Tag
Body Lotion for Dry or Mature Skin
If you have mature skin, you know it needs a richer lotion to stay hydrated. Our recipe is great for dry and mature skin types because the ingredients it uses work as hydrating and anti-aging agents.
We use rice bran, macadamia nut oil, and chamomile hydrosol for a base that’s perfect for smoothing skin and reducing fine lines. These ingredients also replenish natural fatty acids our skin loses as we age. Essential oils can make this lotion smell as good as it is for your skin.
Get the recipe here: Lotion For Dry & Mature Skin
DIY Body Oil
Body oil is easy to make and takes no time. Moreover, when you make your own, you control what goes into it and how you tailor it to your skin’s particular needs. Our recipe is additive-free and has no irritants.
Because it mixes orange, frankincense, and neroli essential oils and uses non-greasy evening primrose oil as a carrier oil, it’s easily absorbed and therapeutic.
Get the recipe here: How To Make DIY Body Oil At Home
DIY Lotion Bars
Lotion bars are ideal when you travel. You can keep them in your carry-on (they’re not liquid!) and apply them whenever you feel your hands getting dry.
Our DIY lotion is simple to make and only uses three ingredients: oil, cocoa and shea butter, and beeswax. The final product looks visually pleasing and doesn’t leave your skin covered in grease. Besides, using essential or fragrance oil can make it smell amazing.
Get the recipe here: 3 Simple DIY Lotion Bar Recipes With Beeswax
Beeswax Lotion Bars
If our DIY lotion bar inspired you, try another simple beeswax solid lotion bar with this recipe. The best part about it is that you can tweak it once you learn how to make it.
The lotion bar only needs beeswax, a liquid oil, and butter. Because it’s so easy to make, you can repurpose it as a lip balm or a muscle rub. The sky is the limit when it comes to this versatile recipe, so give it a try!
Get the recipe here: A Solid Lotion Bar Recipe With Beeswax
Bonus #1: Aloe Vera Lotion for Him
Making a lotion for the special man in your life is as easy as making one for yourself. This recipe uses aloe vera, avocado and sweet almond oil, and cocoa butter to give your guy hydration and soothe his skin, preventing irritation and inflammation.
While many men don’t care about how lotion smells, you can use a combination of masculine scents — like cedarwood, bergamot, and sandalwood — to make this recipe smell amazing.
Get the recipe here: How To Make Aloe Vera Lotion For Men
Bonus #2: DIY Eczema Cream
Dry skin is unpleasant, but eczema takes the cake when it comes to dry, itchy, irritated skin. To tend to your unhappy skin, you probably use expensive creams that manage the condition without eliminating it.
So, why not try making your own cream? Our eczema cream uses gentle, natural ingredients like chamomile hydrosol and Bacuri butter to soothe your irritated skin while hydrating it. While it won’t cure eczema, it will make your skin less itchy and improve its appearance.
Get the recipe here: DIY Eczema Cream Recipe To Soothe Dry Itchy Skin
Bonus #3: Sunburn Cream
While we all try to avoid sunburn, it happens, and it’s better to be armed with a cream that soothes and calms it than to point fingers. Mistakes can happen, and all we can do is be better next time.
Our recipe uses aloe vera, which is perfect for soothing irritated, burned skin; cucumber juice, which gently rehydrates skin; and shea butter — a great moisturizer that encourages healing. Keep it on hand this summer, even if you always apply sunblock. Better safe than sorry!
Get the recipe here: DIY Cream For Easing Sunburn
Bonus #4: Essential Oil Guide & Free eBook
Here, you will find a free download and list of essential oils and their uses, along with some detailed information on more than forty of the most popular oils to explore; I have listed their properties along with pairings, substitutes, descriptions, and my recommended choice.
Let’s dive in and look at: The Essential Oil Use Guide & eBook
18 Home Remedies For Glowing Skin Using Kitchen Cupboard Ingredients
Those of us who enjoy cooking have a stocked pantry. Yet, even if you don’t cook a lot, you could have kitchen ingredients to hand that make several home remedies for glowing skin. You may have always wanted to try DIY natural recipes. From homemade masks and scrubs to soaks — the sky is the limit.
Let’s look At: 18 Home Remedies For Glowing Skin Using Kitchen Cupboard Ingredients
