Love your feet with this easy to make recipe created from rich, skin loving ingredients sure to tackle even the worst feet. Also try it on achy, tired legs!
Lavender & Peppermint Foot Cream
Ingredients:
1/8 Cup Cocoa Butter
1/2 teaspoon Beeswax
1 1/8 Cup Refined Shea Butter
1/4 Cup Aloe Butter
1/8 Cup Avocado Oil
1/8 Cup Liquid Vegetable Glycerin
1 Tablespoon Vitamin E Oil
1 teaspoon Tea Tree Oil
1 1/2 Tablespoons Lavender or Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil
1 teaspoon Peppermint Essential Oil
1 Tablespoon Mountain Rose Herbs Restorative Skin Oil
1/2 teaspoon Beeswax
1 1/8 Cup Refined Shea Butter
1/4 Cup Aloe Butter
1/8 Cup Avocado Oil
1/8 Cup Liquid Vegetable Glycerin
1 Tablespoon Vitamin E Oil
1 teaspoon Tea Tree Oil
1 1/2 Tablespoons Lavender or Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil
1 teaspoon Peppermint Essential Oil
1 Tablespoon Mountain Rose Herbs Restorative Skin Oil
Instructions:
Melt the butters and beeswax over low heat on the stove or at half power in the microwave just until melted. Mix well, then stir in the remaining ingredients. Whip in a blender or using a hand blender. Pour evenly into four 4oz. plastic or glass jars. Allow to cool and harden completely, about two days. For a thicker cream, double your amounts of cocoa butter and/or beeswax.
For a cooling sensation in your foot cream, add menthol crystals.
Ingredients for this project can be purchased from Mountain Rose Herbs.
Ingredients for this project can be purchased from Mountain Rose Herbs.
This looks awesome! Right now I have cocoa butter lotion (from Cost Plus) and wool socks over my feet, they are so painfully dry…..this lotion would be perfect!
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Oh my goodness that looks amazing…so soothing and fresh. Thanks for sharing how it’s done!
this looks great and so easy to make! I will definitely make this one fo these days and I am sure that my feet will surely thank me! ^^) have a lovely weekend!
Hi, how long can a bottle be stored?
If all of your oils are fresh, I’d max the shelf life at the longest shelf life for your oils. 9-12 months.
Where could you get all of these ingredients?
Mountain Rose Herbs
Does this need to be stored in the frig? Looks great but I saw no preservative added and just needed you to clarify for me. Thanks.
No, it doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge. There are not preservatives, but they are not needed as there is not water in this recipe. You’d just want to keep it out of extreme heat.
Hi,
i have made the foot lotion – but it is quite runny and not white -
what does it look like in a few days (ive just made it) and i have put the liquid in glass jars – should i leave room at the top as it gets more when it is more solid i presume???
thank you – i love all the ingredients, but would love to know what the finished product looks like – as i thought it would be like the photo!
Hi its me from above,
and the cream is set this morning and more whitish and so absolutly lovely on my feet…..thank you for this wonderful recipe.
I am going to make these for christmas gifts but did not find the aloe butter on mountain herb rose website. any other locations to find that ingredient?
You can make your own aloe butter by combing shea butter with aloe gel.