One of the best parts of sustainable living is learning to create things for yourself instead of buying them. It allows you to avoid materials and ingredients that are harmful to your family or the planet — and it’s also very satisfying personally. One of my favorite creations of the past few years has been this body lotion.
Why Homemade Lotion?
I started looking at making my own lotion after exhausting myself reading labels, trying to wade through paragraph-long ingredient lists in an attempt to decipher if the lotion was safe to put on my skin.
Why did I bother? Well, much of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our bodies. What the skin doesn’t absorb can enter our waterways when we wash it off — where it can pollute water supplies and harm wildlife. In many commercially produced lotions, you’ll find potentially harmful ingredients like diethyl phthalate, propylene…