When I was a kid, I just loved Dreamsicles. Well, I still do. We have a local ice cream shop here – a small neighborhood stand with just outdoor seating and a limited menu. If you are looking for a variety of flavors with fancy smancy toppings, this is not your place. In addition to hamburgers and other grill offerings, they serve chocolate and vanilla soft serve. This small shop opens May 1 and closes sometime in October. Every week they post the flavor of the week on their portable sign out front. When they post ORANGE, hubby and I drop by several times to get one of those orange and vanilla swirls that remind me of dreamsicles and my childhood.
Yum! Can’t wait until May 1!
I’ve been looking for a face lotion to replace the one I currently spend big bucks on. I wanted something very light. Being a recent follower of The Sage blog I started looking through some of her older posts and found a recipe for a light facial cream. I hoped it was the consistency I desired. However, I was hesitant because I had made other “light” lotions that were too heavy and greasy. Now I needed to gather all of the ingredients.
Getting ready to make lotion is so much easier than preparing to make soap. For lotion, I don’t need to cover the counter or have adult supervision! However, I still need to use our trusty scale to measure all of the ingredients.
When I make a recipe for the first time I try to make it the same as listed. However, I ended up not having everything so I made a couple substitutions. I substituted an extra 5 grams of apricot kernel oil for the aloe extract. Since I had some aloe water on hand, I substituted 56 grams of the water with aloe water. As a preservative I used 2.5 grams of Liquid Germall Plus instead of Germaben II. In her recipe she listed essential or fragrance oil as optional. I made the creamsicle blend from their scent blend recipes which is one part Vanilla Cream fragrance oil to two parts Orange essential oil.
Following her directions I melted all of the ingredients in the microwave except the preservative and the fragrance. After everything was melted I used my stick blender. I was getting kind of worried since it didn’t seem to thicken. But then I took a deep breath and all of a sudden, it was lotion!
Then I added the preservative and the fragrance blend! Yum! Smells just like a dreamsicle. The lotion is so light and so similar in feel to my expensive lotion. This recipe is a keeper.
I love making our own personal care products. I like knowing what is in the soap we use and the lotion I put on my face. Now to decide what I’ll make next!
That looks fantastic Lynda, perfect consistency! I’ve been meaning to make lotion for some time and even bought some ingredients but haven’t gotten around to really reading into it.
I’d love to see what you make next 🙂
Kristina, It was fun and it is the perfect consistency I’ve been looking for.
I haven’t tried making lotion yet, but I love dreamsicles too! (Although I recall calling them “creamsicles” and they were popsicles filled with vanilla ice cream.) This might be the recipe for me.
Congratulations on winning a MMS Perfumer’s Kit! You post made me laugh!
Andee
Andee, I’m so excited!! You made my day. Glad I could make you laugh. And talking about dreamsicles, the ice cream shop is open and their first flavor was …. orange so we’ve already had a couple dreamsicles. Also, hubby has used this lotion on his arms. Makes him smell sooo good!
Wow! This looks like so much fun! Just reading your post reminds us of those good old “50/50 bars”! (That’s what they used to call them “way back when” ;-D )
Thanks for showing us what you did with your substitutions as well. Very helpful for newbie lotionmakers like us!
Congratulations on your MMS win, and continued crafting success to you!
I should have offered you a Dreamsicle while you were here instead of a beverage! I love Dreamsicles too. I used to get a scoop of Orange Sherbet and Pralines and Cream at Baskin Robbins to create my own. I would spit out the nuts!
Chris, I would have taken a dreamsicle for sure!! Thanks for the interview and for dropping by my blog. Enjoy your trip!
Where do you get your plastic bottles for the lotions? I try to be very careful which plastics I use.
Doris, I bought those from The Sage.