How to Make Lotion

A Very basic lotion to use as a base for Cannabis Pain Lotion, Dynamint Cream or other lovely things. Not the most luxurious, but an excellent starting point

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Prep Time 30

Active Time 15

Total Time 45

Type DIY

Yields oz

Equipment

Wide mouth pint jar

Ingredients

7 grams beeswax, grated, finely chopped or pastiles
100 grams liquid oil see notes
135 grams boiled water

Instructions

Measure your beeswax and oil in a pint jar on a digital scale. Put in a heavy bottom pot with a couple inches of water on medium low heat to melt the beeswax. You want to JUST melt the beeswax, so dont rush it or boil the water, just gentle steaming and maybe a few little bubbles in the pot of water. Stir a few times as it melts. Take out of the pot when there is still a few small chunks of beeswax left.
While the oil/wax is melting, boil some water. You're going to need about ⅔ of a cup, so start with more (I just boil my kettle).
After the water boils, zero out a wide mouth pint jar on a digital scale, and pour in water to get to 135 grams.
Your goal is for the water and oil/wax mix to feel in a similar temperature range. You could measure the temp with an instant read thermometer- and aim for 100-120F, but I prefer to just feel the jars. Do they both feel like a warm to hot cup of tea? Can you hold your finger in without it getting too hot? Let them cool if needed, pop one jar into the double boiler again if it gets too cold, this is the only finicky part in my opinion.
When they're ready, pour the water into the oil/wax jar. Put your immersion blender in the bottom of the jar, and turn it on. Allow it to whir for about 10 seconds, you'll want the bottom of the jar to be emulsified and look white not separated oil and water, before you raise the immersion blender. Blend to fully emulsify.
As the lotion cools, every 5-10 minutes blend it a bit again so that it stays emulsified as it cools.
If your batch separates, just melt it all again in the double boiler and reblend, making sure to give it a blitz with the immersion blender every 5-10 minutes as it cools.
Because this has no preservatives, and your household temps are all different, plus so many other factors...it's recommended you keep this in the fridge.

Video

Notes

For Cannabis Topical Pain Cream, theres going to need to be some playing around done. I cant tell you the strength of your cannabis, nor what you need for your pain. In the infusing oil video AND lotion making video, I talk more about how to figure this out, and its best you listen there to help guide you on making your own.
For more info on properties of oils and preservatives, I highly recommend Jan Berrys book 101 Easy Homemade DIY's.
You can get into fancy cosmetic oils that are luxurious...but come with a higher price tag. Figure out what youre willing to spend, maybe start with what you have on hand...and experiment from there!

For infusing

This is the fun part! Do you have medicinal herbs in your garden, yard or forest around you? I bet you do! Learn about whats growing and infuse herbs like calendula, plantain, arnica, roses...you'd be surprised whats growing around you.