Eczema Lotion Bars

Marie has terrible eczema. She has it all over all 4 limbs and her face and if I don't keep a steroid on it, then her spots will crack and bleed. I wasn't comfortable putting that much steroid cream on her so often and for such a long time but, so far, nothing else has kept it under control. We have been using aquaphor in the big blue tub and that has helped a little but we don't like it. I don't like using petroleum products on her any more than I like the steroids and I hate how it feels so greasy and slimy and gets under my fingernails. In an effort to improve her skin with safer products, tonight, I made my very own eczema lotion bars! I found some basic recipe ideas online and after researching the properties of different oils and creams, I came up with my own recipe.

Here it is:

1 part beeswax

1/2 part coffee butter

1/2 part shea butter

1/2 part avocado oil

1/2 part hemp oil

about .2 carrot seed oil

about .2 comfrey oil

.05 potassium sorbate (preservative- I may skip next time)

a squirt of flavor oil. It was supposed to be fragrance oil, but I grabbed the wrong bottle. Next time, I won't do that. I might not add any fragrance because I think it smells ok as it is. I was worried that Marie would reject the natural smell and had bought the fragrance to make her happier.

So- first, measure everything with a scale. Combine the comfrey and carrot seed oil and mix it with the potassium sorbate. This will take a while and was still grainier than I would like. I'm not sure if mixing longer would help or if I should have tried dissolving it in some water first. Then, melt the beeswax, coffee butter, and shea butter on very low heat. Stir constantly. Once everything is melted take it off the heat, add the avocado and hemp oils, stir well, and then add the carrot seed mixture. You can add colors or fragrance here if you want. It smells nasty at this point but once it solidifies, I think it smells ok. Keep stirring quickly because it doesn't take long to harden. Quickly pour everything into wherever you want to store it. I used silicone cupcake liners but a nice deodorant or other push up tube or something like that would work well too. I stuck them in the fridge for about 5 minutes and then popped them out and stored them in a jar.

I tried it on Marie and it goes on really nicely. I just rubbed it on her and it didn't leave me or her greasy. I took some before pictures and I'll know in a day or two if it actually heals her spots.
They looked like this: