Easy 3 Ingredient Moisturizing Lotion

I love to cook and I enjoy my job (I work as a Cook), however I do not love my dry hands. We work with raw meat and seafood so unfortunately we use Antibacterial Soap. I say unfortunately because it dries the heck out of your hands! In the winter it's the worst. I come home some days with my hands so dry that they feel like sandpaper. It's not pleasant and some days quite painful. 

I've used numerous different moisturizers, lotions and body butter's but haven't found something that has it all. You know what I mean, moisturizing action, a nice scent and not greasy. That last one is important for me. Then I came across a post on Jillee's blog for Make Your Own SIMPLE Moisturizing Lotion and I thought maybe, just maybe this one will work. It's easy, anyone can make it.  You only need 3 ingredients and it has Coconut Oil! Which I only discovered in the last 6 months. Yes I know, I'm WAY behind the times! lol

Carrying on. I already had the 1 cup of Coconut Oil that the recipe called for but I had to go out and buy the Baby Lotion and Vitamin E Cream. This was apparently a harder task than I thought. The Baby Lotion I found no problem. But every time I tried to find the Vitamin E Cream they were out!! Without a word of a lie, I went 6 times over a period of 3 months and it wasn't until the last time I tried about a week ago, that I FINALLY found what I was looking for. There's a little under 1/2 a cup in a small container of Vitamin E Cream so I bought 2. In hindsight I probably should have grabbed a couple more! lol

I gathered the ingredients together along with a bowl, my electric mixer, a 1 cup measuring cup, an empty well cleaned honey bottle (figuring I would use the baby lotion bottle and the honey bottle to hold the end product) and a spatula and set to work. 

You will need:

2 cups Baby Lotion

1 cup Vitamin E Cream

1 cup Coconut Oil (in it's solid state)

A bowl for mixing.

An electric hand held mixer.

Sealable Containers to put the lotion into when it's done.

Combine the 3 ingredients in the bowl and mix until it looks similar to frosting. I kept my mixer on low which worked fine for me. 

I decided after it was finished to use the Vitamin E Cream containers as well as the now empty Coconut Oil jar and another small container that used to contain lotion to put it in. 

Then I tested it. My hands were so soft, not dry anymore, not greasy, and I like the scent as well. After trying many different products I've found one that works for me. :) 

~Kay