Lilac Vanilla Body Lotion

The grey seems to permeate everywhere lately… From the barn yard and the sky to the stock market and consumer confidence. Yesterday it snowed. Which was weird given how devoid of snow the last few years have been. I can’t help thinking about all the stuff being passed right now by our government to pollute our water and climate. I feel sick about it. Emotionally the gray spreads. But like Molly Brown, I ain’t down yet! There are some things that don’t belong to anyone except me. One of those things is my mind and my mood. How I feel is my choice to make. The gray can certainly have an impact if I let it eat me up like The Nothing once ate Fantasia. But I am not going to let it. Even when it is icky and I need to start getting things cleaned up and prepped for spring planting. I’ll get there. In the mean time, the gray and doom and gloom will not take me down. I will sit on my homestead mocking  stupid when I need to laugh, and just going through the motions of living life on a homestead farm. I am so much more alive here than I ever have been anywhere. I hold onto that vibrance, and go through the motions.

Today, had me busy from wake up till now. Sunday so I got up kinda late then made a big brunch of bran muffins with golden raisins and bacon. After that clean up was done. I followed it up with this project producing moisturizing body lotion in the new fragrance I find myself in love with for spring. An exotic, warm, slightly sexy, old fashioned, classic, cultured, floral, fragrance of vanilla and lilac.

One of my favorite parts of this project is watching my plastic bottles gradually become rather beaten up. Why I love seeing that, is because it means that something that otherwise would be destroying the ocean is being used again. They may be able to pass stuff to deregulate businesses in how they pollute. But pollution is a choice. Just because we can choose to pollute now, doesn’t mean we have to. I am proud to reuse my beat up bottles over and over and save the oceans from what carnage I can. When I see my beat up bottles, I know I have done something to save the life of the living things in the ocean, I have made the sand flats I used to walk as a child just a little more beautiful. It is an act of rebellion against the destruction of our world and those rolling back the laws that protect it. So while I realize they don’t look so nice as new bottles might… There is no big fancy beautiful label as I was making these just for me today… No one to impress. So I don’t care if my reused plastic bottles are ugly. There is larger beauty that they are helping to create by being ugly.

You will need
A large bowl
Plastic bottle with cap
A tool to get lotion from the bowl into the bottle
A wooden spoon
A spoon to put the lotion into the tool that sends it into the bottle.

Ingredients
2 cups Lotion base
1 teaspoon jojoba oil
1 table spoon olive oil
1 table spoon moringa oil
20 drops Vitamin E oil
3-5 drops frankencense essential oil
5-8 drops rose essential oil
2 teaspoons sunflower lecithin
vanilla essential oil as much as smells good to you
lilac essential oil as much as smells good to you, and can be smelled well as a top note above the vanilla.

In a large bowl pour in the base add your oils and lecithin, mix well. Then load it into the bottles. Put on the cap, wash the outside of the bottle with soap and water. Use as needed for dry skin.

I keep a bottle by every sink in the house. My skin runs rather dry so having this stuff all over the place really is nice after I wash my hands.

I hope this recipe brings you the same spring time joy it gives me.
Thank you for reading
Amanda Of Wildflower Farm