Homemade Lotion Bars for Eczema

I’ve created a simple recipe for a DIY eczema lotion bar that you can make at the comfort of your home. It has only 3 ingredients, coconut oil, beeswax, and raw shea butter. It’s important to use the organic and raw (unrefined) version for each ingredient to have the highest quality possible. These homemade lotion bars for eczema are very easy to make, you can’t mess it up, simply melt and pour!

Homemade lotion bars for eczema provide relief from the discomfort of eczema, but they are great for dry skin, dry elbows and cracked feet, too. Sure, you can easily find chemical options in the market for these skin problems like cortisone, but here’s friendly advice: if you can make an all-organic alternative, do it.

This all-organic DIY eczema lotion bar isn’t that hard to make—you just need to follow a three-step procedure using three ingredients: coconut oil, beeswax, and raw shea butter.

Here’s my 3-step recipe for homemade lotion bars for eczema:

1. Melt all ingredients in a double boiler on medium to low heat.
2. Pour the mixture in a pretty mold.
3. Put the mold in the fridge for one hour.
4. Unmold and use as needed!

Homemade Lotion Bars For Eczema Ingredients:

Coconut oil

Extracted from mature coconuts, the coconut oil is an edible oil known for its skin benefits. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that protect the skin, while it also moisturizes, hydrates, and soothes dry and itchy skin. It is often used as a natural treatment for eczema.

Beeswax

As its name already implies, beeswax is a wax that comes from bees, specifically the Apis genus of honey bees. It is one of the best natural skin protectants, often added in skin products as a soothing, calming, and softening ingredient.

Raw Shea Butter

The shea butter comes from nuts that grow from the shea tree in Africa. Its raw form is yellow in color and it is widely used for cosmetics products even in ancient Egypt. It has impressive hydrating, anti-aging, healing, protecting, and moisturizing properties that are highly beneficial for the skin.

Top 5 Silicon Molds For Your DIY Eczema Lotion Bar

Whether they are for your own consumption, or gifts to your friends, or products you can sell, these homemade eczema lotion bars should look nice. You’ll definitely need pretty molds, so before you spend 5 hours scouring the internet for options, I’ll share my personal choices for top molds you can use.

If you’re aiming to have dainty-looking lotion bars with classic shapes, this pair of square and round molds with floral detailing is the perfect option for you. Each mold can create 6 lotion bars, so you can produce a dozen in one go.

But if you prefer a simpler and more straightforward design, this 10-Pack square molds is the way to go. After your DIY lotion bars hardened, they would have the words “100% Hand Made” to commemorate your hard work. This is the mold I used for this recipe, cute, right?

This set of Ellipse Silicone Soap Molds, with two sets of molds and a total of 12 mold spaces, is another classy-looking option for you. What I love about these molds are the intricate details per mold, resulting to a variety of pretty lotion bars.

For tree lovers, on the other hand, I’d suggest this Rectangular Silicone Mold with a simple but beautiful tree design.

However, if all you want is to highlight one of the ingredients—the beeswax—choose a mold with honeycomb or bee design, like these 3D Bee Honeycomb Molds. This way, your creation will look beautiful and will remain true to its ingredients.

Top 3 Homemade Lotion Bar Packaging

Another sure-fire way of making your homemade lotion bars look well-made is to package them properly and beautifully. While some of you don’t plan on selling or giving them away, the lotion bars can still look impressive on top of your dresser or wall shelves in your bathroom.

1. Floral designed Paper tapes

Wrap a label around the lotion bars using these Floral-Designed Paper Tapes for an easy way to give them a posh finished look is. Just tape or glue these labels on your handmade lotion bars for eczema, and voila—you have instant skin products you can sell.

2. Screw Top Round Steel Tins

Using tin cans is a much simpler way of covering and storing your finished product, so you may opt for these Screw Top Round Steel Tins. These durable tin-plated steel cans have smooth edges and user-friendly screw-top covers, so you can re-use them once you run out of lotion bars.

3 Printable Natural Kraft Brown Wrap Labels.

If you like the idea of wrapping a customized paper label into the bars, you can buy these Printable Natural Kraft Brown Wrap Labels. The seller provides templates for the label design, which helps your branding, too. The labels stick to any surface, so you can use them for other items aside from the lotion bars. But if you’re sending out the lotion bars through delivery services, I suggest you put them directly into boxes. This package of 50 Kraft Soap Boxes may be simple, but they are the best choice when the bars need to travel long distances.

The Origin of Eczema

Before you get too hooked on making your lotion bars look phenomenal, let me bring you back to the reason why I have created the recipe for the DIY Eczema Lotion Bar. Eczema can be a serious skin condition for many people, especially when they cannot get relief for the itch and they end up scratching their skin nonstop until it is inflamed or worse, bleeding.

According to Amy Myers MD, eczema is the external result of an internal issue of your body. So eczema isn’t actually a disease, but just a symptom of the possible disease, at least from the perspective of functional medicine.

Look at the problem inside out

So here’s a quick break down of eczema facts from Amy Myers MD. The immune system quickly responds to any threat it detects. When your body is experiencing inflammation, your immune system can overreact and may end up attacking your skin, resulting to eczema. The attack on the skin can also cause seasonal allergies and asthma, which oftentimes go hand in hand with eczema. While you can do your best to minimize the itch and dryness that eczema brings, the more effective way to address the symptoms go beyond lotions and creams for your skin.

Diet against Eczema

To maximize the benefits of these homemade lotion bars for eczema, make sure to follow Dr. Amy Myers’ suggestions for her patients with eczema: follow an anti-inflammatory diet that focuses on whole foods and organic fruits & veggies, remove high-histamine foods like tomatoes, avocados, and eggplants in your meals, and maintaining a healthy gut. Healing the gut and restoring its microbiome require you to address the overgrowth of bad bacteria and yeast by changing your eating habits. You can start by eating dairy-free yogurt, and eating fermented foods to have a healthier gut, as well as probiotics.

If you have eczema, I strongly suggest taking an appointment with a naturopath doctor to look at the problem inside out.

I hope you learned new information about eczema and you enjoyed following my recipe for homemade lotion bars for eczema.

How did your lotion bars turn out? Let me know in the comments below!