Homemade DIY Sunscreen Recipe
Servings 8 oz
Equipment
- 1 Double-boiler (I make my own with a glass bowl over a simmering pot of shallow H2O)
- 1 Mask - or just hold your shirt over your mouth as you do not want to breathe in a lot of the zinc oxide, so make sure little ones aren't hovering when you make this
- Containers - this makes approximately 8 oz
Ingredients
- 90 g Coconut Oil
- 65 g Carrier Oil - I use organic and unrefined almond oil in this recipe, but you can use jojoba oil or any other liquid carrier. You can learn more about carrier oils in this post that I wrote.
- 28.5 g Beeswax
- 27.5 g Shea Butter
- 40 g Zinc Oxide - Non-nano, uncoated zinc oxide
- 1/2 t Vitamin E
Instructions
- Place your glass bowl on your scale, hit tare.
- Add all ingredients (one-by-one, hitting tare in between) EXCEPT the zinc oxide, which you add at the end.
- Place glass bowl over pot of shallow, slightly simmering H2O. Melt ingredients completely (stir with a whisk to help it along).
- Carefully remove from stove and wipe down condensation on bowl (you do not want H2O getting into your product).
- Place bowl on scale, hit tare.
- Add zinc oxide...slowly...until you get to 40g. Again, add this slooooowly...as the zinc settles the amount will increase on your scale.
- Whisk, whisk, whisk (and whisk some more!) and then carefully pour into container of your choice.
- This will take a few minutes to set up...just walk away and leave it alone to quietly set up.
