Ecsema Fighting Lotion

How to Make an Easy Winter Hand Salve (aka Eczema Fighting Lotion)

How to Make Homemade Hand Salve (aka Eczema Fighting Lotion)

2 oz Shea Butter

.45 oz Avocado Oil

4 Vitamin E tablets (or .025 oz)

All three ingredients help with eczema.

First,  measure out the shea butter and avocado oil on digital scale then put them in my trusty Pyrex measuring cup. Put that into a pot of simmering water and let them melt together. When they were completely melted and mixed, took them off the heat and add the Vitamin E, then I let it all cool to room temperature.

The next step is to whip it up into a meringue like consistency. Do this by putting the soon-to-be-lotion into a bigger bowl and setting that bowl into a bowl filled with ice water and blending it with a stick blender. It must be cool to be able to whip up correctly. Then finished it off with a hand whip until it looked like meringue.

Put that into an old lotion container and I store it in the fridge. When needed, I pull it out and scrape off a bit with the back of your fingernail. It almost immediately melts with the heat of  hand and it’s so easy to spread on. Put this on about 2-3 times a day. This recipe is indeed fussier. 

Do you or your kids have ezcema? What have you done to help fight it off?

Source: http://asonomagarden.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/how-to-make-an-easy-winter-hand-salve-aka-eczema-fighting-lotion/