DIY Natural Sunscreen Recipe
A safe and healthy natural sunscreen recipe using nontoxic ingredients like coconut oil, shea butter, beeswax and non-nano zinc oxide. Safe and effective for the WHOLE family!
- Yield: Makes 2 cups 1x
Ingredients
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- 1 cup unrefined, raw shea butter or cocoa butter if you have a nut allergy
- 1/2 cup raw organic coconut oil
- 1/2 cup sweet almond oil, olive, sunflower or other similar carrier oil
- 2 tablespoons beeswax pastilles (for waterproofing, I like the tiny pastilles)
- 4 tablespoons non-nano zinc oxide (more if you want a higher SPF than 20, but it will make it SUPER thick)
- Optional – 2 tablespoons water (this makes it more thin and like real lotion. Otherwise, it’ll be thicker and like a salve.
- Optional – essential oils for fragrance like lavender, cedarwood, and frankincense – but NOT citrus oils as they attract the sun. Citronella keeps the bugs away and it would be a great addition to the sunscreen!
Instructions
- In a double boiler (or a smaller pot inside of a larger pot that has water in it), melt together the shea butter, beeswax, coconut oil and almond oil together.
- Once it all turns to liquid, let the oils cool in the fridge (I put the pot in the fridge once it returns to room temperature so I don’t have to clean more dishes)
- Once it has returned to being hard (an hour or more), whip it with a hand mixer or a standing mixer for a few minutes.
- Then, add the water, zinc oxide and optional essential oils.
- Whip for about five minutes to emulsify the ingredients.
- Scoop into a jar and you’re done!