When it comes to naturally healing skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, it’s best to arm yourself with Manuka Honey. It’s is a potent healer for any skin condition! In this post, I want to share with you a simple but effective DIY Manuka Honey Lotion recipe!
Manuka honey is the best type of honey you can buy. It’s filled with powerful antioxidants and it contains 4 times the minerals in regular honey. What’s more is that it has a stronger antibacterial effect so it’s very effective for treating a myriad of health problems.
A manuka honey lotion is a very good idea to combat skin conditions from the outside. Topically applying manuka honey on skin can fight germs, soothe redness, reduce inflammation, heal bleeding wounds and help with scarring.
DIY Manuka Honey Lotion Recipe
What you need
- ¼ cup coconut oil (where to get it)
- ½ cup shea butter (where to get it)
- 2 tsp manuka honey (where to get it)
- 10 drops lavender essential oil (where to get it)
- 1 vitamin E capsule (where to get it)
- Double boiler (where to get it)
- Hand mixer (where to get it)
- Storage jar (where to get it)
Directions
- Firs things first, gently melt down your coconut oil and shea butter in a double boiler. This will make both ingredients easy to work with as they are solid in their natural state.
- Once you’re done melting them, let the mixture cool down a bit then stir in your 2 tsp of manuka honey.
- Prick a vitamin E capsule with a safety pin carefully then squeeze out the oil into the mixture.
- Now place your mixture in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. This will make it partially solidify which facilitates easy whipping of the mixture into a lotion.
- Once then time is up, get it out and start whipping with a hand mixer until it turns white and creamy.
- When this happens, add your lavender essential oil and whip again until everything is well incorporated.
- Your DIY manuka honey lotion is ready! Scoop it up into sterilized glass jars and store in a cool dry place. It can last more than 6 months without going bad. That’s provided you don’t get any water/dirt/other contaminants into it.
- To use, get a suitable amount using clean fingers then rub it onto the affected area. Make sure the region you’re going to be applying the lotion is clean. You can also apply it on wet skin to seal in moisture.
Enjoy this incredibly healing DIY manuka honey lotion. Come share your results xoxo!
I had a really rough time getting this to mix properly the honey wanted to sink to the bottom had to wait till it was a bit cool to mix it up again, still tried to sink again. The manuka honey is a miracle never heard of it but honey from the flowers of the tea tree only makes sense that it’s good stuff. Expensive as heck but worth it, fortunately I have a Trader Joe’s not far from my house decent sized jar for under fourteen dollars. I had to ask for it at my store it is not on the shelf, perhaps one of those items that walks out the door past the check out. I have excema on my ankles and already had one infection a few months ago that needed antibiotics just had another one hit me, i refuse to do antibiotics again if I don’t have to. You can use the raw honey but it’s sticky this is a much better option and not hard to make. If you don’t own a double boiler you can wing it with a mason jar or other decently heavy jar such as a mayonnaise jar and a typical sauce pan, you don’t want the oils directly heated as this will destroy some of them. If you don’t have access to pure ready to go coconut oil and shea butter you can get lou ann coconut oil for about 4 bucks for a small jar at walmart in the grocery section and they carry a shea butter in the cosmetics section that is simply shea butter, coco butter and vitamin E, you can also find liquid vitamin E (coconut oil carrier) in the vitamin section. Admittedly not perfect and perhaps why I had a tough time with it combining properly but if you need it now and can’t wait for shipping not bad got two good sized jars for about twelve dollars other the cost of the honey (I actually put three heaping tablespoons in mine). A couple of applications and my red swollen and hot leg is now no longer hot and no longer feels as tight as it did when I woke up this morning. I’m sure taking some in your hot tea would help as well to treat from the inside as well. The excema on my ankles has never looked so good, all the nasty rough skin has sloughed off and the skin beneath looks healthy and is not itchy at all. Hopefully this remains the miracle it is right now for me. Don’t know where the damned excema came from just wish it would go away, probably in the family I think my mother may have had it as well started on fish oil to help eliminate that possible issue and use oatmeal in the bath every morning too.
Manuka honey is amazing, we love it. It has so many uses its a good all rounder that can help eczema and many other skin conditions. I will try this recipe its one iv not used before, so thank you for sharing.
Just one word of warning, make sure you Manuka honey is 100% and certified. Since its rise to fame there are a lot of cheap-poor imitations out there.
Great article.