Honey Cream

Here is the recipe for the ONLY cream/lotion that I can use on my son's eczema. Nearly every other lotion or cream we have tried either stings or turns his skin red.

My recipe for the cream is very simple:



Recipe

1/3 c Beeswax
1/2 c. Olive oil, cold pressed or Coconut oil
3 T. Honey, preferably raw
20 drops Lavender essential oil


In a double boiler, melt about 1/3 c. beeswax. Add honey. Mix well. Add olive oil. Mix well. Remove from heat. Add lavender oil and whisk all ingredients. Pour into a glass jar and stir/scrape edge until the cream has cooled enough to be a thick consistency and no longer separates. Refrigerate.

Tips:
Using short little extra wide mouth glass canning jars are my first choice. They are easy to stir and get into when you are applying cream.

Eyeball the ingredients since it gets really messy when you try to measure (esp beeswax) when its hot...

Play with  amounts of the ingredients depending on whether you want the cream to be easier to apply or thicker for a better barrier.

Make sure that you continue scraping the edges and stiring until the cream has cooled and thickened or you will get little lumps in your cream. It takes some practice, so give yourself a bit of slack if it doesn't come out well the first few times. Keep trying.

For some reason the cream helps my sons eczema tremendously, but immediately after I apply it, it makes him itchy for a few minutes. Not sure if this will happen for you... After that short lived itch, it is the best moisture barrier!  I also use it on my lips... as a fabulous chapstick!

The original recipe calls for equal parts honey, beeswax and olive oil, but I like it better with the above amounts, but here is the link for the original recipe which I found from Bastyr.