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Burnt Sugar Shimmer Lotion

Filed Under: Lotion

Difficulty: Beginner
Time: 20 minutes
Yields: Six 2 oz. bottles

When the weather is cold and the sun is scarce, hydrating skin products are a must. This Burnt Sugar Shimmer Lotion soothes dry skin, while adding a soft sparkle that works for a wide variety of skin tones. The warm and inviting Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil lightly scents the skin with notes of coffee, smoked cedar, brown sugar and amber. As a bonus, Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil is 20% off this month! Looking for a bronzing lotion with a little more color? Check out the Beautiful Bronzing Lotion tutorial.

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Easy to make, this is a great project for beginning crafters. Simply heat the lotion base, and add fragrance and colorant. Mixing the micas with the fragrance oil helps break up any clumps, and allows the colorant to blend into the lotion smoothly. If you’d like to learn to make your own lotion base from scratch, check out this Soap Queen TV episode!

What You’ll Need:
16 oz. Aloe Lotion
4.5 mL Burnt Sugar Fragrance
1 tsp. Lip Safe Copper Mica
1/8 tsp. Cappuccino Mica
6- 2 oz. Bottles with Black Disk Tops

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 ONE: Disinfect a clean spoon and heat safe container by spritzing 99% rubbing alcohol on the surface and allowing it to air dry. Wear gloves throughout the whole process to avoid contaminating the lotion.

TWO:  Scoop the Aloe Lotion into the disinfected container, and heat in the microwave in 10 second bursts, stirring between each heating burst. Be very careful to not heat the lotion above 130°F, or the preservative can become ineffective. The lotion should become slightly more liquid and pourable.
ONETHREE: In a separate container, measure out 4.5ml (about 0.15 oz) of Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil. Add 1/8 tsp Cappuccino Mica, and 1 tsp Lip Safe Copper Shimmer Mica to the fragrance oil, and stir well. 
TWOTHREEFOUR: Add the colored fragrance oil to the warm lotion, and stir to combine.
FOURFIVEFOUR: Carefully pour the lotion into 2 oz bottles, to just at the shoulder of the bottle. Allow the lotion to cool without a lid for 2 hours before capping and enjoy!
SIXFinalSquare_500pxHow do you keep your skin comfortable during the harsh winter weather? I have been loving the Pumpkin Spice Latte Scrub, followed by this lotion recipe. The scents blend wonderfully!

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Burnt Sugar Shimmer Lotion
 
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This lotion gives skin hydration, along with a soft shimmer.
Recipe type: Lotion

Ingredients
  • 16 oz. Aloe Lotion
  • 4.5 mL Burnt Sugar Fragrance
  • 1 tsp. Lip Safe Copper Mica
  • ⅛ tsp. Cappuccino Mica
  • 6- 2 oz. Bottles with Black Disk Tops

Instructions
  1. Disinfect a clean spoon and heat safe container by spritzing 99% rubbing alcohol on the surface and allowing it to air dry. Wear gloves throughout the whole process to avoid contaminating the lotion.
  2. Scoop the Aloe Lotion into the disinfected container, and heat in the microwave in 10 second bursts, stirring between each heating burst. Be very careful to not heat the lotion above 115°F, or the preservative can become ineffective. The lotion should become slightly more liquid and pourable.
  3. In a seperate container, measure out 4.5ml (about 0.15 oz) of Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil. Add ⅛ tsp Cappuccino Mica, and 1 tsp Lip Safe Copper Shimmer Mica to the fragrance oil, and stir well.
  4. Add the colored fragrance oil to the warm lotion, and stir to combine.
  5. Carefully pour the lotion into 2 oz bottles, to just at the shoulder of the bottle. Allow the lotion to cool without a lid for 2 hours before capping and enjoy!

 

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15 Comments

  1. hi can i add some extra verging coconut oil to this recipe,and how do i make more like for 4oz bottles and 6 or 8oz bottles and how far does the 1 oz mica go as far as how much product can you make?,please let me know asap,thank you dawn

  2. How to not use dies or food coloring in lotions or shampoo body wash ect. I would like to use Oxides in lotion I dont want an bronzer or shimmer Just want to color natually with pigments .

  3. This looks great!
    Could you please recommend another fragrance or fragrance blend that would be gentle on the nose?

  4. I made this recipe exactly as printed, and it seemed that there were areas of separation in the bottles, even with a lot of tapping down to make things even. I decided to shake all of the product out to re-stir, even adding a little more of the aloe lotion. In the bowl it seemed homogeneous. Once poured however, I experienced the same thing. It looks like pockets of FO and streaks of color. Haven’t tried it yet, but am wondering if it will be sellable. Any ideas of what happened or how to correct it?

    • Hi Lee!

      Oh no, I’m sorry that lotion is separating on you! We recommend heating the lotion gently, as that helps the fragrance and color stir in more easily. If you did that and it’s still separating on you, you can stick blend it for several minutes. That will help everything stay together nicely. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  6. I find some of these recipes misleading….
    Under “What You Need” and under “Ingredients” it states 2 oz of FO and 1 oz of each mica….but the “real recipe/ingredients” – that is the instructions say use .15 oz of FO and 1/8 & 1 tsp of the mica.
    You don’t “need” 2 oz of FO and the “Ingredients” is Not 2 oz of FO….
    Why has this changed?
    I can understand where you might buy the ingredients in those amounts, but the totals are not the recipe. (Imagine a cake recipe saying that you Need 5 lbs of flour.)
    Maybe I’m just old school….but to me it would make more sense to say upfront what the real ingredients/recipe is, instead of having to dig through the description. Fortunately, this is obviously nonsensical to use 2 oz of mica….but what if you were making something that typically required 1.5 oz of something – you see the recipe, you know by heart how to make the product and dump in the 2 oz that the recipe requires…..might not turn out as planned (like dumping 1 or 2 full oz of mica in – Yikes!!)

    • Hi Sylvia!

      Thank you so much for catching that for us! It looks like what was listed was what comes with the kit. I am so sorry about any confusion! I’ll update the blog post with the exact measurements needed for this recipe. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry