The Greatest Peach Body Cream

When I have about 20-30 minutes available to play in the blog kitchen, I love to make lotions. It is a fun and quick project that replenishes my lotion & creams stash, allows me to help make sure my “guinea pig” (one of our programmers) has moisturized arms, and permits me to make what suits my needs at the moment.

I decided to make this body cream that isn’t exactly what I’d call light or medium weight, but more of an in-between weight. It has a slight drag from the Stearic Acid and Cocoa Butter, but doesn’t make my skin feel like it is smothered.

Did you know Peach Fragrance has been in our catalog for 19 years? It is a winner with a long history of success. Before we know it – we will be in peach season!

Join me in the kitchen for a quick batch of body cream that will feel fabulous on arms, elbows, legs, knees and feet! I think you will enjoy the greatest peach body cream as much as I do.

Ingredients Water Apricot Kernel Oil Squalane Emulsifying Wax Sweet Almond Oil Stearic Acid Regular Cocoa Butter Hydrovance Liquid Germall Plus Peach Fragrance Oil Purple Raspberry Lemon Yellow

Equipment Scale Microwave Safe Container Spoons Pipettes Containers (I would recommend a jar like the 4 oz Straight Base Jars with a 70 mm Lid)

Recipe: Makes approximately 16 oz

Recipe in Grams 348.5 grams water 38.7 grams Apricot Kernel Oil 21.8 grams Squalane 19.4 grams Emulsifying Wax 19.4 grams Sweet Almond Oil 12.1 grams Stearic Acid 9.7 grams Regular Cocoa Butter 9.7 grams Hydrovance 2.4 grams Liquid Germall Plus 2.4 grams Peach Fragrance Oil Q.S. Purple Raspberry Q.S. Lemon Yellow

Recipe in Ounces 11.52 ounces water 1.28 ounces Apricot Kernel Oil 0.72 ounces Squalane 0.64 ounces Emulsifying Wax 0.64 ounces Sweet Almond Oil 0.40 ounces Stearic Acid 0.32 ounces Regular Cocoa Butter 0.32 ounces Hydrovance 0.08 ounces Liquid Germall Plus 0.08 ounces Peach Fragrance Oil Q.S. Purple Raspberry Q.S. Lemon Yellow

Recipe in Percentages 72% water 8% Apricot Kernel Oil 4.5% Squalane 4% Emulsifying Wax 4% Sweet Almond Oil 2.5% Stearic Acid 2% Regular Cocoa Butter 2% Hydrovance 0.5% Liquid Germall Plus 0.5% Peach Fragrance Oil Q.S. Purple Raspberry Q.S. Lemon Yellow

Q.S. means quantity sufficient. I added a few drops of a premixed color until I felt there was enough color to give the body cream a pretty peach tint. To get my premixed color, I mixed the Purple Raspberry and Lemon Yellow in water to get my orange/peach color. I used 2 parts Purple Raspberry and 3 parts Lemon Yellow.

Weighing the oils.

After adding the water to the beaker.

Weigh everything except the Liquid Germall Plus, Peach Fragrance and premixed color into a microwave safe container. Heat gently until the oils and waxes are liquid. Using an immersion blender, stir the mixture well. We don’t want the cream to separate on us! Once the cream is below 120°F, add the Liquid Germall Plus, Peach Fragrance and premixed color. At this point, I like to pour the cream into a plastic bag and allow it to finish cooling in the bag.

After microwaving the ingredients, I’m ready to blend.

Starting to blend the ingredients together.

After the cream has completely cooled, I cut a small tip off one corner of the bag so I can easily pipe the cream into jars. (I also get to make pretty swirls as I’m piping because I’m pretending to frost cupcakes!) After the jars are filled, cap the jars and label. You now have a jar of the greatest peach lotion!

Adding the color, Liquid Germall Plus and Peach Fragrance.

After thoroughly mixing in the color, Liquid Germall Plus and Peach Fragrance.

Notes: This cream has a nice feel on the skin with a slight waxy feel that quickly goes away. Our shipping team loved the feel on their arms, but said they wouldn’t apply right before packing boxes or handling paper. The Cocoa Butter adds such a minimal amount of scent, so feel free to scent with any fragrance or essential oil.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!