Sometimes those taking my classes bring me gifts. Gifts are never expected but are always appreciated .. especially the ones that have special meaning . . like things people who read the blog know I collect. Homemade gifts are always special too.
Last week a lady gave me a little Glad container of homemade hand cream. This may be TMI but my feet crack . . badly! It’s probably because I hate wearing shoes and am almost always barefooted. I even have a prescription cream for my feet because they crack and bleed and it hurts! I’ve been putting this lotion on my hands, my feet, even my face instead of my usual night cream and I’m telling you . . it’s the best stuff I’ve ever used! My feet feel better than they’ve felt in years. That one little tub of hand cream has been passed around and mom and dad have fallen in love with it too.
The lady gave me the recipe for it and mom and I made a batch last night. Here’s the recipe so you can make some too:
Homemade Hand Cream:
16 oz. baby lotion
8 oz. Vaseline
8 oz. Vitamin E Cream
Mix with electric mixer til it resembles icing.
Put in containers.
So easy to make, inexpensive and wonderful!
Judy, thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I’m going to”whip” some up, too. What a lovely gift this would make.
Hugs to you AND your friend for being so generous.
just needs some lavender oil and then you’d smell all pretty…
I can’t wait to try this – thanks for sharing the recipe. Looks like I’ll be making a visit to Walgreens today.
thank you for sharing the receipe I’m going to make myself some.
I have some “homemade” cream I received at Christmas time. It is made with goats milk. It is wonderful and wish I had the recipe for it. Yours should do the trick. I bet it smells good (baby lotion). Every year, in the winter, my thumbs crack. It is painful and besides it is hard to quilt with bandaids all over your thumbs. I thought I had made it through this year, but this past week, they cracked. If I would use my “wonder” creams more often they probably wouldn’t do that.
A gal from our quilt club shared this a year or so ago-it is the best stuff! And if you use the Johnson & Johnson brand of baby lotion — you smell like a sweet baby.
Aveeno and or the Walmart equivalent is my favorite hand lotion. But even the Walmart brand is expensive to me. This sound like it will be nice and thick. And the fact that it doesn’t have a lot of scent draws me in also. Can’t wait to make some. We should all say thanks to the wonderful lady who shared the recipe with you.
Oh, thank you! Definitely going to whip some up this weekend!
I have to make some of this up for me and my mom. Mom’s feet are also very dry and painful. Can’t wait to try it! Thank you for sharing — NOT TMI!!!
I wonder if drugstores will notice all of a sudden they’re seeing a surge in the amount of these ingredients going out their doors! I’ll be trying the recipe, too.
I made this using Crisco shortening instead of the Vaseline. I was too lazy to go to the store and it was wintertime and I was out of Vaseline. My feet didn’t care it was Crisco.
Judy, do you use this hand cream while handling your quilts? Just wondering. Thanks to you and your friend for the recipe.
Can’t wait to try it!!
I’ve been using this for about a year and it is the best ever! No more itchy back! I discovered there is really no need to get the mixer out. You can mix it with you hands just fine.
Checked my recipe and it calls for 2-15 oz. baby lotion, 2-8 oz. Vit E cream and 1 7.7 oz jar Vaseline.
I even have some lavender oil that I got from the health food store for my scalp. It helps the itching from the dry heat in the house. Thank you for this! Now to get some clothes on and run to the Dollar Store, lol.
Judy, a friend and I made almost 60 jars of this wonderful cream for Christmas gifts for our friends and family. We love it and so do the men in our family. Glad you discovered it.
Norma
That sounds wonderful. My mom suffers with very dry skin so after I mix some up I’ll share it with her. Hopefully it will help more than the standard extra-dry skin lotions. Thanks for posting the recipe and the lady who gifted you!
Thank you for this, Judy. My heels crack and bleed and hurt so badly. The only thing I could find that helped was Heel Magic at Bed, bath and beyond. I am definitely going to try your cream, as it will be much less $ and probably work much better.
Oh yes thanks. I work in a fabric store and just cannot keep enough lotion on to keep hands from cracking. I’m going to make some asap. Shirley
Thanks Judy for sharing this with us. I’m gonna try it soon on my hands and feet.
where did you find the 8 oz. vitamin e cream?