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!
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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.
Use liquid bandage on your cuts. It will keep the cracks from re-opening.
Sharie~ my thumbs used to crack until someone recommended Vick’s Vapo-rub! sounds crazy but works like a charm. Just put Vick’s on the cracks, cover with “thumbkins” – they look like the tops of surgical gloves and fit snug. Usually takes 1/2 a day and voila! the cracks are healed. Good luck
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.
Actually, I heard that crisco is better for the skin than petroleum products as it is plant based oil. You do have to make sure the lotion is then refrigerated or the crisco will eventually go rancid.
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?
I buy all the ingredients at the Dollar General. They Vitamin E cream is $1, I believe.
Thanks so much for putting this recipe up! I was given some for Christmas one year and have looked for the recipe ever since! It is fabulous!
Been looking for this recipe! I work in healthcare and we are making this for volunteer gifts ,awesome fragrance.
So glad you posted. Happy Holidays.
Ann
I can’t wait to try this thank you so much for posting this. I’ve also been looking for something like this to give for Christmas presents for friends and family.
Where do you purchase the vitamen e ?
I found vitamin E cream at Walmart. It was in the lotion section.
Dollar General, Family Dollar.
I was wondering if anyone has tried it with a scent? I was thinking it would be nice to have some “Christmas lotion” by my kitchen sink or for gifts. I wonder how it would be to add coconut oil to it? I will definitely be trying this soon!
I add peppermint oil and it smells soothing.
I made something like this when I caught the chicken pox again.I had them for almost a week. I mixed a couple drops of tree tea oil in with the lotion and put it on. I had itched so bad and the pink calamine stuff made me itch more. The tree tea oil burned for a little bit but it took away the itching. The pox and dry skin were gone in two days.
I work in a hospital and we wash our hands constantly. I just put together a batch of this and I can’t wait to share it with my coworkers!
I found the Vitamin E at Walmart today packaged as 2-4 oz tubs sealed together. It is Fruit of the Earth brand, and it has a large yellow “E” on the jar. It was with all the lotions but on the very bottom shelf. The 2-4 oz jars cost $3.67.
I did make this today. When you first put it on it is a little bit greasy but after about 5-10 min. there is no more greasy feeling but my skin feels very very soft and smooth. I will be giving some of this to my friends and family.
I’m making up some of this tonight!!!!
I use this same recipe but add peppermint oil when using as foot lotion. Put cool tags on saying Handmade for ?????. Everybody LOVES it (I do too).
I found the VitaminE cream at Dollar General for $2 a jar, and someone else told me they saw it at Dollar Tree, but I haven’t been to town to check it out…in that case it would only be $1 !
I was introduced to this cream last night. Got the ingredients to make me some and to give as gifts. Love it.
Where do you find the little pump bottles at?? Very cute!
I found the pump bottles at Hobby Lobby for about $2 a piece, and flip top bottles for $1.49!
Thank you so much!!
The container store also has them and different sizes…
Small jelly jars work great also.
That’s what I wanted to know. Thanks! ‘Purchased all the ingredients to make my lotion yesterday, but had nothing to put it in once made. I need to make a trip to Hobby Lobby, now.
I found the little bottles at Dollar Tree! 3 in a package!
Getting ready to whip up a batch, but I wonder: what is the easiest way to bottle this up? Can you microwave it until its runny, then just pour it into the bottles?
Easiest and cheapest way is to do a piping method like you do for icing on a cake. Just take a plastic bag, pour the content in the bag and then cut a small to medium hole in the corner. Squeeze it directly into the bag. Melting the content in the microwave may make it too greesy.
Sorry…i meant to say, “squeeze it directly into the bottle.”
I’m thinking that I’ll put it in a big freezer bag, snip the corner off, and then squeeze it into individual containers.
I wonder if it would work if I substituted coconut oil for the vaseline?
Why not put it all into a large ziplock bag and cut the corner, then pipe it into your containers like you would with frosting.
I’m going to go pick up some baby lotion and vitamin e cream tomorrow and try this out. I have really bad feet problems too.
Remember that as the cream is going into the container, the air has to be coming out of the container so do not block the hole completely while filling.
Judy, I filled the jars then tapped them a little so they would fill up. Is that going to be a problem? Thanks:)
I use the lotion and vitamin E. I just use aquaphor instead of Vaseline.
Would the Suave vitamin E lotion be the same as the vitamin E cream?
NO, the cream is much thicker and has a higher concentration of vitamin E
Love this made it and gave it as gifts everyone loved it.
Thank you for this posting, I will be buying supplies for this tomorrow. Have you calculated cost per oz.?
I wonder what kind of scents you can use with this. I’d like some kind of berry scent, or vanilla. Any suggestions and if so how much in order to maintain the consistency?
Thoughts about using Vitamin E oil instead of cream? I couldn’t find the cream at Target…..Would this end up really gross?
I used vitamin E oil and it worked great! I’m loving this lotion!
I made this tonight:) It’s wonderful. I bought everything Walmart brand. I also got 12 – 4oz mason jars and put it in them for Christmas gifts for our seniors at church.
I put everything into a large Ziploc bag and it was very easy to pipe the mixture into the bottles. I found little flip-top bottles at Sally Beauty, then found cheaper (and cuter) ones at WalMart ($0.98 each). I also peeled the labels off the two vitamin E containers and reused them!
This sounds like a cream I desperately need…winter is brutal on my hands with my knuckles cracking/bleeding and no chance to recover because I’m always getting hands wet with diaper changes, laundry, dishes, etc.
I will have to look into these ingredients at WalMart. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder how Aquaphor would work instead of the vaseline? I love Aquaphor but it does take a while to soak in.
I bet the ingredients that make Aquaphor special would really make the cream awesome, but it might drive up your cost–a tube of Aquaphor at my pharmacy is upwards of $5 for 3-4 oz. I’m all about “cheap but lots of it.” LOL
Where are you finding the Vitamin E cream at? I’ve tried Target, Walmart & Nature’s pantey. The one I found at Nature’s Pantry was like $12 for 3 oz of cream. I did find Vit E oil but that was it. HELP!!!! I really want to make this.
If you have a Family Dollar or Dollar General in your area, you might check there. They usually have it. I made some today and Family Dollar had it in a 16 oz container so I got it and just used half. Will save the rest for the next batch.
I found it today at Walmart but I almost missed it! I used to buy it at Dollar General.
Thank you for this recipie…and I found the Vit E Cream in the pharmacy at walmart..Hopr that helps…
This sounds amazing! Can’t wat to make it for Christmas gifts!!!
Just made some! SO excited! Used J&J Honey Apple baby lotion! Smells so good!
I make this quite often. I use the creamy vaseline and the baby lotion that is shae butter. Love the smell. Everyone that I have given it to loves it also.
Thanks for posting this. I saw it first on Pinterest and followed it to your blog…made it up…was amazed at the ease and how wonderful it is, and then put a link on my blog to yours. Thanks.
i found the vitamin e cream at CVS in 4oz jars. i halved the recipe because i only had a few bottles.
i can’t wait to make it again though.
quilting and fabric takes the moisture out of my hands so I coat my hands with this and then put thin rubber gloves on like surgeons use–love it…
I made this cream yesterday and it’s awesome! I found the vitamin e cream at Whole Foods.
My bottles had a small opening, so I scooped the lotion into a zip lock baggie, snipped off the corner end and squeezed the lotion into the bottles that way. Just a tip!
I also used this lotion on my own hands and feet and it really feels heavenly! Thank you!
Just made up a batch of it and got everything at Walmart. It’s wonderful. Next time I will probably cut back on the vaseline a bit and squeeze in some neosporin ointment for my hands that are severely cracked in the winter. Found you on Pinterest- great website.
That is what I was thinking about to add some healing power to my cracked feet!
I just purchased these items to make my lotion. My grandmother has been making this lotion for many, many years! We call it our secret family recipe. I guess it’s not our familys secret anymore! This lotion is amazing, espically for those flip flop feet.
I just made my first batch tonight, and I think it’s fabulous! I found the Vita E cream at Wal Mart in a two 4 oz jar “bundle”. It was around $4.00. Although I like the smell of Baby Lotion (I used Baby Magic), I would like to try the next batch with unscented baby lotion and add my own essential oil drops for a custom scented cream. Wow, this really makes your hands feel soft and you only need a tiny amount! I also made a batch of “sugar body scrub” and will be giving the two items together for my co-workers. I put them in Glad “mini” containers with red lids and a bow on top, and a small card to let them know it’s hand cream….cause it looks good enough to eat! Really fun and super easy to make!
I bet putting a small amount of glycerin in it would make your skin feel even softer.
I have used this lotion for years and it is the best! One variation I like is to use CREAMY Vaseline in the tube so it is a tad less greasy. Also I discovered using an electric mixer is not necessary, just stir well with a spatula. Clean-up is easier that way.
I did this exactly and it’s pretty runny. Feels great though. Used the apple scented baby lotion. Smells great. What can i do to thicken it up.
i made this hand cream for everybody i know for christmas. and they loved it. i put in 8oz. of vaseline its really greasy so i think 4oz. will do.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this lotion!!!! i made my first batch per the recipie on pinterest, i found it a bit greasy with all the vaseline so i decided to use only one 2.5 oz tube of vaseline and then i read the comments and found that you are suppose to use 2 15oz tubs of baby lotion( i use baby magic as i love the smell) and with only 1 tube of vaseline it is amazing!!! i also gave my first batch as stocking stuffers to all the women in my immedite family, but for next christmas i will defenitly give it to some of my cousins and their wives as well so again thanks!!!!!
I just made some up and it feels great. One question. Mary posted the recipe calls for double the vitamin E and baby lotion , which is correct? I did it as you have it listed. I have been using vaseline for months now on my eyes at night, really works for wrinkles. Thanks for the awesome website
does anyone know if this lotion works on psoriasis?
Wonderful stuff!! And I got everything at Walmart.
I could not figure out how to easily get the cream into my pump bottle, so I gave up and put it in the empty Vitamin E jar and a twist n loc container. Woo hoo for ziploc bags and piping the stuff in!
my mom got this recipe from a website called pinterest.com and made. If you make this lotion it makes a lot and is great it smells good and it works. My hands get cracked and really hurt in the winter and i put this lotion on before school, when i get home from school, and before i go to bed. I have to say that this lotion works really good and lasts on your hand for a few hours. I love it!
I found your blog post on Pinterest last night. I picked up all the supplies at the store this morning and “whipped” the recipe up this afternoon. I really wanted to get the lavender scented baby lotion but it was twice as much, so I went with the vanilla oatmeal scent. I decided I didn’t need a ton of the cream, so I decided to cut the recipe in half. I ended up putting the cream back into the Vitamin E jar, Vaseline jar, and a food storage container. This cream is going to be great for my hands!! I put the small Vaseline jar by my kitchen sink, and I’m taking the Vitamin E jar to put on my desk at school. Hopefully I’ll kick winter’s butt this year!!
I found this recipe pinned on Pinterest. I made it as Christmas gifts and only got to keep a small amount for my self. I love this stuff!! Everyone I made it for loves it too and am needing to make my second batch. My feet and hands never felt this smooth. Thank you!
How do you measure all of these ingredients when they come in larger sizes? My petro jelly comes in a 13 oz container and the baby lotion in 27 oz container. I’m assuming the ounces marked are the actual weight of the product, not the amount. Do you use a measuring cup? The vitamin E cream is easy since it’s in two 4 oz jars.
I use a food scale or if it’s relatively simple like half goes in and half doesn’t, I just eyeball it. This isn’t one of those recipes that will be ruined if you’re a little off with any of the ingredients.
One word – ELBOWS – love this
BABY FOOD JARS IS GOOD TO PUT IT IN FOR GIFTS. YOU CAN PAINT THE LIDS AND REMOVE THE LABLE AND THEY ARE PRETTY CUTE.
Made this today finally found Vit E cream @ walmart will check Dollar General or store next batch, think I ‘ll try the lavendar lotion instead of the Johnson’s Baby Lotion for evening use & gifts I personally love the baby scent.
I made this when my 13 year was a baby. I love”oil of olay” but I buy the cheaper version at wal-mart “oil of beauty”. I wonder if this would work instead of baby lotion?
LOVE this stuff! I now have bottles by every sink, my bed and where ever I think I might need it!
Would you recommend using this on my face? Its very dry and even flakey in some spots (ex. where my glasses rest on my nose).
My son’s class made this last year for Mothers Day and it really is the best stuff!! I just did a search and found this page just so that I could find the recipe because I was running out.
Now that I have it, I look forward to gifting it as well. 
This worked wonderfully. Thank you very much. (I posted my review on my blog.)
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