Read this article to find out cheap and simple homemade body wash recipes for dry skin. I bet you will be excited at creating your own homemade body wash after checking out all the recipes on VKool site below!

Simple Homemade Body Wash Recipes For Your Dry Skin

First, let’s have a closer look at natural ingredients to make your homemade body wash recipes.

I. Common Ingredients For Homemade Body Wash Recipes

1. Honey

Honey is a powerful ingredient in many beauty recipes. It has amazing benefits for skin from the inside to the outside. Honey helps skin retain elasticity and moisture without drying skin out. So, it makes honey the perfect ingredient for dry, mature or itchy skin. Honey also helps speed up the healing of damaged or blemished skin.

Moreover, honey does not make the body wash sticky, but it makes the body smooth and nice. Try using organic, raw and unfiltered honey or combining honey with other ingredients to get the best result.

2. Liquid Castile Soap Or Castile Soap

Liquid castile soap can ensure the body wash recipe has enough suds, so you don’t need to add any chemical foaming ingredients. Feel free to make use of unscented castile soap or scented soap. If you use scented castile soap, it is not necessary for you to add the essential oils to your homemade body wash for dry skin. Go ahead and if need, add essential oils for therapeutic benefits. Notice that Peppermint castile soap can be an uncomfortable tingly for sensitive skin and sensitive skin body areas.

3. Distilled Water

This is the gentlest ingredient in most body wash products. It does not cause environmental pollution when entering wastewater stream. Also, it’s non-toxic so it’s safe for skin and good to be used daily.

In fact to make any beauty product with water, you must use distilled water, but not tap water or other types. Normally, tap water often contains bacteria that can drastically shorten the shelf life of your homemade body wash. Distilled water or water that is filtered through many layers of filters can help remove harmful and toxic bacteria.

It’s is easy to buy distilled water and the cost is not expensive, so consider choosing distilled water to make your own homemade body wash recipes or any DIY skin care and beauty recipes.

4. Glycerin

Choose glycerin that is made by vegetable. This ingredient is safe for your skin. It helps give your body wash a thick consistency. Glycerin also helps moisturize your body and it has a long shelf life of use.

5. Vitamin E

Vitamin E is rich in antioxidants that can moisturize, repair and protect skin from free radicals. It also helps elongate shelf life of your homemade body wash for dry skin. When you choose Vitamin E, make sure that this vitamin E must be labeled D-alpha tocopherol as this type is derived from plant sources naturally and Dl-alpha tocopherol acetate is often toxic and synthesized.

Especially, you should use vitamin E in winter and summer when your body skin gets more stress from harsh weather and temperatures.

6. Essential Oils

Essential oils are made for health and beauty. They are beneficial for many troublesome skin conditions. In concrete, they help soothe, heal, repair, deodorize and disinfect skin. It is recommended to apply essential oil on skin directly as a massage therapy. Besides, you can use essential oils as one of homemade body wash recipes.

But remember to use 100% pure natural oils. Some oils are made from petroleum products so that they are linked to skin cancer and bad effects on skin.

Use single natural oil or blend a few essentials to make your own body wash recipes. Here are common essential oil recipes:

• Geranium

This oil is great for acne, oily complexions, mature skin, dermatitis and eczema. It also helps revitalize dull skin, brighten skin, balance hormone and improve sensual, light and adrenal skin conditions.

• Chamomile (both Roman & German)

This oil is great for sensitive and dry skin, eczema, acne and dermatitis.

It also helps skin smooth, ease irritability, reduce muscle spasms, cure arthritis, and treat PMS. In addition, chamomile oil is good for stress and work as a mind relaxation remedy.

• Grapefruit

This oil helps tone the skin and works as a natural cleanser for oily skin. If you use an appropriate amount of grapefruit oil, there will not have any phototoxic concern.

• Lavender

Lavender oil is gentle and great for all types of sensitive skin. The oil is effective to sooth itchy skin and perfect for acne, mature skin, psoriasis and eczema. In addition, lavender oil can help relieve tension, reduce headaches, heal burns and bruises, cure asthma and improve insomnia.

• Palmarosa

It can help moisturize skin, stimulate new cell growth, and regulate oil production. This oil is mild so it is valuable for using in any skin care products.

• Peppermint

Peppermint has astringent properties so it is good for skin with acne. Peppermint is fresh, stimulating and cool so that it helps you relieve mental fatigue, eliminate headaches, indigestion. The oil also helps you have clear thinking, concentration, stop nausea and cure sinus congestion.

Because the oil is strong, so you should pay attention to using an appropriate amount of this oil in your homemade body wash recipes. For pregnant women, avoid using this oil during the first 4 months of their pregnancy. If needed, just use a small amount of this oil.

• Patchouli

Next, you can make use of patchouli oil as this includes antimicrobial, astringent and has deodorant and fungicidal properties. Patchouli is perfect for eczema, oily skin, acne, chapped skin, nature skin and cracked skin.

• Rosemary

This oil is restorative and stimulating. It is very helpful for dermatitis, acne, and eczema.

However, pregnant women should be careful when using rosemary oil. Do not use this oil if you have high blood pressure or you’re epileptic.

Besides, rosemary is fresh so it helps you have mental clarity and beat off colds and sinus.

See: List of 9 natural oils for skin care

II. Simple Homemade Body Wash Recipes For Dry Skin

1. Honey Body Wash

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup of raw and unfiltered honey
• ⅔ cup of liquid castile soap

• 2 teaspoons of natural oil (such as grape seed oil, jojoba oil, sweet almond oil, sesame oil, or olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of Vitamin E oil

Directions:

Combine all these of ingredients in a glass bottle. Shake the bottle or use a squirt top to mix. Then, gently shake before each use. Put the maintaining on the fridge for future use. Squirt the body wash onto a bath pouf, or squirt it onto your body directly.

As this homemade body does not contain water, so you can put it at dark and cool place and use it for up to a full year.

2. Castile Soap, Distilled Water, Glycerin And Essential Oil Body Wash

Ingredients:

• 5 cups of distilled water
• 2 capsules of vitamin E
• 30 drops of essential oil
• 1 bar of castile soap
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable glycerin

Directions:

Place 5 cups of distilled water and the castile soap into a pot and heat it until the soap is melted.

Next, remove the pot from the heat for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then, add the vitamin E and squeeze all the ingredients with essentials oil, vegetable glycerin. Stir them well until you have a smooth and thick paste. Put the pot in a cool place for 18 to 24 hours. In the next day, add ½ cup of distilled water to the paste.

Stir it vigorously. You can use a whisk to do it. Next, use a blender to blend it for about 30 seconds. As you see, the mixture will become smooth and turn white. Pour the mixture into a plastic or glass bottle and close it with a pump lid. Remember to label it and place it in your shower. You can store the maintaining for future use in a mason jar or container.

3. Honey And Olive Oil Body Wash

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of castile liquid soap
• ½ cup of raw and unfiltered honey
• 2 teaspoons of olive oil
• 2 teaspoons of coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon of vitamin E oil
• 1 pump bottle
• Essential oils (lavender or peppermint)

Instructions:

Take a large bowl to mix all these ingredients well (except essential oils). If you don’t like peppermint, you can replace another one as peppermint seems to be allergic to many people. Some unscented oils may be better. Then drop some essential oils if you want. Mix them well. Finally store the mixture into the bottle with a pump lid. Now, you can start using this homemade body wash daily without worrying about suffering from side effects of harsh chemicals in commercial body wash products.

4. Orange, Honey, Vitamin E And Castle Soap Body Wash

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup of organic honey

• 1/2 cup of castle liquid soap

• 50 drops of essential oil

• 2 tablespoons of Vitamin E

• 1 tablespoon of natural oil (olive, jojoba or grape seed)

• 1 pump bottle

Directions:

Mix all these ingredients in to the bottle. Close the bottle with a pump lid. Then shake it well, and wa-la! You’ve made your own homemade body wash in just a few minutes.

Bottom line: Don’t limit yourself in creating your own homemade body wash recipes with other ingredients. They are only common ingredients and recipes for you to start learning. Just try and do other great homemade body wash recipes with new ingredients and new combinations between the ingredients. Thanks for reading! Comment upon this article on simple homemade body wash recipes for dry skin if desired.

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