Are you are looking for a nice recipe for a simple, yet luxurious homemade skin moisturizer containing oatmeal for a soothing, skin softening and moisturizing cream? Possibly one that can be used as a a great option for eczema and other skin conditions without paying the hefty price? Then check out our personal homemade recipe for our easy homemade skin moisturizer. We have a son with eczema and the creams you buy can be very pricey! So I combined many of the common components used in many eczema and other skin moisturizer creams to create this soothing skin cream. And at least for our son, it works well for his eczema!
In addition to treating our son’s eczema, this has been an amazing treatment for our dry skin. If we are experiencing some really dry weather causing those dry, cracking hands, we’ll lather this cream on our hands and cover with a pair of socks or gloves to soak it in all night. It works amazingly well in our dry climate!
Here are the ingredients needed:
- 1/4 cup of oatmeal/oats
- 3/4 cup of coconut oil (you can get coconut oil online for 50% off HERE on Amazon and shipped FREE with subscribe and save option)
- Few drops of rosemary oil
- 1 tbsp of olive oil
Now that you have your ingredients together – let’s get started on making a super Easy Homemade Skin Moisturizer!
How to make Easy Homemade Skin Moisturizer:
- You will first need to finely ground the oatmeal to a powder/flour consistency. You can use a blender, food processor or a Magic Bullet type of appliance to finely ground the oats.
- Over low heat, melt the coconut oil until it has a liquid consistency.
- Add a few drops of Rosemary Essential Oil
- Then mix in the oatmeal flour until well blended.
- Mix in the olive oil until well blended.
- Once the ingredients are mixed, pour into a small storage container or glass baby food jars, etc. Let harden for several hours.
After it hardens, simply apply to hands and skin as needed for skin softening, moisturizing, soothing and healing. This stuff also lasts forever!
As you can tell from our picture, the kids like to get the cream from the middle. 
It has almost a Carmex lip balm consistency!
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Disclaimer: Please note this has not been tested nor advocated by a medical practitioner and is not intended to be medical advice. Yada yada…
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Thank you! Going to try this with my toddler…he has a little bit of excema and I never feel quite right about slathering petroleum-laden lotion all over him, even the “good” stuff. This looks great!
Coconut oil is amazing all on its own!! Everyone in my family is hooked on it, a little goes such a long ways!!! I even got all my friends hooked on it, and either buy it for them for bithdays or Christmas. I usually get it at Fred Meyer for about $7 in their natural section.
Does the Rosemary Oil help with preserving it, or what is its purpose? Sounds like a great recipe and my toddler gets eczema when he eats eggs so I will have to try that recipe so I have something on hand that is natural for when he eats the occasional cookie and gets a flare up. Thanks for the great recipe!
Well, I actually developed this recipe myself by looking at some of the key ingredients from over the counter products for eczema and research on essential oils. Rosemary was recommended for Eczema (I can’t remember where I saw that as it was a while ago as I have been making this a while!). Plus, oatmeal is also good for eczema, so the combination seemed good and when actually made and used, does work well! Plus we love Coconut Oil, so that seemed like a good natural base. Who knows, maybe it preserves it longer too
Hope that helps!
Rosemary oil kick starts circulation, so it’s definitely a good thing to have in your facial creams. I add lavender too because it’s an antiseptic. My girlfriends use them as night cream and are nuts for it.
Oh, and instead of olive oil I use vitamins e oil instead of olive because its a preservative. It will help make sure it doesn’t go rancid and if you have acne scars or anything like that, it will help fade it away.
Where do you buy your coconut oil? How much does it run? I have never bought it.
Oh – never mind. You already said you get it from Amazon…guess I was skimming too fast this morning.
I buy mine from the grocery store, in the same aisle as the olive oil. Just make sure it’s 100%.
Can’t wait to make, my husband has eczema and so do my neices. Sounds like it’s worth giving a try.
I just made a batch! I used tea tree oil because its what I had on hand. I have read that it is good for excema too. How do you get your oatmeal flour to incorporate properly? I may not have ground mine fine enough because it wants to settle on the bottom. Regardless, I used some just now in its liquid form and my hands are silky smooth. Can’t wait to try it out on my kids who have excema!
I just made a batch too and mine did the same thing! All the oatmeal settled in the bottom. I would love to know the secret of getting it to look as good as yours in the photo. Lol!
Hi Courtney and Jeanna! To help answer both of your questions, there is going to be some of it that does settle to the bottom as it is heavier than the oils. However, the finer the ground, the less it will settle. Also, when you are mixing it into the hot oils on the stovetop, you are melting and mixing much of it into the formula and the oat flour is disintegrating into the oils, even if the larger pieces settle to the bottom, the oatmeal is still all throughout the cream after drying – not all of it is settling to the bottom! There is no need to worry about it, but possibly grinding into finer powder as the finer the powder and the more mixing on the stove top will help draw out the oatmeal “milk” if you will and allow it to mix even better. I hope that helped answer your questions! Please let me know if you have more
I can see that you are putting a lots of eoftrfs into your blog. Keep posting the great operate.Some really helpful data in there. Bookmarked. Good to see your site. Thanks!
I used organic coconut oil, added some cocoa butter (bc I was just shy of 3/4 c of coconut oil), Grapeseed oil, oats, essential oils of lavender, geranium & frankincense & vitamin e! I will come back & try & add a photo once it solidifies.
Oh & I used a coffee grinder that I bought specifically for grinding spices to grind the oats!
Made it with grapeseed oil & it’s still liquid with the oatmeal settled at the bottom! I’m still going to try & use it as a body oil.
You said Coconut oil and then when you mixed things together you said Olive Oil
which is it?
sorry I see it now
Do you think adding a cup of distilled water will make it more of a lotion consistency?
Hmmm… I am not sure if water alone will do it as water and oil don’t mix well
But you could try natural vegetable glycerin and a little water and see how that goes and let us know if it works!
Hi Cassie,
There are ways to do a water into oil lotion. Try googling it. I tried it once, but couldn’t get it to work – both the oil and water need to be at the same temp, and I could never get it right. Hope it works out for you!
Hi..Do you think this would be good for diaper rash?
Hello! I followed your instructions exactly and my lotion is still liquid after 8 hours. Was I supposed to put it in the fridge? Thanks!
I’ve developed eczema for the first time, and want to try this recipe. However, coconut oil seems to have a drying effect on my skin, and I’ve stopped using it in my lotions. Have you tried this recipe with shea butter and/or cocoa butter?
Hi Kathy, I haven’t but I would imagine that both would be fabulous!! Let us know how it turns out if you try it! I use Coconut Oil just because I have a surplus (we use it for many, many things!). I don’t have shea or cocoa butter on hand, but it sounds really nice
Thankyou for the recipie. I am super excited to try it. I do want to know your thoughts on adding Zinc Oxide to it for additional SPF protection.
Hi Melva, I would love to hear your thoughts on it. We all love it! As far as the Zinc Oxide, that is a good question and worth trying. I don’t feel like I know enough to say for sure. Let us know how that part turns out too! Thanks! – Cassie
I am super exited to try this recipie. What do you think about adding Zin Oxide for additional SPF protection?
In used a medicine grinder from Wal-Mart for $3.99 to grind up the oatmeal. I could not justify spending money on a coffee grinder when that would be all I am using it for. $3.99 vs $14.65– a no brainer for me.
Cassie— I can not find Zinc Oxide powder, so I will be leaving it out of these batches. I will have to order some on ebay in a couple of weeks.
I saw organic coconut oil in the baking oil of my local wal mart. and I’m sure my local health food coop has it also
sounds wonderful! Do you think it would be okay to substitute almond oil for the olive oil?
Hi Loretta, I don’t see why not! I just have olive oil on hand all of the time so it is my go to oil. Let us know how it turns out with that! Thanks!
I made this last night but after I mixed everything on the stove I let it cool a little then put it in the blended on high for a minute…then poured it into a pretty jar…then let it set for 5 minutes…repeated this a couple times….turned out beautifully a d was ready to use this a.m…gonna try making another batch of this today but adding 1/2 cup sugar AFTER it is cooled to make a body scrub!!
That’s a great idea to break-up the final bits of oatmeal. I hadn’t thought of that! I love the idea of turning it into a scrub too! Thanks for sharing!
How long is it supposed to take to harden. I decided to try your recipe because my arms and legs are dry red and flakey and it itches like crazy.
It can take some time, but if your home is warm, it will take a long while. I actually stick it in the fridge when I am not using it because coconut oil melts at 76 degrees, so a little less than that will make it “soft.” Once it initially hardens, I store it in a cooler spot (like in a bathroom cupboard) because near a window, stove or other warm spots will make it melt. It will take a while to bring it back down from the very hot state you had it in when you made it
Hope that helps!
I was really excited to find your recipe as I have had ezcema for years and keeping it under control is a constant struggle.
I live in Mexico and was told that cartamo (safflower) oil is good for ezcema. Do you think this recipe would work with cartamo oil instead of coconut oil? It’s readily available where I live and I am soooo tired of dermatologists recommending expensive creams from Paris!
I have eczema that always flairs up horribly each summer. Nothing that I buy in stores does anything. I googled homemade remedies & came across your blog. I figured I had nothing to lose by trying it. IT WORKS WONDERS! I didn’t add any Rosemary because I didn’t have any. But it’s still great. I plan on making another batch & adding zinc oxide to use as sunscreen when I go to Nashville next month. Though I feel like it’s gonna end up staying in liquid form while I’m down there. Lol.
Hello,
My daughter has eczema, she is fourteen years old and has had it forever. She is very picky on what she lets me put on her skin. Thank you for the recipe. I just made it, and put it on her before she went to bed. I had everything except the rosemary. So I went outside and cut a little branch from my plant. It’s sizzled when I put it in the oil. I figured it wouldn’t be bad. I pray is not. I used my Ninja to grind up the oatmeal. It came out really fine. I didn’t know how long to cook it for so I let the rosemary with coconut oil for about two minutes and then added the oatmeal, and kept stirring it. Before it hardened I strained it into a glass jar. Then to cool it down, I put it in a Mary’s bath with iced water. It solidified in about 8-10 minutes. I pray it works. I’ll let you know. Thanks again.
Dionely
Bella – thank you so much for sharing those tips and ideas! I love those and looking forward to making new types of different needs!
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