Infused oils are so easy to make and are great for homemade lotions. You can use mason jars or cleaned and sterilized food jars. Olive oil is the most commonly used base and works nicely in the lotions I have experimented with this year. Pick your clean dandelions or white/pink clover. Allow them to wilt over night spread out on a papertowel. This gets eccess water out and prevents mold in the oil. Pick your flowers from carefully thought out places. Parts of your yard that don't get chemical sprays or have animals urinating make for cleaner flowers : )
Put your wilted flowers in your jar. Fill with olive oil till flowers are covered. Place the jar in a pan of water and heat on stovetop till the jar is very warm but not scalding hot. Put lid on and cool to room temp. Then place it on window sill. Shake once or twice a day. I recommend letting it infuse for at the very least one week... preferably two. And there you go! You can make Body Butter and tons of other great things with your infused oil.
Put your wilted flowers in your jar. Fill with olive oil till flowers are covered. Place the jar in a pan of water and heat on stovetop till the jar is very warm but not scalding hot. Put lid on and cool to room temp. Then place it on window sill. Shake once or twice a day. I recommend letting it infuse for at the very least one week... preferably two. And there you go! You can make Body Butter and tons of other great things with your infused oil.
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