Healthy alternatives
Fragrance-free
Anarres Natural Health – Lotions
Attitude – Natural Body Lotion
Auromère – Ayurvedic Lotion
Avène – Thermal Spring Water
Bubble and Bee – Organic Body Butter
Coastal Classic Creations – Sandcastle Body Butter
Cococare – 100% Cocoa Butter
Earthsafe – Hand and Body Lotion
Marcelle – Moisture Lotion
Oneka – Body Lotion
Pure Anada – Lotions/ Cocoa Body Butter
Real Purity – Hand and Body Lotion
Rocky Mountain Soap Company – Body Butter
Terressentials – Organic Silken Velvet Body Lotion
The Unscented Company – Lotion
With fragrances (essential oils)
Cosmic Tree – Salamander’s Spring Body Lotion
Druide – Organic Pure Shea Butter
Everyone – Nourishing Lotion
Finally Pure – Ultra Shea
Fitglow Beauty – Cloud Comfort Cream
Green Beaver – Natural Body Lotion
Jusu Body – Body Lotion
Miessence – Body Lotions
DIY
You can easily find a set of simple recipes to make your own body cream.
Here is a natural, fragrance-free home recipe:
- 3/4 cup of vegetable butter (shea, cocoa…)
- 1/4 cup of liquid coconut oil
In a bain-marie, melt the vegetable butter and coconut oil. Let cool in the refrigerator until hardened, then whisk the preparation. Done! You can keep it in a jar in the fridge or at room temperature.
To find this recipe, visit Little Green Dot.
You will also find other recipes on these pages: Wellness Mama, Going Zero Waste, DIY Natural, etc.
Ingredients to avoid
- Ceteareth: possible carcinogen
- DMDM hydantoin: possible carcinogen, skin irritant, skin sensitizer
- Mineral oil: possible carcinogen depending on the degree of purification, allergen
- Lanolin: skin sensitizer
- Parabens: endocrine disruptors
- Synthetic fragrances: allergens
- PEG (polyéthyleneglycol): possible carcinogen (by release of 1,4-dioxane), irritant to skin, eyes and respiratory tract
- Petrolatum: irritant for eyes and respiratory tract, sensitizer
- Polysorbates 60 and 80: skin and eye irritants, skin sensitizers, possible human toxic effects
- Propylene glycol: allergen, irritant
- Quaternium-15: possible carcinogen (by formaldehyde release)
- TEA: skin, eye and respiratory irritant, respiratory and skin sensitizer