{"id":898,"date":"2017-11-29T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:46:37","slug":"i-made-the-lotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/i-made-the-lotion\/","title":{"rendered":"I made the lotion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made <a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/lotion-recipe\/\">the lotion<\/a>. The recipe yielded about two cups. I ended up using a KitchenAid stand mixer with the whisk attachment, in place of the advised blender. I don&#8217;t think hand-whisking would work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-899\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2248.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2248-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2248-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2248-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks a lot like mayonnaise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I substituted water for the aloe vera gel (found some pre-owned on eBay, but it was too expensive. I bought some fresh as a second resort but had trouble extracting the pulp, then tried to eat it so it wouldn&#8217;t go to waste and found it incredibly bitter&#8230;). I used sweet almond oil for the liquid oil, coconut for the solid, and left out the lanolin (you can also buy this pre-owned on eBay).<\/p>\n<p>The product is very appealing! Lightweight, similar to commercial lotion, and much less greasy than just using plain oil. I plan to make future batches. The addition of aloe vera and lanolin can only make it better! I will probably use shea butter in place of the coconut oil so that the lotion can be used on the face without fear of it causing acne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the lotion. The recipe yielded about two cups. I ended up using a KitchenAid stand mixer with the whisk attachment, in place of the advised blender. I don&#8217;t think hand-whisking would work. I substituted water for the aloe vera gel (found some pre-owned on eBay, but it was too expensive. I bought some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/i-made-the-lotion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I made the lotion!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}