Less is more. Three ingredients are all it takes for Renee Harris to make her quintessential hard lotion.
Growing up in California, Renee shares how she experienced skin dryness due to the harsh summers. After growing up and having children, she noticed that her palms were getting cracked and split due to continuous hand washing after changing so many diapers. She decided to learn to make a lotion bar with three simple ingredients, and she was amazed at the results.
She shares how she marketed hard lotion to cowboys and truckers, who were equally amazed. She explains the three ingredients that make hard lotion so special: beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil. Coconut oil melts at the same temperature as the skin, shea butter nourishes the skin, and beeswax helps it to stay longer on the skin. Renee finally shares the secrets of making good, hard lotion.
About Renee
Renee's first lotion bar was created out of desperation, mixed with creativity. The creativity came from the pleasure she got from making things from her kitchen for her family, whether it was soap, bread, mung sprouts or our family special "apple kefir" that resembles Martinelli's sparkling juice.
The desperation came, literally, from her hands. She had the worst pain from the tips of her fingers that were often covered in Band-aids from the cuts and splits from her daily activities and extremely dry skin. Her hands were her most important tools, but they caused her intense suffering... until the lotion bar.
Not only did that first lotion bar heal up her skin within days, but she tried it with her son's seasonal eczema, and was ecstatic that his pain also ended with the lotion bar.
Something that was so easy to make turned into a family business after she and her older boys took it to the farmer's market for testing where they received great feedback from customers at the market, as well as several online groups who agreed to test it and fill out surveys. Renee and her husband are now running MadeOn full time.
Links
Website - hardlotion.com
Instagram - @hardlotion