Homemade Hand Lotion using homemade gel experiment...(Flop)

Remember back when I made the homemade hand lotion and I mentioned that I wondered if I could make my own gel, rather than purchasing aloe vera gel, which can be expensive?  Well, I succeeded in making my own hair gel.  What I did not succeed at is making it work with the lotion recipe.  Darn! Here's what happened.

I took 1/2C of the gel and put it in my mini processor

I added one Tablespoon of Canola Oil

And gave it a whirl in the processor.  Here's what I got.

It looked nice, but it wasn't oily enough when used as lotion.

So, I added another T of veg oil

As you can see from when I used it again, it made my hands 

a little too oily and the texture had a lot to be desired.

I considered this experiment a flop, yet didn't want to throw out

1/2C of gel.  Because oil improved the texture of my homemade hand sanitizer so much, 

I decided to dump the rest of my son's homemade hair gel in with it.

And gave it a whirl.

 It really improved the texture!

He's only 6, so he has no oil in his hair naturally.  

Since the oil now makes up only 5% of the total batch,

I'm hoping it won't make his hair greasy or take away

from the drying/defining effect of the hair gel.

He'll probably be scarred for life, but I poured his

new and hopefully improved gel into a washed ketchup container, lol!

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