Are you needing something that’s a serious moisturizer, or one that’s just gonna do okay. I ask because I do have a small cabinet of skin care supplies for skin conditions that result in severe dryness, but I ain’t tasting any unless you’ve got a medical need

But if it’s just regular old dry skin, you’ve got options aplenty. Cocoa butter is the obvious one. I can’t say it tastes good, more neutral, but it does soak in quick and hey the job done for basic needs. Plus, it can be used as a base for home brew lotions that you can then add flavors to. Coconut oil is similar in that regard. There’s other stuff like that, and if you go looking for edible massage oils, there’s a ton of recipes out there.

As far as that goes, a lot of edible/flavored massage oils are meh to decent moisturizers, but they tend to leave a little residue, so aren’t really what you’re asking for. Only mention them because they’d be a decent way to get impressions of the ingredients you might want to try when mixing your own.

If you’re able to do longer application sessions to nourish your skin, as opposed to needing something fast, avocado does a damn fine job, but it works more like a mask than a lotion. Mash it, apply it, let it sit for a while, then rinse off with warm water. It really does keep skin soft and pleasant for most of a day, and what tiny bit of taste it leaves is pleasant.

Iirc, aloe, in its direct form, doesn’t leave much taste behind. Maybe a touch of bitterness. I think you can still get filtered aloe juice that can get the job done fine with little or no taste. My mom used to sell some of that, along with other plant based stuff, from some mlm bullshit company, but the products themselves were okay, and I used some of the aloe juice to roll my own skin care stuff for a while.

Plain glycerin is okay as a moisturizer as far as that goes, and is mostly tasteless, and can be easily infused with tasty things. A little lemon peel, maybe some cinnamon, or whatever herbs you prefer can be soaked in it for a few hours to overnight, then strained out. It’ll pick up a light flavor from those, and it’s completely safe for intake as long as you get stuff meant for skin or consumption.

I know that products exist that are flavored and claim to be moisturizing lotions. But I’ve never tried any because I hate most artificial flavors, and the ones I’ve seen tend to be the stuff that I hate the most, so I’ve never bought any, and don’t recall brand names; hence my focus on base products.

Ngl though, I tend to favor cocoa butter, either by itself or with additives, when rolling my own skin stuff. It smells amazing, does a fantastic job on my dry-ass elbows, and isn’t super expensive as a base. Melt it down, toss in whatever stuff you want to help the skin or smell/taste nice, then let it cool. It melts at skin temp from a solid, but you can cut it with things like glycerin to make it more liquid. Just be sure to keep it moving as it cools. Not that I’ve made any in years and years.

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Do you have pica or is this for a partner’s benefit? You could always try something which is actually food like rendered bacon fat or avocado oil. I have sensitivity issues with moisturiser. I will say that CeraVe daily moisturising lotion works pretty well and soaks in fairly quickly. It’s not too greasy either.

Cocoa butter and coconut oil. You’ll need to play with the mix percentage. A little coconut oil goes a long way.