Special Maca Recipes

Explore unusual ways to use maca, including an adaptogen drink blend and recipes for incorporating maca into homemade shampoo, lotion, and other body-care preparations.

Updated on August 29, 2026

Reviewed by TMT Editorial Board

Special Maca Recipes

Through conversations with our customers, along with our ongoing maca research, we’ve uncovered some interesting and unconventional ways people use maca.

This small collection goes beyond our usual food and drink recipes. It includes an adaptogen blend made with maca as well as recipes for incorporating maca into homemade shampoo and lotion.

For our complete collection of smoothies, drinks, sweet treats, savory dishes, and traditional Peruvian preparations, visit our Maca Recipes hub.

Explore Special Maca Recipes

Maca Adaptogen Blend
A specialty drink recipe combining maca with other adaptogenic ingredients.

Maca Shampoo and Lotion
Explore unconventional topical recipes that incorporate maca into homemade shampoo and body lotion.

Beyond Everyday Maca Recipes

Most people use maca as a food, powder, capsule, or extract. These specialty recipes explore a couple of less conventional applications.

The Maca Adaptogen Blend combines maca with other ingredients in a specialty beverage.
Maca Shampoo and Lotion explores topical use in homemade personal-care preparations.
These recipes are separate from our main food-recipe categories because they serve different purposes.

If you’re looking for practical everyday ways to take maca, our How to Use Maca guide is the better place to start.

Looking for Maca Food and Drink Recipes?

Our main Maca Recipes collection includes dozens of ways to use maca in smoothies, simple drinks, raw and cooked sweet recipes, savory dishes, and traditional Peruvian preparations.

If you’re new to maca, you may also want to begin with How to Start Maca or review our general Maca Dosage guide.