Essential By Nature Bergamot Body Butter 200ml

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Apply it on your skin, your legs, tummy, hands, heels, anywhere you want. Since it’s greasy, I’d recommend you use it before you go to bed and let the combo of oils do their magic during the night. Your skin will feel soft, smooth, nourished, and very pleasant to the touch and look! From experience, I like to use 1-part carrier oils to 1-part butters. Then again, if I’m using a brittle oil (cocoa, kokum, tucuma) in the recipe, I’ll use about 1/3 of the brittle butter and add 2/3 of a soft butter to counterweight the hardness of the first butter. Rosehip Waterless Cream: Replace 0.4 oz (11 g) of the oils with rosehip seed oil. Since it’s heat sensitive, wait to add the rosehip oil until after you removed the melted mixture from the heat. Optional essential oils: 10 drops rose absolute, 10 drops lavender, 1 drop frankincense

Whipped butter that’s too hard to whip with a stand or hand mixer, will need to be completely melted again. Then add in an extra 1/4 to 1/2 ounce of oil, whip until fluffy, and test to see if you need even more oil added, to get it to your preferred consistency. My body butter is too soft, or melty! There are mixed opinions on this topic and the jury is still out on whether or not organic body butters work. Are Organic Body Butters Safe? Calendula Butter: Use calendula infused oil for the oil portion. Optionally add 15 drops of lavender essential oil when mixing. Leave out the essential oil and it can be used on all ages, even pets (ie: for hot spots). This also means that the body butter isn't 100% natural (in our opinion). It is definitely more natural than many commercial body butters, but there's no escaping the fact that there are some synthetic ingredients involved.The ingredients used in this homemade whipped body butter recipe are all natural, this means they can melt if they are left somewhere too warm. It's best to store the body butter in a cool, dry place and out of direct sunlight.

Step 3.Continue gentle blending as the blend cools down. At about 35 degrees Centigrade add the essential oil. If you live in a hot climate, or your house runs hot, and all of your body butters get too soft during storage, try melting everything down and adding in a few tablespoons of melted cocoa butter (unrefined will smell like chocolate, while refined will have a much lighter scent). Cocoa butter, and other hard butters like kokum, will help harden up your body butter. Whip the butter using a stand mixer or handheld mixer until it is light and fluffy. This will take 5-10 minutes. The good news is that homemade body butter is an easy DIY project and is very simple to make with just a few key ingredients. All you have to do to follow our simplest recipe is melt and whip together some lovely natural products.

How to Make a Body Butter

However, there's more than one way to make body butter. There's two main types of body butter: Those that contain water and those that don't. A 4-cup Pyrex or heat-proof glass measuring pitcher is perfect for making body butters! Equipment Needed You do not need to keep body butters in the fridge, unless you live in an ultra-hot climate, then it might be helpful. Do you have to use a preservative in body butter? Studentsare challengedto prepare a formulation in two different ways: one conventional butter and one whipped butter and then compare the texture, consistency, skin feels and appearance. This is a part of my Arctic series that I started recently. It’s divine; the fragrant vanilla with uplifting orange and toning frankincense make this butter a lovely gift, even if you make it for yourself! Prepare for your skin to illuminate with mica pearl powder!