Homemade Body Butter Cream

by Eva
(Tampa)

My Homemade Body Butter Cream

This Body Butter Cream is amazingly moisturizing, and the ingredients are so good for your skin. The Cocoa butter has often been called the ultimate moisturizer. It quickly melts and absorbs into the skin, and its really good for anyone suffering with eczema or dermatitis.

The Shea butter leaves your skin feeling really soft and smooth. It contains both vitamins A and E and has been known to fade stretch marks.( suitable for all skin types).

What you will need
- 3 oz (75g) of cocoa butter
- 6 oz (150g) of shea butter
- 3 oz (75g) of jojoba or any other liquid oil
- Cosmetic jars or any containers with lids (I rinse out my old skin cream pots and reuse them)

Method
First you need to blend all the ingredients together, and then gently melt them. You can ether melt them in a double boiler or in a microwave oven.

Once all the ingredient is melted, give it a quick whisk with a electric hand blender. Then pop it into the freezer for five minutes to cool ( if you cant fit it in your freezer you can put it into a bowl full of ice to cool it.)

Take your mixture out of the freezer, and if you want to add any fragrance add a few drops of essential oils at this point( this is optional it smells pretty good on its own)
Give it another good whisk so you get lots of air into it.

Put it back into the freezer/bowl for five more minutes, take it out and whip again, repeat the process once more until your body butter begins to make little peaks (like whipping frosting).

Once you are happy with its consistency, spoon it into cosmetic jars or containers and leave to set for 24 hours before using.

Tip
If you prefer a softer body butter cream, next time you make this add a little more liquid oil.

If you prefer a harder body butter cream, next time add a little more cocoa butter.

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Softening your body butter
by: Angela

Hi Karen Ive had a go at this one myself and a similar thing happened to me. Although my body butter didn't go lumpy it did go very firm and I'm pretty sure I didn't over heat the butters.

The next time I make this recipe I'm going to add less of the hard oils and a little more liquid oil, this should give it a much softer and creamier consistency. That said; I still really like this recipe, even though it's a bit on the hard side I'm finding that it melts on the skin as you apply it.

Once Ive perfected this body butter I will alter the original recipe. Thanks for the feed back Karen.

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Wonderful and a question
by: Karen

Hi there - I made this!! Its wonderful. My only complaint is its not smooth, its kinda of chunky and wax like now that its cooled and sat for a day. Did I overheat the butters?

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Body butter
by: Janice

I can't wait to start making this body butter. I sometimes make my own soap so I already have most of the ingredients needed for this. And if it turns out well, I will be giving it for Christmas this year.

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