Body Lotion Recipe With Shea Butter

Combine your water part ingredients, including the distilled water and glycerine in a pyrex or heatproof beaker/jug and then put to one side. This is our ‘water part’.
140 g Distilled Water, 6 g Glycerine, 10 g Shea Butter, 12 g Sweet Almond Oil, 10 g Emulsifying Wax NF
Combine your oil part ingredients, including the e-wax, cetyl alcohol, shea butter, sweet almond oil, and jojoba oil in another separate heatproof or pyrex beaker/jug. This is the 'oil part'.
Now place the 'water part' and the 'oil part' in a water bath or double boiler.
You can set up a water bath by simply pouring a few inches of water into a pan and leaving it on the stove to warm. You don’t want it to boil, keep the heat very low.
Let your oils and waxes melt together. Depending on the temperature you’ve set your stove, this can take about 20 mins. If it’s still not melting, turn the temperature up and keep a close eye on it.
Once everything has melted, add your water part to your oils part.
Remove your pyrex jug/beaker from the water bath and give it a good vigorous stir while it cools. I find it easier to use a milk frother for this but it's optional. But keep the beater as close to the base of the jug as possible as not to add too much air. You don’t want bubbles, you want thick lotion.
Depending on the emulsifying wax used this could take a while, it may not fully thicken right away, so persevere with it.
We need to wait for our mixture to cool to 40C (104F) before we can add our cooldown ingredients. You can use an ice bath to speed this process up. As this will also speed up the thickening process, you will need to stir continually. You dont have to use an ice bath, you can just stir for a couple of minutes then pause for a minute and repeat until it has cooled.
Measure out your preservative following directions for your chosen preservative. And also add your vitamin e and lavender essential oil.
A pipette really comes in handy here, as we’re using such small quantities. I find the best method for this is placing your jug onto a scale, set it to zero and then add your preservative a drop at a time until you have enough. This will make sure no preservative gets left in a cup or ramekin.
Then stir thoroughly.
2 g Preservative
Decant your mixture into your chosen storage container. If you’re using a jar with a wide lip you can use a spatula or spoon. If you’re using a bottle, you can make use of a funnel. Your container must come with a lid, and must be made of glass, PET plastic or aluminium.
1 Pump Bottle

Body Lotion Recipe With Shea Butter

Ingredients:

Water Part

Oil Part

Cooldown Phase

Equipment:

Instructions: