Emulsified Body Butter, Chocolate & Peppermint
This emulsified body butter smells great, & it feels great too. My skin is ultra soft, & I owe it to this extra creamy, buttery emulsion. I find the smell of chocolate so intoxifying.
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Yield (adjustable): 200 g
Ingredients:
Water Part
- 110 g (3.88 oz) Distilled Water
- 5 g (0.18 oz) Glycerine
Oil Part
- 32 g (1.13 oz) Cocoa Butter
- 16 g (0.56 oz) Apricot Kernel Oil
- 14 g (0.49 oz) Jojoba Oil
- 12 g (0.42 oz) Emulsifying Wax NF
- 4 g (0.14 oz) Cetyl Alcohol
Cooldown
- 2 g (0.07 oz) Vitamin E Oil
- 2 g (0.07 oz) Preservative
- 2 g (0.07 oz) Chocolate Fragrance Oil
- 1 g (0.04 oz) Peppermint Fragrance Oil
- Cosmetic Jar 8oz
Equipment:
- 1 Stirrer
Instructions:
- Combine your water part ingredients, this will include the distilled water and glycerine.110 g Distilled Water, 5 g Glycerine
- Combine your oil part ingredients, including the emulsifying wax, cetyl alcohol, cocoa butter, apricot kernel, and jojoba oil.32 g Cocoa Butter, 16 g Apricot Kernel Oil, 14 g Jojoba Oil, 12 g Emulsifying Wax NF, 4 g Cetyl Alcohol
- Place both beakers into a water bath to melt. You can make up a water bath by placing some water into a saucepan and bringing it up to a low simmer.
- Once all the solid oils have melted and the water is warmed through, remove them from the heat. Now it's time to combine them. Pour the water part into your oil part and stir vigorously.
- 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 can also allow the body butter to cool naturally, this will take longer and you may want to use the stir for a minute and stand for a minute rotation.
- Once the butter has cooled to 40c (104f) we can add our cooldown ingredients. These include vitamin e, broad spectrum preservative, chocolate fragrance oil, and peppermint essential oil.2 g Vitamin E Oil, 2 g Preservative, 2 g Chocolate Fragrance Oil, 1 g Peppermint Fragrance Oil
- Once all the ingredients have been added and the butter is looking thick and creamy, it's time to whip it up using an eclectic hand whisk. This not only fluffs the body butter up but helps to incorporate all the cool-down ingredients. This shouldn't take much more than a minute or two, depending on the power of the eclectic whisk you are using. We will need to transfer the butter to a large bowl for this.
- Once you are happy with the consistency of the butter, it's time to transfer to a pot to store. Your pot must come with a lid and must be made of glass, PET plastic, or aluminum.Cosmetic Jar 8oz
Notes:
Shelf life is around a year depending upon the shelf life remaining of your oils.
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