Ditch the store body cream and make a fantastic blend of natural oils that will soften, moisturize, and soothingly caress your skin. There are many simple recipes for body butter but this one is so luxurious! Let’s start with coconut oil, a great moisturizer. Add shea butter which has so many benefits for the skin and is great in homemade beauty products. Throw in some cocoa butter with antioxidant qualities that take care of most signs of aging, and also protects the skin from outside agents as well. The antioxidants and beneficial organic molecules protect the skin from environmental, internal, and external forces that can cause irritation or damage to the skin. Finally add some almond oil (or other favorite oil such as avocado or grape seed oil) and Vitamin E and you have a perfect delight for your dry skin. And the best part, it smells like chocolate.
Whipped Body Butter
Use organic when available.
Whipped Body Butter
Materials
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1/2 cup shea butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa butter
- 1/2 cup 1/2 cup almond oil (olive oil, grape seed, avocado or jojoba oil)
- 1 tsp Vitamin E
- optional 2 to 4 drops essential oil
Instructions
- Measure all butters and oil into a glass jar
- Cover the bottom of a slow cooker with water
- Turn slow cooker on high
- Put the glass jar in the center of the water
- Let it stay until the oils melt
- Stir with a wooden popsicle stick occasionally to combine the oils
- Remove from heat and let cool
- Add essential oil if using and stir
- Chill in your refrigerator for an hour or two until set
- Remove from the refrigerator and use a mixer to blend
- Start on low and slowly turn the speed higher until the lotion becomes light and fluffy (around 3–5 minutes)
- Store in a glass jar and keep in a cool place
- If necessary in the future, you can refluff it with the mixer
- Butter should keep for 3 to 6 months if kept cool
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What a great idea both healthier and practical. I like knowing what’s in my stuff.
Hi Carol, I currently use coconut oil on my skin, but would love to have a go at this. I’m not sure I’ll be able to find shea butter and cocoa butter though. I’ll have to pop into the health shop next time I’m in town.
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Check out amazon too. They have it on the US site so I’m assuming it would be there on a European version. Coconut oil is great if you can’t find shea. I’d be surprised if you don’t have cocoa butter.
I’ve been making a lotion with almond oil, coconut oil and shea butter and I love it but I haven’t tried adding cacao butter yet. Might need to add that next time.
Your combo sounds great to me. Let me know if you like it after adding caco butter.
The chocolate scent sounds like a bonus!
Sounds like a good idea Carol. I would love to try 🙂 Thanks for sharing at Welcome To The Weekend Blog Hop hope you’re having a lovely weekend.
This does sound heavenly! My skin gets so incredibly dry in the winter, this sounds like it would be incredibly moisturizing. Thank you so much for sharing it with us on Party in Your PJ’s. I’m pinning it so I can make it!
Hope it does the trick for your skin!
Going to make this love it. Found you on Tuesdays with a Twist link party.
Thank you for this recipe. I go through lots of body butter and my skin will appreciate the natural ingredients. Thank you for sharing with us this week at Celebrate Your Story and we hope you will join us again next week.
This sounds AMAZING!! Pinning this to the MMBH board.
I really want to try this- thanks for sharing!
xo
thanks – have a great Sunday!
Carol, I’ll be sharing your body butter on my Merry Monday weekly roundup tomorrow – stop by to check it out!
Thanks Roseann – I will.