Sounds Good enough to Eat
This is my homemade body butter, it was a success (I think?). I have never made body butter so this is all new to me but here is my recipe. I thought at first it was going to be too oily, it looks thick but when you put it in your hands it litterly melts into butter. I slathered it on thinking I made a mistake but my skin actually drank it up and left me not feeling oily at all, weird. Dont' know if that is what is supposed to happen or not? My skin is so soft after using this, I smell awesome too. .JPG)
So here is the recipe:
Step 1. Four ingredients, put into double boiler
2 oz coco butter
3-4 oz of shea butter
1/2 cup of coconut oil
2 tbsp of beeswax grated
Step 2. after you turn off the heat and all the above is melted you can add the oils you have chosen (only using 1/2 cup), you can combine any oils as long as they all add up to 1/2 cup. You can use meadowfoam, jojoba, I used olive oil and avocado oil.
Step 3. wait until oils and butters have cooled about 5 min then add the fragrance, vitamin E oil and aloe vera
For the fragrance I used all of the ones listed below. They are safe grade true essential oils (make sure they are just not fragrance oils but essential oils that can be used on skin). I am using these oils not only for scent but to help fight any bacteria or fungus that may want to enter my concoction, basically they help against any icky organisms. Also, a note here, we are not adding any water to this recipe therefore there is no need to add any preservatives. If you add water you must use a commercial grade preservative. I am still using these precautionary essential oils and keeping mine in the fridge but there is no need, I am just anal lol. You don't have to use any essential oils, it's all up to you what you want to smell like. Wish there was a bacon essential oils as my husband would be attracted to me all day, haha, lol.
If you have a double boiler great, if not just fill a big pot with about 2 cups of water and get a smaller pot and put it inside the bigger pot. one key point here is that I did not use any water for this recipe therefore you do not need to add any preservatives. Put all the first 4 ingredients into the double boiler and melt all the way (don't let it burn) do it slowly, very slowly, on low heat. what I did was take it off the heat every now and then and stirred it off the heat so it would get too hot. Once I took it off the stove I stirred in everything in step three which includes the oils you have chosen and vitamin E if you want to put that in. Then I took it off the heat and added the essential oils I have chosen, if you have chosen none that is fine too. I put it in the fridge and when it looked like Vaseline not that hard but not liquid either, then whip with your handheld blender for about 2 min. Then put back into fridge. After about 10 min it will harden a bit more, take it out and whip it some more with your blender. I did this until soft peaks formed and it looked like I could eat it. Then I put it in some clean sanitized jars and slathered it on. There you go........butter yourself up bitches lol........
