Whipped Body Butter
This homemade whipped body butter is a luxurious treat for dry skin.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shea butter
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup grapeseed oil
- 1 Tbsp arrowroot powder
- essential oils, optional
Instructions
- You need a double-boiler to melt the ingredients together. If you don't have a double-boiler, you can create a makeshift one with a saucepan and a bowl. Be sure the bowl will sit in the saucepan but doesn't touch the bottom.
- Add about 2″ water to a saucepan. Heat the water over medium heat. Add the shea butter, coconut oil, and grapeseed oil to the mixing bowl (I use my Kitchen Aid mixing bowl for this.) and place the mixing bowl over the saucepan of water. Be sure that the water can't splash into the bowl.
- As the mixture melts, stir occasionally. As soon as everything is melted, remove it from the heat.
- Stir in the arrowroot powder. You may have to use a spatula to press the arrowroot powder against the side of the bowl to help disperse it. Don't worry if you don't get it totally mixed in. When you whip it with the mixer it will incorporate all of it.
- Add your desired combination of essential oils (see below) and stir to mix. Place the mixing bowl full of oils in the refrigerator and allow to cool at least 1 hour, but not more than 2 hours or it will become too hard. Remove the mixing bowl from the refrigerator and whip the mixture using a mixer.
- If the mixture looks too soft, return it to the refrigerator for another 30 minutes. If the mixture is too hard to whip, allow it to soften on the counter for 15 minutes or so until soft enough to whip.
- Gently spoon whipped body butter into containers. I love to use mason jars because they can be washed and reused later but these plastic containers would also work well.
- Don't press too hard when putting it into the jars. You don't want to press out all the air you whipped into it. This mixture will fill three 4 oz. jars completely with some leftover for yourself!
Notes
Here are some essential oil scent combinations you might like to use in your homemade body butter.
- Chocolate Peppermint-use cocoa butter instead of shea butter and use 20 drops peppermint essential oil
- Coconut Lime-use unrefined coconut oil (will smell like coconuts) instead of refined coconut oil and use 20 drops lime essential oil
- Lavender-use 30 drops lavender essential oil
- Orange spice-use 20 drops orange essential oil, 8 drops cinnamon leaf essential oil, and 6 drops clove essential oil
- Vanilla-use 20 drops vanilla essential oil