How to Make Your Own Homemade Body Butter

Difficulty:

 

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Beeswax
• Cocoa Butter
• Shea Butter
• Double Boiler or Microwave Oven
• Olive Oil
• Jojoba Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Essential Oil (your choice)

1. • 1
     The first step in making homemade body butter is to gather the ingredients. This is possibly the most difficult part.

     Body butter is made from an assortment of oils, as well as beeswax and cocoa butter and shea butter. You'll need those, as well as olive oil, jojoba oil, coconut oil, and any essential oil you would like.

     Fortunately, many of these items are readily available online - and usually for less than you'll pay in local stores for the same products.
   • 2
     For preparing the body butter you will need either a double boiler or a microwave oven. You will also need a hand mixer.

     Once you have all of these ingredients, measure them out. You'll need two ounces each of the butters and one ounce each of the beeswax and each of the oils, with the exception of the essential oil; you only need a few drops of that.

     Take these and mix them together by hand in either the top pot of your double boiler or in a microwave safe bowl.
   • 3
     Having combined the ingredients, proceed to melt them down slowly. If you are doing this in the microwave, do it in short chunks of time, stirring and checking the mixture frequently.

     If you're melting them in a double boiler, then it will be easier to keep track of the melting rate.

     Neither melting technique should take very long since you are only actually melting a few of the ingredients and the rest are already liquids.
   • 4
     Once the ingredients are combined and melted, remove them from the heat source and mix them with the hand mixer while they cool.

     In making homemade body butter, like making actual butter, you will see peaks in the surface of the mixture when it has reached the correct thickness and temperature and is ready.
   • 5
     With your homemade body butter complete, put it into a jar or container of your choice and put it away for use. Slather it on after your next bath or shower to experience the soft skin that your hard work has earned you!

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How To Make Coconut Body Butter for Dry Skin

1. Prepare the ingredients—2 ounces of cocoa butter, 2 ounces of shea butter, 1 ounce of extra virgin olive oil, 1 ounce of virgin coconut oil, 1 ounce of jojoba oil, 1 ounce of beeswax and drops of your favorite essential oil.
2. Prepare the tools or equipment—a double boiler or microwave oven, a bowl and a mixer. In case a microwave oven and a double boiler are not available, you can make use of your pot and your mixing bowl. Put your bowl on top of the pot with boiling water. Water level should not reach the bottom of your mixing bowl.
3. Mix all the ingredients listed above in a bowl. Melt the mixed ingredients, preferably in a double boiler or microwave oven. This would not take too long. Be careful to overdo the melting process lest it would have an effect to the consistency of your coconut body butter.
4. Once melted, remove it from the double boiler. Using an electric mixer, blend it while being cooled until it forms a peak. This is like making a meringue. Once the mixture forms a peak, it is ready.
5. Transfer your coconut body butter into your prepared container. This would also be an ideal gift for your friends, family members and even giveaways for parties.

A thirsty dry skin can be pampered by applying coconut body butter. It is a real treat for your dry skin because it soothes rough, flaky and itchy skin. A commercially made body butter, which is more expensive, has the same effect with your coconut body butter in providing an intensive body moisturizing effect to your dry skin. With your homemade coconut body butter, you are spared from buying an expensive body moisturizer.

http://www.howtodothings.com/fashion-personal-care/how-to-make-coconut-body-butter-for-dry-skin

Stretch Mark Body Lotion Recipe

 litsea cubeba 

These bars have a high emollient content and can help you minimize stretch marks during your pregnancy.

Ingredients
1 ounce sweet almond oil
1.5 ounces mango butter
1.5 ounces jojoba oil
2 ounces beeswax
2 ounces shea butter
2 ounces cocoa butter
1/2 teaspoon litsea cubeba essential oil
1 teaspoon ylang ylang essential oil

Place all ingredients into pot
Melt on a low to medium heat just until melted
Let cool down but not until mixture begins to solidify
Add the litsea cubeba and ylang ylang oil
Mix well and pour into 4 - 2.5 oz. sticks
Allow to set until mixture begins to solidify then close and cover

Lavender & Calendula Lotion Recipe

Ingredients:
1/8 teaspoon borax
1/2 teaspoon lavender essential oil
1 teaspoon beeswax
1/2 tablespoon aloe vera jelly
1 tablespoon calendula petals
1 tablespoon apricot kernel oil
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1 tablespoon jojoba oil
4 tablespoons almond oil
1/2 cup distilled water

Heat the almond oil, apricot kernal oil, coconut oil, jojoba oil, aloe vera jelly, and beeswax until the beeswax is melted
Set oil mixture aside and allow to cool
Dissolve the borax in the distilled water
Heat it to a slow simmer
Pour the oil mixture into a blender
Turn on blender and slowly add the borax and water solution 
Add lavender essential oil and the calendula petals
Continue to blend until well mixed and the lotion has thickened
Turn off blender once the mixture has cooled down to room temperature
Pour into a container and cover 
Refridgerate and allow the lotion to set completly before use

Note
Keep refridgerated as this recipe does not contain preservatives.

BASIC LIP GLOSS RECIPE

Ingredients
tablespoons coconut oil
1 tablespoon cocoa butter
2 teaspoons beeswax
10-20 drops jojoba oil
optional - drops of honey or flavoring or vitamin E oil

Recipe

1.       Melt the coconut oil, cocoa butter, and beeswax in a double boiler or over hot water.

2.       Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.

3.       Stir in the jojoba oil and any additional ingredients.

4.       Pour the balm into a clean container. Set the lid on top of the container, but slightly ajar to allow any moisture to escape.

5.       Seal the container once the lip balm has cooled/solidified.

Antiseptic Balm ( Use instead of antiseptic ointment, this is far superior! )

Ingredients:
2 ounces Beeswax
3 ounces Sweet Almond Oil
1 ounce Jojoba Oil 
20 drops Wheatgerm Oil
20 drops Myrrh Essential Oil 
20 drops Tea Tree Essential Oil 

( Makes enough to fill 4 each 1 ounce salve jars or 1 ounce metal tins )

A rule of thumb is 2 parts oil to one part beeswax. Simply heat the Sweet Almond and Jojoba oil in a saucepan and add Beeswax. If you want a thin consistency ( such as a cream or Vaseline ) add only a little bit of Beeswax. Want it thicker like wax? Just add more Beeswax.
Allow the base to cool down to see what the consistency is like. If it's too thick, add more Sweet Almond oil and reheat, too thin?, add more Beeswax.
As the base is cooling add the essential oils to enhance the healing effect of the balm. These essential oils can be found in our Essential Oil List.
After you have added the essential oil and the lip balm is still warm enough to pour, carefully pour it into Salve Jars or Metal Tins.

Solid Perfume

Ingredients:
3 parts Sweet Almond or Jojoba oil
2 parts White beeswax
1 part Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oil, choose from our huge line of Rachel's Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oils 

Melt all ingredients over double boiler until well mixed and integrated. Pour into containers and let cool.

Cocoa butter lip balm

For 20gr:

• 5gr Beeswax
• 5gr Cocoa Butter
• 10gr Jojoba oil or Almond oil

Melt beeswax, cocoa butter and oil together in bain-marie. When the mix is liquid, quickly pour into small containers and let set.

* It moisturizes  chapped lips and it is smooth to apply, although i would recommend putting the mixture in retractable lipstick tube, cause it gets too hard to be put in a small pot.

found the recipe here:

http://www.optiderma.com/en/healthy-skin-tips/skin-care-recipes/cocoa-butter-lip-balm.html#comm