Essential By Nature Bergamot Body Butter 200ml

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Antifungal, antibacterial, and rich in fatty acids, we’re sure you already know how special coconut oil is. The coconut oil we use is from Sri Lanka. With its healing properties and a natural SPF of around 4, it protects your skin from the sun and potential pathogens. Cocoa Butter Because of this, we decided to let students (and graduates who want to participate in the challenge) make a very simple butter formulation. We keep to our Keep-It-Silly-Simple (KISS) principle in all of our challenges. Regular coconut oil (also called 76 degree coconut oil) will turn solid when chilled under 76 degrees F. It’s best used in soapmaking and cooking, though some like it in their skin care too. It soaks into your skin slowly, and tends to make body butter feel greasy or oily. Just make up a new batch of body butter and mix the too-strongly-colored batch together with it. It will lighten it in half. (Mix with a double batch of plain body butter, if you need to tone down the color more drastically.) The body butter is probably one of the first things you learn to make when you get into homemade skincare. It was the same for me.

The ingredients used in this homemade whipped body butter recipe are all natural, this means they can melt if they are left somewhere too warm. It's best to store the body butter in a cool, dry place and out of direct sunlight. Your mixture should start to look a little slushy once it is cold, now it is ready for whipping! Use an electric whisk (or a hand whisk if you’re feeling strong!) and whip it up until it looks similar to whipped cream.Now that we know the basics of toxic ingredients to avoid in more than just body butters, let’s take a look at an example that I’m sure you’ve already seen in real life. Are The Body Shop Body Butters Natural? As we know, most body butter and the conventional form and the organic form are scented. however, anytime you go the conventional route you were going to find fragrance or perfume in the ingredient list. Unless it is specifically specified as fragrance coming from extracts or essential oils, these fragrances are going to be synthetic and dangerous. That’s one single problem I haven’t been able to resolve yet. Since it’s all butters and oils, they act like butters and oils and there hasn’t been much I could do about it. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, it’s the time of the year when the skin needs fat-rich products to protect it against the cold and dry weather. You can add essential oils to your creamy moisturizer as well. There are dozens of essential oil brands out there, a sea of essential oil options, so choose what suits your nose best. 4. Add a splash of color

First, you want to look into using refined butters. Unrefined shea butter especially has a strong scent that I don’t care for, so I always use the refined kind. The Three Gems Body Butter contains only the pure goodness of organic shea butter, coconut oil, cocoa butter, and natural vitamin e.This ingredient is included in body butter as a stabilizer and a preservative. BHA is considered a human carcinogen, which means that the ingredient has been proven to cause cancer in humans. BHA is also known as an endocrine disruptor, which is particularly bad for females and their reproductive systems. Fragrance + Parfum Almost all of their body butters (and several other products) contained “fragrance” and artificial dyes, like “yellow 5” and “blue 1.” There were other ingredients that I haven’t talked about in this post as well. You do not need to keep body butters in the fridge, unless you live in an ultra-hot climate, then it might be helpful. Do you have to use a preservative in body butter?

Place in the refrigerator to cool, about 35 to 55 minutes, or until it turns opaque and develops a solid layer on top.

Tripled whipped Cocoa & Shea Butters

I’ve been using body butter for years. It’s a tool in my skin care cabinet that I love to use to help my skin stay hydrated during the cold winter months. Step 1.In a suitable vessel (a beaker for example) melt the babassu oil, Shea butter and cocoa butter in a water bath. I know many tutorials recommend adding shea butter at the end of the process and not melting it from the beginning. I have however, never had any issue with applying shea butter from the very beginning and since the heating phase is really short, there is no damage in heating Shea butter with other solid fats and butters. When it comes to choosing natural and organic body butter, it is not a complicated process, but it can take some time to find one that has completely clean ingredients and can also work well for your skin. Cocoa butter is so intoxicating with its beautiful scent of chocolate. Yes, please! This butter combines all the nourishing ingredients that your skin will love. I made it during the summer, but since it’s greasy, I mostly use it during the winter now. Cardamom shimmering BB First of all, choose your butters. While some are very popular, you can also test new butters and see how you like them. That’s how I discovered mango butter and haven’t been able to take my hands off it ever since!

I never notice a need for moisturizer throughout the rest of the year. In the winter, when the wood stove is burning, and I’m taking long hot baths, my skin gets so dry. This body butter goes on smooth and is so nourishing for the skin. Be careful using citrus oils, like lemon or orange, since they can make your skin photosensitive. If you do use them, don’t go out in the sun for awhile. Or, simply use this body butter at night. When I first started making my own personal care and household products, I worried I would never use up all the ingredients. Now I know the same basic ingredients can be used to make so many things! There are many places to buy organic body butters including local grocery stores, online retailers, and health food stores. Some popular brands include Avalon Organics, The Body Shop, and Lush. Final Thoughts

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This basic recipe can be used as a template to make all sorts of unique body butters! You’ll find a few personalization ideas below, and even more ideas and formulas in the All Natural Body Butters Guide you can grab later in this article.