The Body Shop Shea Body Butter 200 ml

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The number one reason is, of course, because this DIY shea butter body cream is so good for my skin. I’ve also experimented with French green clay and Cambrian blue clay, but the color was too murky/muddy for my tastes. Today, we’re talking about body butters made only with oils and butters – nothing water based, so you won’t need to worry about adding preservatives. The Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment's main ingredient may be avocado oil, but that's not the only moisturizing ingredient that your undereyes will be treated to. It also contains shea butter to soften and prevent skin dehydration while beta-carotene acts as a brightening antioxidant.

Body butters are popular gifts, just remember how they deflate over time, so don’t make them up *too* far in advance. I like to make them up the week before I gift them, and keep them in a fairly cool room until ready to share. For this recipe we will use the cold-whip method using unrefined shea butter as this butter is a semi-soft butter and usually very pliable. There are times shea butter can harden and you will need to melt it however most times you can mash and whip it without using heat. It’s a natural product made from fat extracted from shea seeds. Shea seeds are found within shea fruit which grows on shea trees native to West Africa. As often as you like! Most people apply at night, but I have some favorite body butters that I use as a hand cream during the day. I don’t like the scent of my whipped body butter, how do I fix that? To make the much better quality raw shea butter takes more effort and is often done by hand. In this process, the dried seeds are ground into powder which is roasted.Whipped butter that’s too hard to whip with a stand or hand mixer, will need to be completely melted again. Then add in an extra 1/4 to 1/2 ounce of oil, whip until fluffy, and test to see if you need even more oil added, to get it to your preferred consistency. My body butter is too soft, or melty! 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.) up to 45 drops (or 1 g) essential oils, optional (a 1% dilution rate – use less for a softer scent) If you live in a hot climate, or your house runs hot, and all of your body butters get too soft during storage, try melting everything down and adding in a few tablespoons of melted cocoa butter (unrefined will smell like chocolate, while refined will have a much lighter scent). Cocoa butter, and other hard butters like kokum, will help harden up your body butter.

It’s also fun to try out different essential oils in this recipe, but note while I wouldn’t say shea butter has an overpowering smell, it can be hard for lighter fragrances to stand out when mixed in with raw shea butter. A 4-cup Pyrex or heat-proof glass measuring pitcher is perfect for making body butters! Equipment Needed It only takes minutes to make and it’s fun as well. It’s soft and fantastic 🙂 It Makes A Great Gift I don’t recommend using regular coconut oil in this recipe. It becomes liquid over 76 degrees F, but hard at cooler temperatures, making it unreliable for consistency. Also, regular coconut oil is heavy on your skin, and will make your body butter feel more greasy.goods13 Best body care As another reviewer has mentioned this is a great body butter. Fragrance and texture are great and skin loves it. My completed shea butter body butter. So good! Shea Butter Homemade Lotion Is So Nourishing For Your Skin Shea butter is super nourishing, especially for those with dry skin, eczema, itchy skin, or such. However, it does have a heavier feel and it’s most prone to getting grainy. (See the troubleshooting section below for tips if you experience graininess.) The scent of raw shea butter can be overwhelming, so refined shea butter if most often used in body butters. When not in use, store your final product in a sealed container in a cool dry place, away from direct sunlight

I hope you have found this shea butter body lotion recipe awesome as well. Let me know what you think of this recipe by leaving a shea butter body butter review above. My skin loves this cream and so do I. In fact, I absolutely love touching my skin now. It’s so soft with this homemade body cream with shea butter. This DIY Lotion With Shea Butter Is All Natural They not only can give it a nice smell, but different essential oils have their own benefits they can add to the body butter for you. You can use one or mix a few together to form a blend with multiple benefits. I have successfully made this formula with other butters though – see below for a few substitution tips. When it comes to making body butter than is lighter and less greasy, there are two main things I recommend.Tella A. (1979). Preliminary studies on nasaldecongestant activity from the seed of the shea butter tree, Butyrospermumparkii. For lighter smells, like rose, you may need to add more essential oils. Below, I share what works for me but you’ll need to work out the levels that are best and safe for you. The other thing I recommend is adding arrowroot powder to your body butter. While you can make body butter without it, it can help absorb excess oil. So can tapioca powder or cornstarch. I find it makes a noticeable different to how greasy my body butters feel and it also has some benefits of its own. More about that below. Ingredients In A Non-Greasy Shea Butter Lotion Recipe The Soft Services Buffing Bar won an Allure Best of Beauty Award in 2022 for its keratosis pilaris- and ingrown hair-reducing powers, which are all thanks to skin-buffing microcrystal exfoliants. This bar also contians shea butter to soothe and moisturize exfoliated skin for a buttery-smooth feel without redness or irritation. Kao J-H, et al. (2016). Shea nut oil triterpeneconcentrate attenuates knee osteoarthritis development in rats: Evidence fromknee joint histology. DOI:

Ayankunle AA, et al. (2012). Antibacterialactivity and sub-chronic toxicity studies of Vitellaria paradoxa stembark extract. DOI: Micali G, et al. (2018). Evidence-basedtreatment of atopic dermatitis with topical moisturizers [Abstract]. DOI: Rosehip Waterless Cream: Replace 0.4 oz (11 g) of the oils with rosehip seed oil. Since it’s heat sensitive, wait to add the rosehip oil until after you removed the melted mixture from the heat. Optional essential oils: 10 drops rose absolute, 10 drops lavender, 1 drop frankincense Even if you have a favorite body butter recipe you already like, but it’s a little bit too heavy/greasy for your tastes, you can substitute lighter oils for one or more of the heavier oils in your recipe. Heavy Oils (use less of these, combine with light oils)Avocado Butter (+ less oil) – For this sub, you don’t need as much oil. A good ratio is 5.6 oz (159 g) avocado butter + 1.4 oz (40 g) liquid oils. Safflower oil and shea butter ready to whip Homemade Shea Butter Lotion Vs DIY Shea Butter Body Butter You can scoop into containers right away, but for a fluffier butter – cover the butter and let it sit overnight and rewhip it with your mixer the next day, adding more oil if needed to make it a lighter consistency, then fill into containers. Lavender – my personal favorite. Lavender is great for skin and smells beautiful. It’s known for being relaxing and helping you be alert