Skin Nourishing Body Butter Formula
Now, this is when FORMULATIONS can be so much fun. You can change the ingredients to suit your needs, so if you want a body butter to have a calming and relaxing scent, then you can change the essential oils to lavender or lemongrass. If want a more balancing anti-inflammatory body butter, then Jojoba oil or Argan oil is a good choice. There are a variety of oils and butters and each has special qualities and properties.
It can be difficult to choice which to use. Research and study the ingriedients you would like to use and experiment with SMALL BATCHES to see if it works for you.
In this formulation: the emollient consists of 70% hard butter and 29% oil with 1% Fragrance.
The formulation can have one oil or a combination of oils and one or a combination of hard butters. This is where EXPERIMENTING and RESEARCH come in. Try, Experiment and Play till you find what works for you.
I love this Body Butter, it’s highly nourishing and light. This formula contains rosehip oil that is well known for helping prevent and improve skin imperfections. The Orange and Grapefruit essential oils assist to increase skin elasticity and the Wheatgerm oil is renowned for its ability to protect the skin from aging and loss of firmness.
Nourishing Body Butter with Rosehip & Grapefruit Oil
Phase | Ingredient | INCI | Function | % | Weight for 100g |
A | Shea Butter | Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter | Emollient | 70% | 70g |
A | Sunflower Oil | Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil | Emollient | 17% | 17g |
A | Rosehip Oil | Rosa Canina (Rosehip) Seed Oil | Emollient | 6% | 6g |
A | Wheat germ Oil | Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil | Emollient | 6% | 6g |
B | Sweet orange Essential Oil | Citrus Sinensis (Sweet Orange) Oil | Fragrance | 0.5% | 0.5g |
B | Grapefruit Essential Oil | Citrus Paradisii (Grapefruit) Oil | Fragrance | 0.5% | 0.5g |
Instructions
- Combine phase A ingredients in a heat proof beaker and melt in a double boiler
- Once melted, take off the heat and let it cool to 40c. To speed this process up, you can place the beaker in an ice bath.
- Add phase B ingredients and blend by hand until incorporated.
- Cool mixture until it starts to solidify by placing it in the fridge and stirring occasionally.
- Whip with an electric whisk until light and creamy.
- Scoop or Pipe into desired packaging. Allow to set overnight.