I have been wanting to make my own body butter for awhile and decided that with my mom's birthday tomorrow this would be the perfect time to try it and give some to her as a gift.
I looked up countless different recipes, pinned on my pinterest page here. The recipe that I followed for the Cocoa Peppermint was found here on the Wellness Mama page. I halved her recipe because I wanted to make two different body butters. The Lemon Cream was found here at gi365. I tweaked this recipe by using shea butter instead of the cacao, used no vitamin E oil, instead used grapeseed oil, and used grapefruit essential oil instead of the lemon.....so, really did I follow this recipe? I guess just the measurements :) I know this one is going to be my favorite because I LOVE the grapefruit smell.
Here are pictures of the process:
Shea Butter
Shea butter, cocoa butter, coconut oil all in a "double boiler"
starting to melt
After melted and chilled it was time to whip in the Kitchen Aid. This process took atleast 5 minutes on a high speed. I did add a couple more tablespoons of solid coconut oil as I wanted the consistency thicker. Appears I make my body butter like I cook, not really following a recipe
Picture of the ingredients. I did not have any doTerra grapefruit oil so compromised with now.
Got these jars at Hobby Lobby during their 50% off sale. Made my own labels.
Had enough left over to add to a small jam canning jar. I added washi tape around the lid for some prettiness :)
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