How to Make Whipped Body Butter With Natural Ingredients

Fluffy body butter made with all natural and non toxic ingredients. This body butter is made with cocoa butter, shea butter, coconut oil, and olive oil. Perfect on its own or with a little essential oil whipped in.

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Whether you are a new mom who has to wash their hands a bajillion times a day or just a homemaker doing homemaker things, this recipe is for you!

Benefits of Whipped Body Butter

• Helps sooth dry itchy skin
• Moisturizes deeply
• Can aid in healing cracked skin
• No nasty, toxic chemicals and fragrances on your skin leaching into your blood stream
• Safe enough to eat, though it probably won’t taste great
• Can be used on the whole family
• Can be used on eczema and rashes
• Cost effective
• Great as a gift on its own or in a gift basket

How long do Whipped Body Butters last?

This recipe will typically last how long your shortest expiration date of ingredients will last. They all have a pretty long shelf life so if you just bought the ingredients then your body butter should last about a year.

Should I refrigerate my body butter?

It is not necessary to refrigerate your whipped body butter, but it may be a good idea. If you live in a particularly hot environment then keeping it in the refrigerator might be the best option for you. It can also help preserve your whipped body butter a little longer, as long as it is sealed and no moister has entered it.

How to Make homemade body butter less greasy

Homemade body butter can feel really greasy on your hands and body. With all the wonderful oils and butters to moisturize your skin, this is bound to happen. Luckily there is a simple fix to this problem and it might even make your homemade body butter even better!

Arrowroot powder for greasy body butter

Arrowroot powder is the simple solution to your greasy butter problems! If you don’t know Arrowroot powder is great for cutting through that oily feeling. Not only that but it actually helps the body butter absorb more quickly making it work faster for dry and cracked hands.

How to Make Whipped Body Butter

Ingredients

• Cocoa Butter
• Shea Butter
• Olive Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Essential oils: About 40 drops for this recipe. – Optional ( good options are: lavender, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Ylang ylang)

Tools

• Double boiler- You can make one by putting a bowl over a pot of boiling water
• Whisk (a hand mixer/stand mixer work great)
• Jars to put it in.

Directions

Melt 1/2 cup of each Cocoa butter, Shea butter, Olive oil, and Coconut oil in the double boiler or equal parts of each.

Once fully melted take it off the double boiler

Place the bowl into the fridge or freezer till its partially firm

Take the bowl out of the freezer

Add Essential Oils if desired

Whip the body butter with an electric whisk until Light and fluffy

Put into jars with a spatula or pipe it in for a pretty look

Notes

You don’t have to be exact, just do your best to guess.

Cocoa butter is really hard so try to just chop off a piece that looks about equal to the proportions of the other ingredients.

If you choose to use Essential Oils, make sure you use a safe oil that can be used topically. Also be aware of citrus oils, especially if you will be out in the sun! Please don’t use citrus oils if you will be using it when out side, because they are phototoxic.

This Tutorial is actually quite simple and all you need is equal parts for the main ingredients! I used 1/2 cup measurements but please feel free to cut it in half or double it!

If you don’t want to use essential oils you can leave them out! I think the whipped body butter smells delicious on its own if I’m being honest. It smells a bit like chocolate because of the cocoa butter.

Another option would to use an extract Like Vanilla extract. I have never tried it myself to see how it would turn out so be cautious and let me know how it turns out if you did!

Another idea is infusing herbs like lavender into the olive oil and using that in place of regular olive oil! Again, I haven’t tried that but I’m sure it would work perfectly in it! I’m definitely going to try it this way next time I make it!