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Home made body butter. 

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A body butter is made by combining solid oils and butters with liquid oils. It can be shea butter, mango butter, cocoa butter, coconut oil,  jojoba oil, sesame oil… from what I’ve read, basically you can make your body butter with any combination, as long as the proportions are 75% solid, 25% oil. I chose to work with cocoa butter and coconut oil as my solid, and sweet almond oil as my liquid. Solid coconut oil? That’s the tropics for you! I live on the equator, and for us coconut oil is always in liquid form, but it hardens easily when it’s cool (below 24 Celcius).

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Homemade Body Butter Recipe

(adapted from Wellness Mama)

Preparation time: 30 minute(s)

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Ingredients

• 1 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup sweet almond oil

Instructions

1. In a bain-marie, melt down your hard butters and oils until fully liquid
2. In a bowl, blend together the melted butters with all of the oils and set in the freezer to harden, about 20 minutes.
3. Once the mixture is solid again, but not too hard, whip it up using an electronic whisk, a food processor with a whisk attachment, a handheld whisk and a bit of elbow grease or your kitchen-aide (lucky!) until you have created fluffy white clouds
4. Spoon it into a clean jar or container. It will keep for months.
5. Slather it on!

p.s. I’m going to re-work the batch using only 75% cocoa butter and 25% coconut oil to see if I like it even more. With this batch, I used coconut oil as part of my 75% hard oil and mixed in sweet almond oil too – but because of where I live, it may be too hot to consider coconut oil “hard” Does that make sense? It may be the reason why my butter feels a bit greasy at first, and even though I love love love how it feels after, I’ll play with the recipe to make it work better for me. If it’s cold where you live – this recipe is probably fine as it is. This richness of this recipe makes it a great night-time lotion for me.  I’m telling you this because it’s always important to play with recipes to make it work for you – and just like cooking, the more you practise and work with your ingredients – the more you understand how they work and how to best use them.