Ross - Homemade Body Butter: 30 Body Butter Recipes for Nourished and Soft Skin Today 

Glenda Ross

2014 Glenda Ross

I want to thank you and congratulate youfor downloading the book, Homemade BodyButter: 30 Body Butter Recipes for Nourished and Soft Skin Today.

This book contains proven steps andstrategies on how you can make nourishing and all-natural body butters right athome. Everything you need to know along with what tools you'll need, as well asthe different benefits that the ingredients would provide your skin with, ishere. Many of these ingredients, as you'll soon learn, can be found in yourpantry at this very moment. Sounds good, right?

Heres an inescapable fact: Every singleday, our skin is exposed to various chemicals from our environment and from thethings we apply on it. This can result to different skin issues and the mostcommon of which is dry skin. Constant hydration is a must if you want to keepit healthy, young-looking, and smooth to the touch. Body butters can accomplishall of those and more. However, the body butters that you can buy from thestores may contain certain chemicals that are not suited for your skin.

Heres the solution - homemade ones thatwould contain ingredients that you chose yourself. Body butters that areall-natural and organic so they won't adversely affect your skin and worsen theproblems further. When it comes to organic ingredients, there's a saying thatif you can eat it then it's good for your skin and body. Your homemade butterswould certainly fall in step with that.

There are many benefits and uses for bodybutters which make them a lot better than the regular store-bought lotion. Theyare not greasy and also contain a lot of nourishing nutrients that your skinneeds for both health and protection. Some uses for these body butters include:

Hand care

Moisturizing roughskin patches

Face moisturizer

Make up remover

After shave legbalm

Lip balm

Alternative massageoil

It's time to bring back your skin's healthand youthful glow the all-natural way! Remember, moisturize and protect to amore beautiful skin!

Alright, how does one get started with making body butters fortheir own use as well as to give away as gifts for friends or perhaps, evenones that can be sold for some extra pocket money? You begin with the righttools. After all, no job gets done right if you don't have the proper equipmentfor it. The things you need for this is pretty basic, and most can be found inyour home. Check out the list below:

1. Storage For this you would need some glass or plastic jars. You can also use aluminum cases such as the ones that used to contain pastilles. You will need to sanitize these, of course, to make sure that your body butter remains clean.

Sanitation can be done through a process called boiling waterbath, which basically requires you to immerse the jars in water then bringingit to a boil. This should take no more than 15 minutes and should only be doneon the day you're actually making the body butters.

1. Scales or measuring spoons These are pretty self-explanatory. You will need these to properly measure out your ingredients and make sure that you're not going overboard with any of them. Too much or too little of one thing can lead to a body butter that's too soft or too firm to whip.
2. A stand or hand mixer You will need this for whipping the body butter into its proper consistency. An electric mixer would do the job faster, of course, but a hand-powered one shouldn't be too troublesome if you have the energy and time for it.
3. A DIY double boiler For this, you just need two pots. One smaller than the other but would fit snugly on top of the larger one. You'll fill the bigger pot halfway with some water before placing the smaller one over it. This neat little contraption would allow you to heat your materials gently without scorching them.
4. Glass bowls Pyrex or anything that's heatproof would be best for this purpose as your ingredients will certainly be hot.
5. Gloves As a safety precaution for when you're handling hot objects.
6. Piping bags These are optional but if you want a mess-free way of getting your body butter into the jars then this would be the best way to do it.

So, there you have it, the basic tools that you will need forthis project. A good number of them, you don't have to purchase, and would alsoallow you to recycle.

Do you think that sesame oil is meant solely for cooking? Notquite. Much like coconut and olive oil, it also has plenty of other uses andbenefits. Among which is its ability properly nourish our skin, leaving itmoisturized and glowing. That's not all that it can do, however. It can protectyour skin from harmful UV rays whenever you go out, and the best bit? It's allnatural so the risk for adverse reactions is very low.

Anti-bacterial Body Butter

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons of sesame oil

cup of coconut oil

6 tablespoons of cocoabutter

15 drops (or more) of teatree oil

Your favorite essential oilto mask the tea tree oil scent

Procedure:

1. In a glass container, melt your cocoa butter over low heat. Use a double boiler for this and make sure it doesn't get too hot, but just enough to melt the solid butter.
2. Once it's melted, remove this from the heat and mix in your sesame and coconut oil. Stir this well.
3. Allow this to solidify either in room temperature or by hastening the process through the use of your freezer.
4. Once it becomes firm and opaque, you can whip it using a mixer for a few minutes. If it doesn't whip well, you can bring it back to the fridge, allowing it to harden once more.
5. Add the tea tree oil before mixing it one last time. Keep this in a sanitized and airtight container. Leaving it in the fridge lengthens its shelf life.

Vanilla Bean Body Butter

Ingredients:

1 cup of cocoa butter (raw)

cup of sweet almond oil

cup of sesame oil

1 vanilla bean

Procedure:

1. Melt your cocoa butter then add the sesame oil. Once mixed properly, remove this from the heat and allow to cool for at least half an hour.
2. Grind your vanilla bean using a food processor.
3. Slowly stir in your almond oil to the cocoa and sesame mixture before adding the vanilla bean bits.
4. Wait for it to partially solidify or place it in the fridge for a half an hour or more if needed.
5. Whip this with your food processor and spoon into a sanitized jar for storage.

Cinnamon Body Butter

Ingredients:

100 grams of coconut oil

30 drops of cinnamon oil

15 drops of sesame oil

50 grams of Shea butter

1 cinnamon stick

Procedure:

1. Melt your cocoa and Shea butter together, make sure the heat remains low and that it doesn't get too hot. Slowly stir in your sesame and coconut oils before turning the heat off.
2. Remove this from the heat and allow it to cool for about 20 minutes.
3. Once it's cooled down, add your cinnamon oil before whipping it until the texture becomes fluffy.
4. If it isn't whipping as planned, you can place it in the fridge for another fifteen minutes before trying again.
5. Break small pieces of the cinnamon stick into the mixture before carefully spooning it into a clean container.

Rose Body Butter

Ingredients:

10 drops of sesame oil

10 grams of jojoba oil

60 grams of refined coconutoil

3 grams of cornstarch

1 ml of alkanet infused oil

10 drops of rose essentialoil

Procedure:

1. Take a glass bowl and in it, mix all of your oils except for the rose one. Add the cornstarch and heat it over a pan of simmering water or using a double boiler. Wait until everything is mixed together.