Coconut and Lemonade Body Butters
Have dry skin? Love scented lotions from the fancy body and bath stores?
Well, if your answer is yes to at least one of these questions, I recommend that you try making body butter at home. I learned how to make these rich and creamy lotions today and it is Super Fun.
Bam-Bam has a friend at preschool whose Mom has been making body butters for over a year now and invited us over for a body butter party.
I thought that the process would be very intricate and time consuming, but it actually only took two hours and was really very easy.
The body butters that you create at home are so much more rich and creamy than what you find in the stores. It probably has to do with the freshness factor. Also, the scents are easy to control because you add the scents yourself. Using a pipette, you add the scent drop by drop to create the perfect strength of the scent for your personal taste.
Choosing your scent
One of the best parts of the process is getting to choose your scent. There are many to choose from
including: jasmine, gardenia, lemon sugar, blue raspberry, chocolate brownie, cotton candy, hazelnut, grapefruit, vanilla cupcake, root beer float and the list goes on.
Scents for Body Butter
Preparing the Body Butter Base
We used two bases, luxury body butter base and shea butter from Save on Scents. If you add a little shea butter, the body butter is even more moisturizing than with only the luxury body butter base.
Body Butter Bases
You do not need to add much shea butter for a highly moisturizing effect.
Melt the shea butter in a double boiler
Then add the luxury body butter base and melt together, constantly stirring.
Whip Shea Butter and Luxury Body Butter together
Time to add Scents and Coloring
Once the body butter bases are mixed together well, it is time to gather your scents and add some color.
Scents and Jars
We lined up all of the scents with their jars and scent droppers (pipettes). The droppers are important, because you really only want to add a little at a time to arrive at your perfect scent.
Pouring body butter base into jars
Time to add the wonderful colors and scents to the prepared body butter bases.
Adding Color and Scents
Body Butters ready for the freezer
Look at these beauties ready for the last step, a trip to the freezer for about 20 minutes.
Body Butters Ready for Freezer
Finished Product
You can get creative and make fun labels for the jars with fun colors and pictures relating to your scents.
Finished Products
Our Body Butter Flavors for the Day
Broadway came home with lemon sugar, jasmine, lemon tart, ocean breeze, and island gardenia.
Imagineer made root beer float, grapefruit, deep fried ice cream, awapuhi seaberry, orange whip, and blackberry.
I made jasmine, island gardenia, blue raspberry, hazelnut and lemonade.
SO fun and easy. These butters will last for a long time as they are really rich, so a little goes a long way.
Do you have any homemade projects that you enjoy doing? If so, I would love to hear about it below in the comment area.
I never would have thought to make my own body butter but it sounds awesome.
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It really is fun. I had never considered making my own lotions at home either. I’m so glad I know about this little secret now! After my swim workout this morning, I put the blue raspberry body butter on, and the smell and moisturizing effects are fantastic.
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Thanks for stopping by. I’m really enjoying my body butters, especially the blue raspberry and jasmine scents. Just hopped over to your blog and checked out your summer bag post. Really love your writing style. Very jealous that you live in Hawaii – one of my favorite places in the world. I want to be a surfer one day….. 🙂
That’s fantastic – how easy is that? I never would have even attempted something like this! I wonder if these would be good for my son – he has very sensitive skin. Hmmm…
I’m visiting from the Hop and I’m now following you via Twitter and Pinterest. Can’t wait to see more posts!
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Wow, this is amazing! I want to try it, but i don’t know what kind of colorant i could use. Do you add just normal food colors? Tank for for showing the how to. Many greetings
When adding the luxury body butter into the double boiler,did you use the whole container? I know it says that you don’t have to use a lot of Shea butter. What did you use for color? Can I also purchase that on the same website that you purchased the base from? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Kellie
Yes, we used the whole container, and then about one to two tablespoons of shea butter. The shea butter goes a long way. The colorants were purchased at http://www.elementsbathandbody.com/Water-Soluble-Liquid-Colorants-c-275.html. The colorants come in easy to use dropper bottles. You really only need one-three drops for the colors to be deep, which is nice because the dropper bottles last for a very long time. Hopefully this helps! Have fun! 🙂