Essential By Nature Bergamot Body Butter 200ml

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Calendula Butter: Use calendula infused oil for the oil portion. Optionally add 15 drops of lavender essential oil when mixing. Leave out the essential oil and it can be used on all ages, even pets (ie: for hot spots). The range is handcrafted. Every jar or bottle is individually filled with love and care. This ensures real hands-on quality control. We also changed the unrefined shea butter to refined shea butter, it gives you more control over the final scent of the body butter.

You will also need to test the pH, and adjust it if necessary. This usually involves working with sodium hydroxide, which is quite hazardous. Don't skip the gloves and goggles. They're definitely necessary! Equipment All of these body butters are free of toxic ingredients that can cause irritation or dry out the skin, with only the good stuff your skin needs! But first, let’s make sure we understand what makes a natural body butter good for your skin. What are Natural Body Butters?Let’s have a look at everything that you can include in the DIY butter. What is body butter made of? Our bergamot essential oil has been rectified to remove the phototoxic compounds, so it is safe to use in body butter. Some citrus oils can be phototoxic, which means that they can cause burns if they're on your skin when it is exposed to sunlight. However, they can be used safely if you follow this advice: Cocoa Butter:Cocoa buttercomes from cocoa beans, so it has a strong scent and smells likechocolate.Cocoa butteris hard, atroom temperature, and itmeltseasily. Cocoa butter is naturally a very hard butter, so if you choose to use it, you need to mix it with shea butter or mango butter to make a softer body butter. See other ways to use cocoa butter to make your own body products. An area of our body prone for dryness is our elbows and knees. Apply a bit of eco, natural, organic body butter to theses areas and wait for your skin to be plump and revitalised.

As the butter starts to solidify (when you can make traces with your spatula) start beating the butter with your blender. Whip it to the desired volume and appearance and put it in the fridge. When it comes to essential oils, you can use any that you like. Body butters are versatile so adding you preferred essential oils to the recipe is easy. There are only a few things to consider when adding EOs to your product:

My Body Butter Formulation

While there are many ingredients you need to avoid in body butter in other types of body lotions, there are a few ingredients you should always be on the lookout for and that you should avoid. The ingredients we will discuss today or some of the worst offenders you will often find in body butter and body creams that are dangerous and harmful when applied to the skin. Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) However, not all essential oils are safe to add in these quantities. Here's how you can keep it safe:

Every so often, you’ll see a recipe described as a body butter, but it will have a water based ingredient in it (water, hydrosol, aloe, herbal tea.) While those can be lovely to use, I consider them more of a cream, since once you add these water based things, you’ll need to start thinking about preservatives.The great thing about whipped body butters are that they’re simple to make and contain no sketchy or potentially harmful ingredients that may irritate dry or sensitive skin even further. Do you wash off body butter? As you can see, body conditioners are very easy to make. Also, I love them because they’re versatile and very beginner-friendly as well. You don’t need many ingredients, which makes them budget-friendly, and the oils are very nourishing, which makes them effective as well!