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body butter help!

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10:42 pm
August 28, 2007


Robin

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I have found a fantastic whipped body butter recipe and I'd like to duplicate it myself as the lady who sells it is going out of business. 

I have the ingredients, but have no idea how to put these ingredients together, i.e, do I need to melt to a certain temperture, do I need to whip this for a certain amount of time, approximately how much do I need of each ingredient, etc.? 

This is a very fluffy white butter and not greasy at all. 

The ingreditents are below in order as they are on the packaging.  Any help would be very, very apprecipated. 


African Shea butter

Cocoa butter

Candella Wax

Babassu oil

Sweet Almond Oil

Water

Stearic Acid

Essential oil

 thanks so much! 

11:15 pm
October 5, 2007


kathkwilts

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If I was a newbie lotioncrafter and I wanted to make this butter without knowing the recipe, I would first substitute the candellia wax with emulsifying wax to insure a good emulsion, as candellia wax is not a good emulsifier.

I would melt this with equal proportions of the stearic acid and the other oils and butters in very small amounts (1 oz each) in a double boiler until melted. When melted completely, I'd place the oils in a stand mixer and drizzle in an equal amount of hot water (6 oz in this case) while mixing on slow speed (or use a stick blender in a tall container - but this won't give the mixture a true whipped texture). As the mixture thickened, I'd speed up the mixer, incrementally, as fast as it would go without splashing. I'd do this until, as the mixture becomes thick, I'd be whipping it like whipped cream. When cool, I'd add about 1-1/2 teaspoons of essential oil while whipping and then put it into jars to stiffen up a bit. This would result in 12 oz of ingredients whipped up to about 16 oz of whipped butter.

 If you make small amounts and take copious notes, you can adjust the proportions of oils and waters as needed in subsequent batches. This way, you can custom-tailor the cream to your tastes.

 Otherwise, I'd use the following recipe, which I wrote for you:

Yield:  8 oz  
       
  % oz gr
Distilled Water 60.0% 4.80 136.08
E-Wax 7.0% 0.56 15.88
Stearic Acid 3.0% 0.24 6.80
Shea Butter 10.0% 0.80 22.68
cocoa butter 5.0% 0.40 11.34
Almond Oil 10.0% 0.80 22.68
Babassu Oil 5.0% 0.40 11.34
  100.0% 8.00 226.80
Add when cool:      
Germall Plus 0.2% 0.02 0.45
Essential Oil(s) 2.0% 0.16 4.54

 If you follow the same procedures as above, this will result in about 12 oz of whipped butter.

 However, I must tell you - I tested both recipes and I BY FAR prefer the first recipe using equal proportions of each. It works beautifully. The second recipe is more like a cream than a whipped butter. You might also try substituting coconut oil for the cocoa butter in the first recipe. It gives a wonderful silkiness to the butter.

 Hope this helps.

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