How to Make Your Own Body Butters

Body butter is an all-natural skin moisturizer that can easily be made at home with a few ingredients. This recipe is perfect for individuals interested in a green lifestyle. This tutorial will walk you through the steps on how to make your own body butters.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1-1/3 cup shea butter
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 tsp vitamin e
• Medium saucepan
• Container to store end product

1. You should be able to locate the ingredients for homemade body butter in your local health food store. There are also a plethora of websites that sells these items as well.

2. In the saucepan, heat the shea butter over a low heat until it reaches liquid form. Do not let the shea butter heat up too fast. Once liquid form is achieved, remove the saucepan from the heat.

3. Add the olive oil to the shea butter and allow the mixture to cool in the saucepan for about 30 minutes. Once cooled, add the vitamin e.

4. Using a hand-held mixer, whip the ingredients until it has a very light texture. Transfer the final product to a storage container of your choice, being sure not to over pack or the mixture will lose it's light texture.

5. Body butter can be applied directly to the skin.

Tips & Warnings

• Add a 1/2 ounce of your choice of essential oil when you add the vitamin e if you prefer scented body butter.
• Handmade body butter makes a wonderful gift.

Resources

• View More of My Articles
• ehow Going Green Guide

[Gottaloveit]

on 4/11/2009 Wow! This recipe for body butter sounds great and my dry skin will love it. Thanks.