Whipped Body Butter

By dedmund

Ingredients

• 1 cup cocoa butter
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup sweet almond oil

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from ourlittlegreendot.com

Preparation

Step 1

1.In a bain-marie, melt down your hard butters and oils until fully liquid
2.In a bowl, blend together the melted butters with all of the oils and set in the freezer to harden, about 20 minutes.
3.Once the mixture is solid again, but not too hard, whip it up using an electronic whisk, a food processor with a whisk attachment, a handheld whisk and a bit of elbow grease or your kitchen-aide (lucky!) until you have created fluffy white clouds
4.Spoon it into a clean jar or container. It will keep for months.
5.Slather it on!

p.s. I’m going to re-work the batch using only 75% cocoa butter and 25% coconut oil or almond oil to see if I like it even more.

With this batch, I added the coconut oil as part of my 75% hard butter because it hardens easily in cool temperatures. But because of where I live, it may be too hot to consider coconut oil “hard” Does that make sense? It may be the reason why my butter feels a bit greasy at first, and even though I love love love how it feels after, I’ll play with the recipe to make it work better for me. If it’s cold where you live – this recipe is probably fine as it is. This richness of this recipe makes it a great night-time lotion for me. I’m telling you this because it’s always important to play with recipes to make it work for you – and just like cooking, the more you practise and work with your ingredients – the more you understand how they work and how to best use them.