1 2 cup beeswax pastilles.
Body butter bars without beeswax.
The easiest body butter bars ever.
The second is orange and vanilla body butter.
If you don t like the greasy feeling that beeswax leaves on the skin try this lotion bar recipe without beeswax.
Place a glass jar i use an old mason jar in the center of the water.
You may want to stir it.
The smell is reminiscent of a creamsicle and uses sweet orange essential oil and vanilla extract or concentrated vanilla absolute.
I like to take care of my skin but one of the things i find more challenging is finding the time to moisturize my body.
Best of luck with your body butter and stay tuned for many diy recipes using this body butter as a base to follow.
A typical body butter recipe is heavier on the shea butter and does not contain beeswax.
You can substitute cocoa or shea butter for beeswax but it doesn t work in products like lip balm or lotion bars as those rely on wax for firmness.
Essential oils for scent this is optional but definitely makes even better.
And when looking for something practical to save time i found lotion bars.
Diy hard body butter bars ingredients.
Rose lotion bars no beeswax lotion bar.
1 3 cup shea butter 1 3 cup cocoa butter 1 3 cup almond meal 10 drop rose water.
A basic body butter recipe is 4 parts coconut oil 2 parts shea butter and 1 part beeswax.
Fill a saucepan with water about half way up.
Both cocoa butter and cupuacu butter are very hard at room temperature and make a great base for lotion bars.
Stir in the vitamin e mt 50 usa canada if you re using it.
Fill a sauce pan with a few inches of water.
Remove jar from pan pour into the soap molds.
I made my first batch of lotion bars without beeswax a few weeks ago and have been enjoying using them ever since.
However for salves ointments and moisturizers you would be fine to leave out the beeswax.
Place all the ingredients in a canning jar.
I used a combination of peppermint essential oil and vanilla oleoresin and it came out smelling like peppermint bark.
The main reason the bar does not melt is the inclusion of the beeswax which has a much higher melting temperature as well as the use of harder oils such as cocoa butter.
40g 1 41oz cocoa butter a few drops vitamin e mt 50 usa canada optional 1 small flat 60g 2oz tin for storage 1 measuring cup that can sit inside the tin for your mould weigh the cocoa butter into a small saucepan and melt it over medium heat.
For example 3 ounces of cocoa butter 6 ounces of shea butter and 3 ounces of jojoba or another liquid oil.
Put the pan over the stove and heat on medium until all the ingredients melt.
1 2 cup butter i used shea butter and mango butter 1 2 cup unrefined coconut oil.