![]() It’s also lovely on the skin! If I have dry, irritated skin, you’ll find me slathering myself in shea butter. I’ve selected shea butter for this formulation because it’s very popular and easy to get. The shea butter in this formulation is the star ingredient-there’s more shea butter in this formulation than anything else. If you’re looking for something a bit fancier, you can find all my body butter formulations here! This is a very simple body butter formulation, and that’s the point. Make sure you watch the video for a bit of a show-and-tell featuring different consisitencies! Once you have that basic soft butter and oil blend down, you can incorporate other ingredients to customize the formulation (depending on what you’re incorporating, this may require adjusting the oil and butter ratios). ![]() If it’s too soft, it’ll melt readily and won’t remain light and airy. If it’s too firm, the butter will seize after whipping and won’t be soft and scoopy. Basically, it’s a soft butter that has been further softened with just enough liquid oil that it can be whipped up, and will stay soft and whippy throughout its life. We’ll start with a brief overview of what a whipped body butter is. Want to watch this project instead of reading it? In the post, I’ll be going over the essential elements of this body butter and explaining why we use each ingredient, while the video focusses more on the making technique. If you’ve never made a whipped body butter before, or you just want to understand how they work a bit better, this post is a brilliant place to start. ![]() It’s not greasy, you don’t need to heat anything up, and half of the ingredients are easily substituted. Today’s project is another back-to-basics post-we’re making an all-natural Super Simple Whipped Shea Butter! You’ll need just four basic ingredients to create this decadent body butter. ![]()
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