Hey makers it's Charlotte and today I'm going to
teach you how to make your own all natural body butter.
Body butters are anhydrous formulations, this means they contain no water. When creating a body butter
you'll need to select a variety of butters and oils to create your formulation. Typically when
you're structuring a body butter formula your butters are going to make up about 65
to 75 percent of your formula. Your oils on the other hand will make up about 20 to 25 percent
of your formula. You can customize your body butter using a variety of different butters
and oils. Today I'm going to be using a few classics, I'm going to utilize our
shea butter and mango butter and for my oil I'm going to use a sweet almond oil.
I'll walk you through the variety of benefits of these oils as well as each step in how to create
your very own body butter, but first let's get our safety gear on. Whenever you're creating body care
products it's very important that your workspace is as clean and bacteria free as possible.
Therefore when you're getting started formulating be sure to sanitize all of your
tools, your pitcher, your spatula, any funnels or other equipment that you'll be utilizing
in a five percent bleach solution diluted with water. You'll also want to wear gloves
and goggles to avoid any product getting on your skin or splashing into your eyes. Let's get started.
Whenever you're formulating a product it's a great idea to take notes some projects will turn
out great, others may be a flop, in the end you'll want to take notes to remember what worked and
what didn't work and to keep track of what your final formula will be. The first ingredient we're
going to use today is shea butter, shea butter will make up 34% of the formula that we're using today.
Shea butter is extracted from shea tree nuts and they are good for so many reasons shea butter is
a powerful anti-inflammatory, has antioxidant properties and it has fantastic anti-aging
properties as well it's a great treatment option for those with dry skin or eczema. So let's get our
scale turned on and start measuring out our shea butter, so I'm going to be making a 200 ml or 6.76
ounce body butter today and my shea butter at 34% of my formula will be 2.3 ounces.
Perfect, next I'm going to use my stick blender to whip up the shea butter, I'll do this
step first and then we'll start adding additional butters and oils.
You'll want to continually use your spatula to take the product and put it into your pitcher.
Okay once your shea butter has reached a sort of cool whipped consistency
um normally that takes about one to two minutes it's time to start adding in additional butters.
The next butter that I'm going to add is going to be our mango butter
mango butter is a bit of a softer butter and I love mango butter because it won't clog your
pores so it's a great choice for congested or acne prone skin. I'm gonna weigh out another 2.3 ounces,
okay perfect. Now I'm going to continue to whip these products together with the stick blender.
Okay lastly I'm going to add my sweet almond oil in this formulation. The almond
oil is going to be 1.6 ounces which will make up 24% of my total formula.
Lastly I'm going to use my stick blender to incorporate the sweet almond oil into my butters.
Sweet almond oil is a great oil for many reasons, but primarily it's an excellent moisturizer and it
may help protect the skin from sun damage. I'll use the stick blender until- to mix these until
they're fully incorporated together. Lastly I have a few final ingredients to include. I'm going to
include half an ounce of arrowroot powder and I'm including arrowroot powder because it does a good
job at helping the formula to feel moisturizing but not greasy or oily on your skin. The arrowroot
powder is optional but I think you'll find that it offers some great benefits when you do include it
in your body butter and lotion recipes. So just a half an ounce of that that's going to be seven
percent of my formula and now the final things to add are my fragrance and my preservative. So the
preservative that I'm going to be using today is called geogard, this is an eco cert preservative
and it's great because it works for a variety of different ph and it's also stable in both
room temperature and heated formulations. So for the geogard I'm just using 1ml of this today
and that's all that's needed and you'll see that. Geogard is a bit of a darker color in oil but it
does not show up because of what a small amount it is in the overall color of your body butter.
And lastly for my fragrance oil I'm going to be using one of my favorites, beautiful for lotions
body butters, even hair care products, this one is called island gardenia and spiced ylang. So
I'm going to be using 2ml of this which is just going to make up one percent of my formula today.
Okay perfect, now I'm going to use the stick blender one final time to go ahead and mix all of
these ingredients together and then my body butter will be complete. Okay and my product is complete,
you'll see I have this beautiful consistency body butter here, it's a creamy white color and I'm just
going to simply scoop it into my black uv jar here. This jar has a uv protectant on the glass which
is great because it helps protect all of those awesome benefits to my oils and butters as well
as if you're adding any extracts or essential oils that also have skin benefits. Using a uv glass will
help protect them from any damage by light and it can also help extend the life and potency of your
body care products. And there you have it we've created this gorgeous creamy body butter today
and again just remember when you're structuring your formula you want to keep that oil to butter
ratio consistent with the butters at about 65 to 75 percent and the oils between 20 to 25 percent.
Lastly the arrowroot powder is optional but it will help keep a more lightweight and non-greasy
feel to your formulation and just use your favorite fragrance oil and any enhancers that
you'd like and your body butter is complete. Thank you guys so much for making with me today be sure
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