acai butter lotion bars

[txsoaper]

I purchased some acai butter recently from Majestic Mountain Sage and want to use it for lotion bars. It has a beautiful purple-ish color. I think some beeswax probably needs added to it but need some help figuring how much. Here is the information on the acai butter:

Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter and Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Butter and Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil and Euterpe Oleracea (Acai) Fruit

Thanks so much.

 

[Guest]

Are you wanting to add beeswax as a hardener?

 

[txsoaper]

Yes, I think it will melt too easily without any........right?

 

[Guest]

It depends on what you are making with it. If you are making solid lotion bars you could use cocoa butter instead of beeswax but I am not sure what you are trying to do.

 

[txsoaper]

I am wanting to make solid lotion bars. The cocoa butter sounds nice and it would also add to the skin benefits....any suggestions on how much to use? I have some of that on hand and think I might like that better than beeswax.

 

[Guest]

It depens on several factors and you will have to play with the recipe but if it were me, I would start with equal parts of each and work from there. If they are too hard, reduce the beeswax or eliminate it.

ie. 1 part acai, 1 part, cocoa, 1 part beeswax

There are tons of solid lotion bar recipes online. Just Google it and see which works for you.