Dad here looking for a body butter recipe!

[Beach head]

Hi ladies I'm looking for a body butter recipe.

 

[Deda]

I have a great recipe, but it took me a couple years, several hundred dollars and many tries to get it just right.

What have you tried so far?

 

[Beach head]

Hi Deda,

I haven’t tried any yet. I would love to find something like the Tree Hut Brazilian Nut Body Butter!
http://www.treehutshea.com/TH_7ozBrazil ... Butter.php


Here's what I'm thinking about trying. Let me know what you think.

Ingredients:
2 ozs cocoa butter (weighed)
2 ozs natural shea butter
(weighed)
2 ozs mango butter (weighed)
1 teaspoon wheat germ oil
3 teaspoons apricot kernel oil
1 teaspoon beeswax pearls
Mango fragrance oil (or any
fragrance oil)
1/4 teaspoon Vit E. (optional, as
a preservative)

 

[Deda]

how did it feel when you tested it?

 

[Deda]

I don't care much for beeswax in a body butter.

If I make something where I'm adding a lot of liquid oil or aloe juice cetearyl alcohol works, so does stearic acid.

With the recipe you posted I don't see the need for any thickener. But that's just my opinion. Everyone has a little different idea of how a body butter should feel.

 

[Beach head]

I haven’t made any yet. I was going to try next week after I get back from Panama Florida! What can you tell from the ingredients. I got the recipe from pvsoap.com

 

[Deda]

I couldn't begin to give an opinion having never used Mango Butter (highly allergic to mangos, and not taking a chance).

Is it a soft squishy butter like shea, or is it hard and brittle like cocoa?

 

[Beach head]

Im pretty sure it’s hard like cocoa. I will be ordering all of the supplies sometime next week and I can let you know then. What would it take to get your recipe? Maybe I could talk you into a trade for some of my soaps or soy candles

 

[Deda]

$10,000. I'll PM you with my Paypal address.

 

[Beach head]

lol It was worth a try.....

 

[Deda]

 

[LJA]

Im pretty sure it’s hard like cocoa. I will be ordering all of the supplies sometime next week and I can let you know then. What would it take to get your recipe? Maybe I could talk you into a trade for some of my soaps or soy candles

mango is more along the lines of shea in consistancy, I'd say...it's squishable..

 

[Beach head]

Thanks LJA!!!!!

 

[Tabitha]

That recipe looks too firm to me. Everyone is diff. Body butters range anywhere from solid to a soft lotion texture. That looks like iti would be fairly solid to me.

I think I would start w/ 3 parts soft butter & 1 part oil, or maybe 2 parts soft butters & 1 part oil. You can see if it is too soft or too hard for your taste & adjust from there.

I would stay away from the bees wax unless you are making a stick lip balm, solid deodorant or something else you want to be solid.

 

[SimplyE]

$10,000. I'll PM you with my Paypal address.

ROFLMAO!!!

 

[carebear]

Hi Deda,

I haven’t tried any yet. I would love to find something like the Tree Hut Brazilian Nut Body Butter!
http://www.treehutshea.com/TH_7ozBrazil ... Butter.php


Here's what I'm thinking about trying. Let me know what you think.

Ingredients:
2 ozs cocoa butter (weighed)
2 ozs natural shea butter
(weighed)
2 ozs mango butter (weighed)
1 teaspoon wheat germ oil
3 teaspoons apricot kernel oil
1 teaspoon beeswax pearls
Mango fragrance oil (or any
fragrance oil)
1/4 teaspoon Vit E. (optional, as
a preservative)

How about YOU try it, tell us what you think, and we could maybe help you troubleshoot or modify to suit your needs.

You'll likely get more input that way.

oh but here are a couple of freebies

1 - never work in mixed units and try very very hard not to work in volume, especially for things like beeswax which may have different "pearl" sizes depending on from where you got it! so first convert everything to weight which you can do by simply weighing the recommended measurement and then use those weights to base your changes on)

2 - Vitamin E isn't a preservative, it's an antioxidant (which in a way is a preservative, but not in the lingo spoken in B&B stuff where a preservative is something that protects against the growth of mold and bacteria). An antioxidant can be a good idea in stuff like this.

 

[Vinca Leaf]

LOL!

Y'all are so funny.

 

[Beach head]

Thanks for the information Vinca. I have couple of recipes I'm going to try. I'll let you know how they turn out!

 

[MikeInPdx]

$10,000. I'll PM you with my Paypal address.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

ROFLMAO!

 

[krissy]

i LOVE that brazilian nut butter! i even ordered brazilian nut oil because of it. i used it in some bath melts and in 1 soap but wasn't really impressed