The Body Shop Shea Body Butter 200 ml

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Your turn! Mix and match the oil types, and try some herbal infused oils (such as plantain, or rose, or dandelion.) Try different essential oils for scent and skin benefits! Hon KL, et al. (2015). Patient acceptability,efficacy, and skin biophysiology of a cream and cleanser containing lipidcomplex with shea butter extract versus a ceramide product for eczema. DOI: You can try adding a tiny amount (1/4 to 1/2 tsp) rose clay or purple Brazilian clay to tint the product, just remember that clays can be super drying for the most sensitive/dry skin types. For a softer product in cold weather or cold houses, try increasing the amount of oil by 1/4 ounce (7 grams) and adjust upwards from there. In hot climates, you may need to decrease the oil amount to keep it from being too soft.

Lightly tinted body butter: Try adding 1/4 to 1/2 tsp rose clay or purple Brazilian clay. Add the smaller amount first, mix well, then decide if you need a little more. (Keep in mind that clay may be too drying for ultra-dry skin types.) I personally love using lavender and rose essential oils in this recipe. I just love the smell. However, using raw shea butter (which you should) brings in its own smell and these raw shea butter lotion recipes can work better with stronger smelling essential oils that can overpower the shea butter smell more easily. As I mentioned above, you do not need to add a preservative to body butter! Preservatives fight bacteria and mold, which shouldn’t be a problem as long as water isn’t introduced. Antioxidants

Freshly whipped shea butter, safflower oil and arrowroot powder, ready for essential oils How To Make A Homemade Shea Butter Lotion Recipe Less Greasy Mango butter absorbs into your skin slightly faster than shea butter, so it’s a good choice if you’re trying to make a lighter feeling body butter. Mango butter is also especially nice for dry or damaged skin.

Shea butter is a popular ingredient in skincare and beauty products thanks to being very beneficial for the skin. I love to use shea butter to make lotion. Draelos ZD. (2015). A pilot study investigatingthe efficacy of botanical anti-inflammatory agents in an OTC eczema therapy[Abstract]. DOI: You can almost always improve a body butter by including about 25% of the oils as fractionated coconut oil. (Example: The recipe needs 4 ounces of oils total, then 1 ounce of that would be fractionated coconut oil.) When it comes to making body butter than is lighter and less greasy, there are two main things I recommend.

If a less oily-feeling body butter is important to you, you just want to combine these heavy oils with something ultra non-greasy, such as fractionated coconut oil (the kind that’s still liquid when cold) or grapeseed oil, or one of the other lighter oils listed below. Heavy oils include: Once you confirm your shea butter is soft and pliable, cut it into small pieces and place into a bowl, mash it up with a fork or similar instrument.

The best way to lighten up a body butter or waterless cream is to use the lightest, most non-greasy oils possible. You can use your fingers to scoop a teaspoon or so of shea butter from your jar, and then rub it onto your skin until it’s completely absorbed.Since body butter doesn’t contain water-based ingredients, the shelf life is as long as the oils and butters in the recipe. Body butter won’t mold or get spoiled, but the oils in it can eventually go rancid. You’ll know that your body butter is expired if it starts smelling like old oil. The Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment's main ingredient may be avocado oil, but that's not the only moisturizing ingredient that your undereyes will be treated to. It also contains shea butter to soften and prevent skin dehydration while beta-carotene acts as a brightening antioxidant.

I recommend you stay away from heavier richer oils. This includes coconut oil, olive oil and palm oil. While you can switch out safflower oil in my recipe below to make a homemade lotion with coconut oil and shea butter, I do not recommend this. Of course, everyone’s preferences are different, but it will make for greasier body butter. While some of these things may seem like they would be great, adding them may cause mold or rot to occur. In general, anything with a water base should be avoided. If you add water-based items to this butter, it becomes a cream or lotion. You’ll need an emulsifier and probably a preservative. It’s best to keep these things out of your butter.As you may notice in most recipes you can use about 60% butter to 40% oil and you come out with a nice balanced body butter. There are different methods to make the final product come out the way you want it, as described above. You can then have fun with the essential oils you like. You can add colors you want using mica and put your final product in fun containers to make it unique and just the way you like it. Every so often, you’ll see a recipe described as a body butter, but it will have a water based ingredient in it (water, hydrosol, aloe, herbal tea.) While those can be lovely to use, I consider them more of a cream, since once you add these water based things, you’ll need to start thinking about preservatives. The benefits of shea butter go beyond temporary moisture replenishment, according to board-certified dermatologist Kim Nichols, MD, who's based in Connecticut. "Shea butter is rich in essential fatty acids, making it an excellent emollient for the skin, helping to simultaneously hydrate and protect," she says. In addition, Dr. Nichols notes that shea butter is also a great source of vitamins A (also known as retinol) and E, two antioxidants that soothe and soften irritated, dry, and itchy skin. "This combination of powerhouse ingredients makes shea butter an ideal ingredient to help soothe symptoms of common skin-care conditions such as eczema, rosacea, and psoriasis, to name a few," she says. Regular coconut oil (also called 76 degree coconut oil) will turn solid when chilled under 76 degrees F. It’s best used in soapmaking and cooking, though some like it in their skin care too. It soaks into your skin slowly, and tends to make body butter feel greasy or oily. I don’t recommend using regular coconut oil in this recipe. It becomes liquid over 76 degrees F, but hard at cooler temperatures, making it unreliable for consistency. Also, regular coconut oil is heavy on your skin, and will make your body butter feel more greasy.