How to Make Body Butter – Great for Beginners
I am regularly asked about formulations for beginners and formulations for experienced skin care body butter makers. Today I want to share a simple agave bloom beginner body butter DIY. I realized most of my formulations use various body butters and I wanted to create a simple starting point to address those questions. When formulating body butters, it is good to start with a generally recognized ratio and then experiment. Two key ratios that I use as a starting point when I am formulating are the 70:30 or 60:40 butter-to-liquid oil ratio. When using a relatively soft butter, like shea butter, I like to start with 70% shea butter and 30% liquid oil. My favorite liquid oils to experiment with are sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, and sunflower oil.
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For harder butters such as mango butter, kokum butter, and cocoa butter, I like to start the formulations with 60% butter and 40% liquid oil. There are also so many variables to consider, for example, the seasonal temperatures. For winter, I prefer a softer body butter. With this in mind, I start with a 60:40 ratio for my formulations. For the hot summer months, I prefer the body butter to not melt as easily and be able to take them to travels and camping. In this case, I use the 70:30 and mostly hard butters such as kokum butter and cocoa butter.
I love experimenting and creating new variations. I recommend you to experiment as well and find what you like. There are so many variations that you can create with only a few ingredients. Body butters are great to use any time of the year. I love that I know exactly what goes into it and that they are one hundred percent natural. This body butter uses a fragrance oil from one of my favorite soap-making and skin care suppliers, but you can make it with essential oils or omit the fragrance completely.
Making body butter is not very complicated but it does require some patience. It takes several minutes to whip the butter to the right consistency. Follow the steps below and you will have a fantastic skin-loving agave bloom body butter in no time.
Step by Step Making Agave Bloom Beginner Body Butter
Ingredients and materials:
- 0.7 oz shea butter
- 0.3 oz jojoba oil or sweet almond oil
- 0.5 ml using a dropper of Agave Bloom fragrance oil (from Brambleberry)
- Pink color mica
- plastic bail jars
Weigh out the shea butter and place it in a heat-safe container.
Melt the shea butter using the microwave in 30-second intervals until only a few pieces are left. Use a spatula to swirl the remaining pieces of the butter until it fully melted. I like this method because that way I can try to control the temperature a bit and try to avoid overheating the wonderful moisturizing shea butter. For better temperature control use the double boiler method for melting the butter.
Add the jojoba oil or sweet almond oil and mix well using a spatula
Mix together using the blender for one to two minutes.
Add the Agave Bloom fragrance and the pink mica and whip for 7 to 10 minutes.
Place the agave bloom beginner body butter in a cling wrap then insert it into a piping bag.
Transfer the body butter into the jars.
Piping the body butter is completely optional but I love doing it. I think it looks beautiful. It is perfect if you are using this body butter as a gift and makes it really attractive if you are planning to sell it.
Keep the luxurious agave bloom body butter in an airtight container and use it as often as needed.
This Agave Bloom body butter feels wonderful on the skin. I like that it does not feel greasy at all and it is a very simple recipe for body butter that beginners will love.
However, if you like you can also add arrowroot powder, but I really think it does not need it at all.
With body butters, a little goes a long way but don’t hesitate to splurge if you like!
If you want to continue to get inspired on body butters take a look at this Whipped Coffee Body Butter as well as my Turkish Mocha Triple Butter, Body Butter with coffee butter. I hope you try them.
I have a simpler yet very rich and super skin-loving body butter with mango butter that you will also love. Try the Mango and Avocado Body Butter, it’s just wonderful. Then this Kokum Butter Body Butter is just another great recipe to try. A full list of body butters can also be found in the Lotion and Body Butters category.
If you try and make this body butter, I would love to hear how it turned out!
How long does the body butter and whipped soap last please
Kate
Hello, the body butters shelf life is based on the shelf life of the ingredients. It can be six months to a year based on the ingredients you used. For example, if the shelf life of the oil is one year and the shelf life of the shea butter is two years, I would use a shelf life of one year. This of course is based on making sure no water or water based products are added. I recommend you use the same approach with the whipped soap as well. If the whipped soap is exposed to water I recommend using a preservative.
Hello Good evening Ms. Jasmine I want to make a body butter for the first time for myself but I want to use Kokum butter, mango butter and jojoba oil. I want a harder body butter since it’s going to be summer soon and it’s really hot where I’m at. For the 70/30 ratio, I divide 70 by 2 to be 35% for each since I have two butters right? That i want to use. For the 30% would be jojoba oil right? So for example I want to make an 8 oz jar body butter would it be 70% of 8 oz which is 5.6 Oz so it will be 2.8 Oz of kokum butter and 2.8 oz of mango butter. For 30% it will be 2.4 oz of jojoba oil. And for the fragrance if I would like to add I read it’s either 1% or 2% right so let’s say if I want to add an essential oil or a fragrance 1% of 8 oz is 0.08 Oz of an essential oil can be added. If I want to add arrowroot powder how do I calculate how much to add? Please let me know if my calculations are right if I’m even doing it right I’m just going based on what I am reading I’m not sure if I’m correct I have no clue if I am correct I am barely learning. Thank you so much for your guidance and hope to hear from you soon. I wish you the best.
Hello Mina, you are correct in the approach. Since you plan to use the 70/30 ratio and two hard butters, for two hard butters it will be 35% each. The 30% would be the soft/liquid oil, which is the jojoba oil. Your calculations are correct for an 8 oz batch of body butter. For the arrowroot powder, I usually start with one to 1.5 teaspoon of arrowroot powder but this is really based on my preference. It is used to cut down the greasiness. Depending on how it feels for you, you may want to increase the amount of arrowroot powder for your liking. I am so glad you are experimenting and making your body butters. I am sure you will have so much fun. All the best to you too.