You will have seen that C and I have been trying to up our gifting game with homemade gifts this year. I shared my homemade fudge recipe yesterday. Today, I am sharing another gift idea with How To Make Homemade Body Butter.
One of my favourite beauty items I always have is body butter. There is nothing nicer after a nice bath or shower to massage in some body butter. My mum loves body butter as does C. So we thought we would give it a try to make our own.
There are so many recipes for body butter if you google. We chose to do Stacey Solomons recipe.
Table of Contents
Ingredients
110g Shea Butter
110g Coconut Oil
essential oils – we used vanilla and jasmine
How To Make
- Add the Shea Butter and Coconut Oil to a pan and gently melt
- Once melted leave to cool. I cool the pan in cold water (making sure that the water does not go in the pan). Once the pan is cold pop in the fridge to set.
- Once set remove the solid mix to a bowl and beat with an electric whisk. This is where it starts to come together. Keep whisking until you have a thick smooth cream.
- Add your essential oils as required. Some are stronger than others so keep adding until you have the fragrance you are wanting.
- Transfer to jars – these are the jars I used
I got my ingredients from Amazon
The Final Results
We all loved the body butter, but agreed it was quite oily. This was due to the coconut oil, which is great at absorbing into the skin. So we decided this one is better for after a bath or shower to lock in moisture.
We decided to make a second batch that C chose Jasmine and Lavender and they went well together. We decreased the amount of coconut oil to half and it was much creamier. Which is better for anytime during the day
It is all about playing around to get the consistency to your preference.
This is so quick and easy to make and such a lovely gift idea.
What homemade gifts have you made?
what a beautiful idea – Will try when energy levels improve
We loved making our own as we all use body butters daily, I do think you need to play around with measures as the first batch was quite oily but perfect for after a bath or shower to lock in the moisture
I love giving homemade gifts at this time of year. We love gifting onion marmalade!
I love onion marmalade but have never tried making it
I had no idea you could make body butter like this! Thank you for sharing – this makes for a great homemade gift for the holidays.
Honestly it is so easy to make and a lovely gift idea
I love the idea of making homemade body butter and I do love a good body butter as it moisturizes perfectly. I am pinning this post next to see the recipe!
It is so easy to make we are loving our homemade body butters
These are the kind of recipes I can get behind. I love homemade cosmetics. It’s such a money saver.
I love these and love knowing what is going into it as well
I have always wanted to try making body butter . Never got round to trying it but I will most definitely give it a go over the weekend !
It is so easy and transforms from a solid mix to a smooth cream so easily
My daughter makes her own too. She’s asked for some new essential oils for Christmas.
It is so easy to make and a lot of fun with which essential oils you add
Thank you very much for these valuable tips on making homemade body butter. Very helpful.
We loved making these
I never realised that it was so easy to make body butter at home. How wonderful to be able to do this uing your technique and methods
It is so easy, the longest part is waiting for it to cool and go hard and then the fun part is whipping it up into a cream
So few ingredients! lovely. I make items from glass so a few are gifted.
We have really enjoyed making our homemade gifts and it is so much nicer to gift
I never realised it was that easy to make! It makes a lovely gift!
We did not either, and now we are loving trying out our new body butters
Love this!
I’ve recently made my own home made body butter using a very similar recipe.
It’s so lovely isn’t it. Especially when you know all what’s gone in to it.
Great diy gift to make x
One thing I do love about this is it is so simple to make and the ingredients are natural as well
Ooh. I have to try this! I love the idea of knowing exactly what’s in my skincare products.
I hope you enjoy making it, and agree it is all natural and only a few ingredients