This Lavender Body Butter not only smells amazing, but is great for soothing and moisturising your skin.

Lavender Body Butter

With a light and fluffy texture, this lavender body butter is perfect for those with dry skin, leaving it feeling soft and hydrated. This recipe will make 8 oz of creamy body butter.

Body Butter Basics

Body butters are thick, rich skin care products that are used to help moisturise the body. As there is no water in this product, this should last for up to six months, when stored properly. The joy with this body butter recipe is that you can customise to your own liking by changing a few of the ingredients.

The whole process is fairly straightforward. Combine a butter like shea, cocoa or mango with a carrier oil and melt. An essential oil can be added for extra benefits and arrowroot powder can be added to help reduce the greasiness of the butter.

Body Butter Ingredients

The first ingredient used is a butter. For this recipe, I have used a mixture of shea and cocoa butter as they work great together. Cocoa butter is harder than shea butter, which is why I don’t recommend using 100% cocoa butter, as it will make the end product quite solid, like a rock.

Shea butter is great for your skin and also can help with reducing inflammation, while cocoa butter can help reduce the appearance of stretch marks and scars. Mango butter, which could also be used, is great for helping soothe eczema, sunburn, rashes and insect bites.

Oil is the next ingredient in making body butter. For this recipe, I used coconut oil and sweet almond oil. Jojoba oil and grapeseed oil could also be used. Coconut oil is known as a slow absorbing oil, it may take a little longer for it to be absorbed into the body. Even so, it is a very good oil for dry skin.Fast absorbing oils include apricot kernel oil, grapeseed oil and rosehip oil.

Finally, an essential oil can be added once the mixture is melted. Lavender is what I used in this one, but others such as geranium, Frankincense (Carteri), peppermint, myrrh, sweet orange, or rose oil can also be used.

Some citrus essential oils, such as lemon, and lime are considered photosensitive, meaning increased danger when skin that has had essential oils applied to it is exposed to the sun, but sweet orange essential oil is not considered one of these.

Body Butter too Greasy?

If you do find the body butter to be a little too greasy for you, try adding a small amount of arrowroot powder to the mixture before adding the essential oil. Arrowroot powder offers a host of skin and body benefits including helping improve blood circulation and healing blemishes.

Body Butter too Runny?

If you find that your body butter is too runny, you can try reducing the amount of carrier oil used or increasing the amount of butter you used. Depending on your location, the heat and humidity of where you live will affect this as well. You could also add a small amount of beeswax to help with keeping the consistency of your body butter to help keep it from melting too much.

Body Butter too Hard?

If you find that your body butter is too hard, you can melt it down again and add a little more carrier oil. Also, make sure not to over mix your ingredients as this may affect the consistency of the final product.

Body Butter on your Face?

While you may want to use your body butter on your face, depending on the ingredients you used, this may not be a good choice. Some oils, such as coconut oil can clog your pores which may lead to breakouts. Check out this list of carrier oils when choosing an oil to use.

Make Creamy Lavender Body Butter

To make an 8 oz jar of this butter, you will need:

¼ cup shea butter
¼ cup cocoa butter
¼ cup coconut oil
¼ cup sweet almond oil
17 drops lavender essential oil
1 ½ tsp arrowroot powder, optional

To make this body butter, first chop the cocoa butter into small pieces.

Then add it to a large bowl or stand mixer with the shea butter.

If you are using a stand mixer, use the wire whip attachment. Whip the butters on high for one minute, then decrease the speed to low and continue whipping for four minutes.

Add the coconut oil and sweet almond oil. If adding the arrowroot powder, add it now. Whip again on high for one minute, followed by four minutes on low.

Pour the mixture into a glass bowl and place in the fridge to chill for one hour.

Then, return the mixture to a large bowl or stand mixer and add the essential oil.

Whip on low for one minute, then on high for five minutes until it is light and fluffy.

Store in an airtight jar. If located in a warmer climate, you may find that you need to store in the refrigerator. This body butter should last for up to six months.

To Use: After bathing, apply a small amount of the body butter to your fingertips, and then gently massage the butter on your skin. Apply as needed.

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