How Do You Make Homemade Body Butter?
Homemade body butter is an environmentally friendly way to nourish your skin, especially problem areas such elbows, feet and knees. Body butter is particularly effective during the winter season when dry skin can become a real discomfort. With all natural ingredients, you can make body butter right in your own kitchen. Shea butter, valued for centuries because of its moisturizing properties, becomes a powerful nutritive for dry skin when mixed with sweet almond oil and vitamin E oil. Choose a pure essential oil to add to the body butter and you’ll have a fragrant, homemade product free of the toxins and chemicals present in commercial products. Melt the shea butter in a double boiler. Using a microwave is also acceptable but be very careful not to overheat the butter. Shea butter will granulate when overheated or brought to a boil. Add the sweet almond oil and the vitamin E oil. Stir until well blended. Remove the mixture from the heat and transfer to a metal bowl. Add the essential oi
