Cocoa Butter is naturally rich in Vitamin E as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamin E helps to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin and also provides the skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of aging. This recipe contains no beeswax. It is a rich body butter perfect for dry skin and for preventing stretch marks.
Oil Phase – 10 tablespoons –91%
4 tablespoons organic raw cocoa butter
6 tablespoons organic Camellia seed oil or safflower oil
Water Phase – 1 tablespoon – 9 %
1 tablespoon of organic pure aloe vera juice
¼ teaspoon of raw natural silk protein powder (Optional)
Essential oil (optional): 10 drops of organic sweet orange essential oil (photosensitive – do not apply before going under the sun!)
Directions:
Add the cocoa butter and camellia seed oil to your double boiler on low heat until they are melted.
Once melted, take it off the heat, add the tablespoon of aloe vera and the silk protein (optional) and start whipping with an electric mixer for two minutes.
Put the bowl into the freezer for 13 minutes. (You may need to adjust the time in the freezer depending on how cold your freezer is. If the butter is too hard to be mixed, just leave it a few minutes at room temperature.)
Take the bowl out the freezer and start whipping with the electric mixer, you will see that it turns white and fluffy right away, continue whipping for 5 minutes. Add the essential oils and whip again for 1 or 2 minutes. Poor in a glass jar.
Yield: about 8 oz (replace by teaspoons if you want to have 4 oz)
Use within 2 months.
I’m so excited to make this recipe! However, I don’t have the organic raw cocoa butter, but I do have the Mountain Rose Herbs unrefined ceritfied oraganic & fair trade coca butter. Will that work for this recipe?
Hi Kim, yes that would work just fine; does it smell like chocolate?
I made the Cocoa Whipped Body Butter and it came out perfect. I love it!
thank you Kim! really happy you like the recipe
do you need an emulsifier or does the aloe vera bond well with the cocoa butter? (I haven’t tried it yet, but I definitely plan on it!)
no emulsifier needed and thats the beauty of it!