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Aromatherapy Body Butter
When you need major moisture Aromatherapy Body Butter will comes to the rescue
What is the difference between body butter and body lotion
Before I start, I want to tell you the difference between body lotion and body butter and what is better for your skin.
Body butter is usually made with a combination of carrier oils or liquid fats with butter like cocoa, shea, mango, or kukui butter. And sometimes people will add wax too. It does not contain water. Finished product will be thicker and harder than a lotion and often takes longer time for skin to absorb.
While aromatherapy body lotion is more lighter than body butter. It contains water or hydrosol, oils, wax and also emulsifier like borax. It can be poured out easily and more easily absorbed by our skin.
Usually we use body butter for dry skin especially in winter time and body lotion is more appealing in hot weather and for skin that isn't that dry.
The aromatherapy body butter will be more expensive than a lotion but it should be worth because we will apply only small amount for the whole body.
Basic aromatherapy body butter recipes
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup cocoa butter - cocoa butter is good for cracked or dehydrated skin
Soften the coconut oil and cocoa butter in the double boiler medium heat, remove from the heat and add essential oils, stir to blend. Put it in a jar and store in cold dry place.
Cocoa butter - Pale, yellow, strong odor of "chocolate" scent. It will overpower the scents of most essential oils but you can use it in small portion as a thickener in lotion or creams. When combine with neroli essential oils, the fragrance is reminiscent of an exotic, delectable dessert.
Other than cocoa butter, you can use shea, mango, or kukui butter. but they vary in texture, hardness and absorbency. Check out other type that is available
Coconut oil is available at health store, but if you don't like the scents you can replace coconut oil with:
Avocado Oil, is usually for mature and dry skin
Safflower Oil, is good purpose for all solution
Grapeseed oil, is less greasy and better for younger skin.
Please avoid mineral oil cause it is a refined petroleum products and provides no nutrient to the skin.
How to apply aromatherapy body butter
The best way to apply body butter after a hot bath. The hot bath will open your skin pores so that it is ready to receive any kind of treatment.
Apply on small amount of aromatherapy body butter. Because it is thicker so small amount can expand much further as it melts.
Do a massage until the butter absorb onto your skin and has completely disappeared. It will takes time. but believe me it worth!.
Your skin will left with the ultimate shine and just a tiny bit oily. Unlike body lotion, the scent of body butter will stay all night.
And when you touch your skin, you will feel there will a thin layer on your skin, which will leave you oily but not stick. But after a while it will disappeared and leave your skin shine and soft. Now that what I called pampering
Shop online: Which one have the best body butter?
Try to go simple? instead of making your own body butter why don't you just buy it. There are many leading brand outside for you to chose. But how can you decide which one is better?
There 2 things that people notice when buying body butter; The scent and their absorbency.
The scent -- As the body butter will be stay all night. so this is very important. Try to pick your favorite scent. As you know I like fruity scent more than floral. so my best choice would be Body Shop Pink Grapefruit Body Butter.
Other than the scent, Body shop butter are great on my skin. I never fell too oily on my skin and spread so well. And Body shop uses many natural ingredients such as shea butter, cocoa butter, and grapeseed oil.
My Review 5 out of 5.
The Body Shop Pink Grapefruit Body Butter Best for normal skin. Keep your skin super-smooth and soft with a rich, intensive cream that provides zesty, fruit-scented moisturizer. Pink grapefruit seed oil provides essential fatty acids to repair skin's moisture barrier, so it feels smooth and supple. Shea butter will moisturizes and softens skin while cocoa butter is an excellent moisturizer that melts at body temperature and absorbs quickly.
The Body Shop Pink Grapefruit Body Butter
