Be kind to your hard-working skin! This homemade body butter recipe will leave your skin moisturized and soft, thanks to rich cocoa butter and coconut oil. We love its whipped consistency that goes on smoothly and feels light to the touch.
Whipped Body Butter
Ingredients
- 1 cup organic coconut oil
- 1 cup organic solid cocoa butter (do not use lotion)
- 15 drops of your favorite topical/aromatic essential oil (we love Cedarwood, Lavender, and Frankincense essential oils)
Directions
- Warm a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, then add coconut oil and cocoa butter. Melt until completely liquefied, about 4–5 minutes.
- Pour into a glass mixing bowl and place in refrigerator for 30–45 minutes to cool and just set but not harden.
- Stir in essential oils.
- Using an electric hand mixer, whip until firm peaks form, about 10 minutes.
- Gently transfer to a seal-able jar or container. Store at room temperature to avoid melting or solidifying.
- Massage into dry skin!
I like to use mango butter in place of the cocoa butter for a less nutty base scent. Then my favorite EOs to add to support skin are geranium, frankincense, patchouli and cedarwood!
I have always loved lavender and frankincense but the last time I made I used lavender and joy. It was heavenly!!
Neroli for sure!!!! Haven’t tried it with the coconut oil and cocoa butter yet, but have made some using Neroli and Argan Oil. Neroli is my absolute favorite.
Sacred Mountain, Stress Away, or Ylang Ylang!:)! I would even consider trying Abundance (I absolutely love that smell:))! Oh man, the list goes on!!!
I made a wonderful body butter this evening using Young Living’s Frankincense, Lavender and Northern Lights Black Spruce. What a wonderfully relaxing aroma.
I would make this whipped body butter using Peace and Calming, the original formula. I love it!!! Now it’s coming back into stock, I cannot wait to get more.
I would use Mastrante and Ylang Ylang. I think that combo would smell great as well as some of the citrus oils like orange and lime.
I would try Tea tree oil because it’s good for dry skin.
I use peppermint and eucalyptus as well as adding some support for muscles!
I would definitely try orange a peppermint. And I love the trio of Joy, orange, and citrus fresh!! Both would energizing and happy blends! ❤
I’ve heard patchouli is amazing for the skin! Might swap with cedarwood!
I’m going to try this for my husband. I rub lotion into his back every day, sometimes more than once. I might try cedar wood, lemon, and frank in the body butter.
Peppermint for sure! It goes great with the natural “chocolaty” smell of the cocoa butter!
I’m going to use peppermint and lavender! Thanks for sharing! :)
I made some the other day with orange and lavender!!! Smells amazing!!
Ylang Ylang and Lemongrass
I love everything Frankincense and Royal Hawian Sandlewood hmmmm
I would try cedarwood, sandalwood, ylang ylang, and just 10 Drops of Rose. I cannot wait to try this!! And I hope this inspires others to experiment with this Amazing Body Butter Recipe.
I think a few drops of Rose oil would be heavenly!
I think I will try a couple different batches. My daughter loves lavender and I would like to try peace and calm I’ll try to let you know how I like them. Thanks for the recipe and usage knowledge.
This is lovely. I am passionate about all things EO and love DIY.
I would try Frank, citrus Fresh and Geranium.
Thank you for sharing look forward to trying this out.
I made this but also added shea butter and then peppermint. It’s a great winter smell!
I would use Frank, Cedarwood and a little Stressaway!!!
Those are my absolute Favorites!
Dena
I would use Geranium, I put in my lotion bars too!
Patchouli is one of my favorites to add. I also like to use carrot seed.
Ylang ylang would smell nice!
My daughter and I made Sugar scrubs for gifts this year at Christmas. We made a Honey Orange Sugar scrubs with organic raw sugar, organic olive oil, raw natural honey and YL Orange Essential oil.. we also did a Lavender scrub with all organic natural ingredients to include YL EO, and a Eucalyptus Foot scrub.. oh I almost forgot cranberry & YL Orange EO..yummy we printed labels for the jars listing the ingredients too.. everyone loved their gifts ❤
I would enjoy adding Rose oil for a classic scent.
Lemon is amazing in body butter & invigorating!
Peace and calming! This way it’s a win for kids and adults 🙌🏻.
I think I will try joy and orange! That sounds great!
I use frankincense, lavender, and melaleuca! Perfect combo.
I also like shea butter in place of the cocoa butter
Feels great
Since winter is showing us in PA just how cold it can get I’d like to try lemon, lime & tangerine for a nice refreshing spring scent to look forward to what’s ahead.
Elemi and lavender will be delightful in this soothing lotion!
I love Peppermint in my Body Butter. Very uplifting and my dog loves it also!
These will be great one of kind gifts!
I love lavender an wil use my favorites lemon and citrus!!!
Frankincense, Lavender, and Sensation
Lavender is my top choice. I might try Eucalyptus. For summer, grapefruit would be nice.
I made this using frankincense and mryyh. It’s so moisturizing and calming. I love it.
I’ll try melrose and lavender.
My favorite oils to add to body creams are Joy with some orange. I’ve also added just a few drops of Abundance before just for that little extra spicy scent and I love how it smells and what it does for me.
Black pepper, rosemary, and peppermint
I will use peppermint and orange for an uplifting fragrance. I love making creams to share with friends and people who know very little about the power our oils.
I just received this email so of course I am too late to enter the contest. I would like to say that I appreciate the recipes for using my EOs. I love them but have a hard time learning how best to use them. Several friends are saying the same thing. Please send more recipes! Happy New Year!
Can’t wait to try. I’ve always had dry skin
I’ll definitely try a couple of different ones. Lavender and lemongrass would be on my list.
I used shea butter I will have to try Cocoa butter.
I was a fan of lavender now it is frankincense. I love to make sugar scrubs and soaps with frankincense.
Did you like this recipe with the Shea Butter? I have Shea on hand and would like to try it if it worked will for you.