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’m actually excited to have seen this post. I’m planning a make and take pamper yourself girls night, and am going to let each pick their own oils to add in! I personally love using Frankincense on my skin. But I want to make a batch with Joy as well!
For my body butter I would use the essential oils of Frankincense, Cypress and Jade Lemon.
Would definitely use frankincense & lavender and add ylang ylang… luv the smell!
I will add frankincense and royal Hawaiian sandalwood (just got it FINALLY!). Can’t wait to try this 😍
I’m going to try stress away & bergamot for a relaxing and uplifting balm I can use after a bath!
I love grapefruit in my lotions as well as frankincense. Peppermint is great in a morning lotion along with orange or tangerine.
Made mine with peppermint & lavendar!
Frankincense & Ylang Ylang
Frankincense & orange
Love frankincense
I would love to smell this!
This sounds great. WOULD love to try this.
I am going to try Frankincense, lavendar and cedarwood because I haven’t made this before . I am very excited to do it though!
I think geranium would be a great smelling oil to try in the body butter. Thanks for the recipe! I will be making it soon.
Stress Away or Joy
I would add Stress Away to it. I LOVE the smell and would love to cover my body with it!
This sounds wonderful! The recipe I have been using has coconut oil and half cocoa butter, half mango butter. When I make this, I will be adding rose, lavender, manuka and frankincense oils! What a pampering my skin will have!
Frankincense and lavender
I would use the lavender for sure, frankincense if I had it and would be willing to try out the cedarwood as it’s one I haven’t had in my body butter. Others I would think about would be cypress, sandalwood or Joy.
This whipped body butter is wonderful! I made mine with Frankincense essential oil and it smells amazing!
Wintergreen, peppermint, copiabia.
I saw a recipe with these oils in it: lime oil, grapefruit oil, lemon oil, and tangerine they sound very energizing and uplifting. They sound like they would make a wonderful Aroma for first thing in the morning! Lol!
Stress Away for this teacher! Perfect for holiday gifts!
Lavender & Frankincense.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I love making body butters. My favorite oils to add for my very dry skin are Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood, Helichrysum, and Cedarwood.
Frankincense, Lavender and maybe a drop of peppermint .
Being new to oils, I’ve been looking forward to make body butter for Christmas gifts. I would add frankincense to my homemade batch of body butter, love the smell.
With cacao butter I recommend a smell that works well with a chocolatey smell. Peppermint is an excellent choice or orange essential oil, otherwise I recommend using shea butter to use as it has a very subtle smell than works very well with any essential oil
I would use sensation, cypress and orange
I’m going to use Geranium! Love the way it smells!
I think I’d try some Stress Away for the great smell and feel of the stress melting away along with the skin feeling soft.
I would use Joy and Orange. I love the smell, and they make me feel happy.
Sounds incredible!
I’m going to make this at our Essential Oils small group, plan to use Geranium.
I love to use peppermint and lavender. My 2 kids like Theives in their lotion.
Rose Essential Oil would be wonderful.
I would like to try Lemon and Peppermint for a fresh clean scented lotion!
Rose!
This recipe sounds so luxurious.
Lavender, tea tree and peppermint were what I used the last time I made body butter.
I would try stress away or a lavendar / cedarwood combination.
I would put a little Peppermint in my body butter. I bet it would smell amazing!
I plan on using Cedarwood , Lavender & Frankincense for my daughter and I .
I also plan on doing one using Panaway, peppermint & Copaiba.
I am new to young living so I’m in the learning stage.
This is a great help to me to have the recipe available also with the holidays coming this would be a great gift idea for my family.
I would use lavender and rosemary love be these two oils together❣️❣️
Lime, Joy, or Lemongrass
Eucalyptus & Spearamint!! I love that combo – so relaxing!
Thanks for sharing information
I would use stress away in my body butter.
Thieves. Love the spicy smell
I would add lavender and some stress away essential oils
Ylang Ylang, Rosemary and Lemongrass.😊