Emulsified Tallow Body Butter
This rich and creamy body butter will beautifully nourish and moisturize your skin! Made with skin-loving tallow and oils it will leave your skin glowing and smooth!
Ingredients
Water Phase
- 130 g distilled water or filtered, boiled water
- 10 g vegetabe glycerin substitue with water if not on hand
Oil Phase
- 30 g tallow or shea butter deoderized.
- 14 g emulsifying wax
- 10 g oil graseed, jojoba or apricot kernel
- 4 g cetyl alcohol
Cool Down Phase
- 2 g optiphen plus
- 2 g essential oil sweet orange, lavender, sandalwood...
Instructions
Keep it clean
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Your work area, tools and packaging container must be clean before starting this project. Run heat-resistant tools through the dishwasher, spray them down with diluted rubbing alcohol and dry them with a clean towel.
Weigh Out Your Ingredients
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Use a digital kitchen scale to achieve precise measurements.
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Make sure that you weigh the water and milk in one recipient (aqueous phase) and oil and emulsifying wax (oil phase) in another. Don't mix them yet.
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Use a slightly bigger glass measuring cup for the milk/water mix that will fit your immersion blender.
Heat Your Ingredients
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In order for the emulsifying wax to work, both phases need to be heated to at least 160℉. Fill a saucepan with 1 Inch of water and set on medium heat. I like to put both containers in there, so they reach the same temperature simultaneously. Sitr frequently and use a meat thermometer to check if they're hot enough.
Mix
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When both phases have reached 160℉, take them off the heat (Careful: Containers will be hot!) and combine by pouring the oil phase into the water mixture. Then, using an immersion blender, mix on low for 30 seconds.
Cool Down
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Let the mixture cool down to 85℉ before adding the preservative and essential oil. Mix well with your immersion blender.
Packaging
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Use a spatula to tranfer your body butter into a glass jar with lid.
Shelf life
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Use within 2-3 months, use clean hands to take body butter from jar to avoid contamination.