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Winter can take a serious toll on skin, drying it out so that it looks dull or even cracked. This homemade lavender body butter recipe is perfect to use during the winter months and will even help to get rid of crocodile skin for good once winter is over.
This thick body butter is a go-to for winter-ravaged skin. Shea butter is naturally rich in Vitamins A and E that help soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin.
Mango butter has natural emollient, wound healing, and regenerative properties. Make this homemade body butter to avoid any unwanted additives or nasty chemicals and heal your skin naturally.
Why make your own body butter at home?
Even the most natural commercial companies need to put additives in their products to make them shelf-stable for the time that they spend in the store before they are purchased and brought home. Many also contain synthetic additives to enhance smell, texture and color for mass marketing.
Most of the chemicals added to commercial body butters, like parabens, fragrance (an unregulated term that can hide any of 3,000 different chemicals) and butylated compounds, act as endocrine disruptors in the body and can contribute to organ toxicity.
By making homemade body butter you can avoid these nasty chemicals and select for the highest quality, organic ingredients! You get so much more control when making your own beauty products.
Lavender Body Butter Recipe Ingredients
Shea butter is a nourishing nut butter made from the African shea tree. It is high in vitamins E and A, both of which boost skin health. It also has a rich fatty acid profile, including oleic acid and palmitic acid. This is what makes shea butter so moisturizing to the skin. Refined shea butter has a more mild smell and smoother texture, while unrefined shea butter has a slightly higher vitamin content since it is less processed. Look for a shea butter that is certified organic by a third party.
Mango butter is made from the seeds of the mango fruit tree. It is also high in Vitamin A, giving in skin health-boosting properties. Mango butter is soothing to the skin and helps to repair skin damage. For the highest quality mango butter, check to make sure that it has not been blended with other ingredients.
Grapeseed oil is made from the seeds of the wine grape plant. It is naturally high in antioxidants and vitamin E and may help reduce the appearance of scars. Its fatty acid content makes it a great moisturizer. Look for a cold-extracted or first-press grapeseed oil for the best quality.
Beeswax is made from bees’ honeycomb – it both provides a firm texture that provides extra thickness for this recipe, and it helps to form a protective, humectant layer on top of the skin. This barrier keeps moisture in and also draws more moisture towards it. Beeswax is also known to decrease tearing in the skin and soothe damaged skin.
Lavender essential oil is distilled from lavender plants. This is a highly beneficial oil, which is naturally antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Lavender essential oil also helps to heal little cuts and reduce the formation of scar tissues. For best results, make sure you purchase a 100% essential oil that has not been blended with anything else.
Lavender or chamomile flower water can be used in this recipe. Both are hydrosols made from either the lavender or chamomile flower. Both have soothing effects on the skin and can help to reduce redness. True hydrosols should only contain two ingredients: water and the flower the hydrosol is made from.
In this recipe, you can substitute grapeseed oil with another carrier oil – grapeseed oil just happens to be what I had in my kitchen! Other carrier oils that are good for dry skin are almond oil, apricot kernel oil, jojoba oil, and kukui oil.
The texture of homemade body butter
If you expect a super light-weight lavender body butter recipe, then look again, this is good for dry skin that needs a strong moisturizer. It’s nice and thick and leaves a protective barrier on the skin to preserve hydration.
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons of organic Shea butter
- 2 tablespoons of organic mango butter
- 3 tablespoons of organic grapeseed oil
- 1 tablespoon of chamomile flower water
- 1 tablespoon of organic beeswax pellets
- EO:
- 10 to 15 drops of lavender essential oil
Instructions
- Directions
- Add the mango, shea butter and oil plus beeswax together in your double boiler on low heat until they are melted.
- Then add the chamomile flower water. Take the bowl off the heat and start whipping with an electric or manual mixer for a few minutes until the liquid becomes liquid cream. Then add the essential oils if desired and stir. Pour in a glass jar and let sit for a few hours. The butter will start to solidify and will soon be ready to use!
- Use within 6 months. Yield 4 OZ.
Dry skin tips to banish winter skin
Use daily or as needed. Apply all over your body after showering or only on elbows and knees with dry skin. Don’t you forget, croc ladies: beauty is inside out. Be sure to drink plenty of water, and eat nourishing natural whole foods. Healthy fats are especially important for skin health so make sure to eat fatty fish like salmon, or to consume coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil and plant-based fatty foods such as nuts and avocados.
Finally, while I agree that hot showers certainly feel divine, your skin will thank you for turning down the hot knob a notch!
Please let me know what you think of this lavender body butter recipe.
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I’m Eve, a DIY organic skincare recipe creator since 2010 that loves to make a big mess in the kitchen!
I’ve embarked on a journey to empower women to ditch all the chemical-filled commercial beauty products and to share how to make your own organic beauty recipes at home towards a healthier lifestyle.
Homemade face & body creams, body butter, lips balms, face masks, shampoos, and all-natural perfume will have no more secret for you!
I am self-taught, read many books, and spend many hours in the kitchen creating brand new homemade beauty recipes. All my recipes are unique and are tested on humans!
In 2016, I studied Aromatherapy and became certified by the School of Natural Health Sciences.
This looks so wonderful ( all the recipes do)… Do you have source you can recommend for all of ingredients? I know I can many of them on Amazon but I want to be sure of good quality.
Thank you !!
HI katie, in the usa I really like mountain rose herbs, they have a lot of great quality organic herbs, oils and butter: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/index.php?AID=120745&BID=10697
Hi! Can I make chamomile water at home? Is it like a chamomile tea? Thank you!!
HI Julia, no it is chamomille hydrosol which is the water coming from the esential oil distillation. You could use chamomille tea but it wont last more than a few days.
How long will this recipe last? What sort of natural preservative would you use… vitamin e? grapefruit seed oil?
HI Sherry, i did not put any natural preservatives because there is no water in the recipe. it keeps for 6 months. cheers, Eve