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Luxury chocolate whipped body butter
Anna on her blog published a recipe for Chocolate mousse body butter.It’s been some time I made my last whipped butter and this recipe just made me want to make one again!
The original recipe is pure oils and butters, very natural. Having for some time at my possesion a very interesting ingredient called Isopropyl myristate (IPM).
This ingredient is an ester of isopropyl alcohol and myristic acid (fatty acid from coconut oil). It feels like dry oil, is very readily absorbed into skin and therefore used in cosmetics to:
- impart less greasy feeling
- deliver ingredients into skin
However, it is comedogenic so should not be used for acne-prone skin.
For IPM to work in a 100% oil product, we need a larger quantity – the recipes I read say up to 33%. Therefore I had to change proportions of ingredients and substitute IPM for part of butters. This meant I needed to add beeswax to make it harder again.
I also substituted dark chocolate I had at hand for cocoa powder and did not add essential oils, just because I used grapeseed oil infused with vanilla, more cocoa butter and chocolate, which all smell great already.
… it was worthy, it really does smell good and soaks into my skin very quickly!
Recipe
Here is the original and my adjusted recipe (for comparison) – the original recipe is in cups, so I estimated percentages.
| Ingredient | % (100% natural original recipe) |
% (my adjusted recipe easy to absorb) |
| Coconut oil | 25% | 14% |
| Cocoa butter | 25% | 25% |
| Shea butter | 25% | 14% |
| Jojoba oil | 12.5% | 6.5% |
| Grapeseed oil vanilla infusion | 6.5% | |
| Macadamia oil | 12.5% | |
| Isopropyl myristate | 26% | |
| Beeswax | 4.5% | |
| Dark chocolate | 2.5% | |
| Cocoa powder | 4 TBSP (for 500g) | |
| Vitamin E | 40 drops (for 500g) | 1% |
| EO orange or vanilla | 40 drops (for 500g) |
Instructions
1. Put all ingredients in a pot and heat gently until all melted, but pay attention not to overheat (keep it at 75°C), otherwise the butters can get grainy
2. After melting, I put everything into the fridge overnight. Left overnight (it was late already), then in the morning let it at room temperature.
3. In the evening I put it in the electric mixer and whipped for 5 minutes at maximal speed
Thiis is how it looks like – whipped, with air bubbles…
This butter is really yummy, soft, whipped and can be easily absorbed!
Do you have any favorite body butter recipes?
PS: I bought my isopropyl myristate at saveoncitric.com
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#2 written by evik 8 years ago
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#5 written by Agnes 8 years ago
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#6 written by evik 8 years ago
Isopropyl myristate is an ester of isopropanol (alcohol) and myristic acid (fatty acid from oils). It is derived synthetically. It is used in lot of cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations to enhance penetration to the skin. It is pretty safe, but I don’t really know where to draw a line and say this is acceptable and this is not. It is very personal. See, glycerin is also considered natural as you said, however, you can be allergic to it. Also if you eat glycerin, you can get diarrhoea. So how do we define harmless? Non-toxic, non-carcinogenic, something that does not kill you? Have a look here: http://ijt.sagepub.com/content/1/4/55.abstract It seems that IPM is pretty safe.
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Evik, your body butter looks really good too! It looks more loose then the original one, but I am sure it absorbs well. Great idea on adding real dark chocolate to it!!