A body butter is a cream texture that is excellent at hydrating and protecting the skin, especially during winter or if your skin is dry. The skin becomes softer and less prone to cracking or becoming inflamed when using a natural body butter. It can help minimize wrinkles, scars, and stretch marks. If you prefer not to buy products designed specifically to hydrate skin by experts in their field, you can put together multi colored stuff at home.
Take 1 and 1/3 of Shea butter in your measuring cups and pack it in.
Empty the measured Shea butter into a Pyrex glass cup to melt the butter.
Place the Pyrex cup into a cooking cup so as to not to burn the butter in the melting process.
Melt the butter on medium heat.
Wait until the butter has melted completely, pour it out in a bowl.
Let it cool for 15 minutes.
Measure 1/2 cup of carrier/sweet almond or olive oil and pour it into the melted butter.
Add 1 teaspoon of Vitamin E oil into the mixture. Optional: You can add Crushed oatmeal or corn starch. Optional to make it less greasy: 2 Tablespoon Corn Starch (grocery store), Tapioca Starch (grocery store), or finely milled Oatmeal which you may prefer because it soothes irritated and itchy skin like poison ivy/oak/sumac, rashes, insect bites, and eczema. It also soothes prickly heat, chicken pox, hives or sunburn.
Mix it up! Optional again: Add 1-2 TSP of your favorite scented oil.
Mix it up with a whisker or an electric whisk for 2 min.
Wait till you see it solidifying a little. (partially solidifying)
Wait until you see it solidifying a bit. Place it in the freezer for 10 to 20 min.
Bring out the (almost) frozen mixture and whisk it again with the electric whisker until its whipped enough. You will know when it forms peaks on the whisker. When it does, it is whisked enough.
Put the whipped mixture into a bowl.
Add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of your favorite rainbow colors i.e water soluble color or soap color. Ensure whatever coloring you choose your body butter won't stain your skin.
Make sure you separate the mixtures into portions into different bowls if you want to have multicolored butter. Add the same amount i.e 1/2 or 1 TSP color to each slot and whisk it.
Scoop and layer your butter the way you preference. If you want Yellow to be the up-most layer do so. If you wish, layer, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo then violet.
Push down and layer.
Wipe the sides of the container for clear layers.
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