Shea Butter Body Cream
Formula 2 (still heating method)
Materials:
-Bees wax--------1/2 Size of your tomb
-Shea butter--------- 1 slab
-Oil-------------------2-4 spoons
-Fragrance----------as desired
-Vitamin E----------1 spoon
-Alcohol-------------1-2 spoons
(ethanol or IPA(issopropanol))
Looking at the above ingredients, you can see we are getting advanced.
PROCEDURES:
•Following the same instruction in formula one in melting your shea butter, put the wax together with the butter and stir as they melt together
•Add the oil and stir gently
By now, you should have turned off the heat.
•Add the vitamin E and stir
•Add the fragrance and stir together.
Finally, pour the content into a container for use.
-The wax used will thicken the mixture giving it a nice texture
-The vitamin E, apart from it’s moisturising effect, it also helps in preserving the product.
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the alcohol used is to preserve the product. Since we are trying to avoid chemicals as much as possible, alcohol is the best option.
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I’m recommending PKO(palm kernel oil) because of its anti-ageing properties but you may use any oil of your choice, just make sure you know what you are doing.
Also, when heating ensure that you don’t over heat the ingredients or else the healing properties of your ingredient will be lost.
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