3 Ingredient Chocolate Whipped Body Butter
This body butter is magical. Though it only has 3 ingredients, it pampers, comforts, and nourishes your skin without any lingering residue. It’s rich and creamy yet light and fluffy, deeply penetrating for a baby soft experience. Needless to say, this is the only body moisturizer I’ll use anymore. At first glance, it looks like whipped frosting and the wafting scent of chocolate doesn’t lessen the temptation to lick it off the spoon. Because it’s all natural with food grade ingredients, it’s definitely possible but not recommended {as it doesn’t really taste like much since it doesn’t have any sugar}. However, if you’d like to make some chocolate with the cacao butter too, I have a recipe for homemade chocolate. A little bit of this body butter goes a long way, a dab will do ya and your skin will literally drink it up. Smeared on freshly shaven legs the night before, I always wake up to incredibly silky smooth skin the next day. It’s like butter baby…literally.
Since my whipped body butter utilizes cacao butter as its base, it will naturally smell of chocolate but it can also serve as a great platform for essential oils. I personally love halving each batch and using one for moisturizing purposes and the other to use as a massage butter with frankincense and lavender, which is just heavenly. For the latter, I use 10-20 drops altogether for each batch. Just make sure to obtain the best quality essential oil you can get your hands on as to not ruin your batch of body butter.
I hope you enjoy my recipe. I love it so much that I’m actually spreading the love to my own mother and future mother in-law, Jan {who is like my second mother!} I love you both so much! I hope it will serve as a great addition for your own mama’s homemade beauty or spa basket too. Happy Mother’s Day!
- 4 oz cacao butter
- 2 oz coconut oil
- 2 oz grape seed, jojoba, olive, or sweet almond oil
- Optional: 10-20 drops of pure essential oils*
- Go low and slow to melt the cacao butter in a pot, double boiler, or in 35-45 second increments in the microwave.
- Remove from heat and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
- Allow the oils to partially solidify {either at room temperature or in the fridge for about an hour}.
- It is ready when it’s beginning to harden but still soft enough to scoop.
- Whip either by hand or use the whisk attachment on a stand mixer. Beat until fluffy and stiff peaks form. This is when you can add in essential oils.
- Store in a glass container below 75 degrees.
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thanks for clarifying. as soon as i saw pic i started to drool and wanted to eat it!
I actually tasted this {for research purposes–haha} and it doesn’t taste great but it sure smells good enough to eat–what a tease! =)
Ooooh, what a delightful gift for Momma, sounds almost good enough to eat.
The queen of DIYs, thank you!! Still remember your home made lip balm that costs less for more!
Julie & Alesah
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I am a big big fan of diy home creams and I’ve made this and love it. I always go back to geranium oil and it smells heavenly. Love it.
Hi Angela, wow… this moisturizer look fantastic. Would love to give it a try… but not sure if I can find cacao butter in my territory. :))
Thanks for sharing.
Have a wonderful weekend, regards.
Amelia
I love that you made your own body butter!!
I love that it’s made of all natural ingredients! The texture looks so luscious and light.
Thank you Squishy,
I appreciate your simple and great ideas!
Thank YOU, Jessica. I really appreciate you! Thank you for sending some time with me =)
Do you have any DIY for sugar scrubs,and how to make our own infused essential oils?
Hi, Tracy! I don’t atm but will definitely be adding those to my list. Thanks for the suggestions! I hope you’ll also check out my DIY list =)
I have been using this recipe for a while now and it is so soft and helps my dry skin.
That’s awesome, Raya. Thank you so much for letting me know!! =)
Hi and thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Can I use Coco Butter or Mango Butter instead of Cacao Butter? Thank you in advance for your response.