Homemade Body Butter Recipe With Beeswax
This homemade body butter recipe is made with beeswax, essential oils, and other natural ingredients making it a wonderful choice for all skin types!
I have been cursed with skin that immediately gets red and chapped as soon as cooler weather hits. It’s been especially bad if I’m pregnant or breastfeeding (which has basically been the last ten years!)
I used to slather store-bought lotions on all Winter, and my skin would look better for a little while. But because lotion contains a high percentage of water, it doesn’t give you that deep hydrating repair that body butter does.
Fast forward to a few years ago when I started making most of my family’s skincare products from scratch. Now I make my own body butter that actually works to heal my skin instead of making it feel better temporarily. It’s all natural and effective. No need to look further!
Have you tried making my homemade beeswax lip balm yet?
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What You Need To Make Homemade Beeswax Body Butter
ingredients
- white beeswax pellets – Adding a little beeswax to your lip balm helps to make it feel less greasy on your lips while still moisturizing.
- vitamin E oil – Known for its many beneficial properties, vitamin e oil is nourishing and healing for damaged skin like scars and stretch marks.
- shea butter – Softens your skin, and tones and soothes. Shea butter is also known for its anti inflammatory properties making it a wonderful ingredient for homemade skin care products.
- coconut oil – Helps protect your skin and lips by providing antioxidants as well as minimizing signs of aging.
- sweet almond oil – Has healing properties that make it helpful with acne and other skin blemishes. Jojoba oil, olive oil or any other carrier oil would work as substitutes is you have them on hand instead.
- essential oils (optional) – Adding your favorite fruity or spice essential oils to your lip balms, you can customize them to your taste!
supplies
- Hand mixer or Stand Mixer – You will need an electric mixer to make homemade whipped body butter to get a good creamy consistency.
- Double Boiler – Or you can just add an inch or two of water to a saucepan and a glass bowl on top of the saucepan. Heat the water over medium heat and add your ingredients to the glass bowl to melt.
How To Make Body Butter With Beeswax
Melt – Using a double boiler or a glass bowl on top of a pot with a few inches of water in it, heat the jojoba oil, coconut oil, shea butter and beeswax over medium low heat until there are no solid bits left.
Add Essential Oils – Remove from the heat, cool for a couple minutes and add 20 drops of essential oil of your choice.
Cool – Let the mixture cool to room temperature and then place in the fridge for an additional hour until it has started to harden, but is still soft to the touch.
Whip – Using a stand mixer or handheld beaters, whip the body butter mixture until it is light and fluffy, About 3 minutes.
Tips For Success
To Use : This body butter is safe to use on any parts of your body, but it’s best to avoid sensitive areas. If you experience any kind of skin irritation, stop using immediately.
To Store – Body butter has a pretty long shelf life since it doesn’t contain any water that would make it go rancid over time. It can be stored at room temperature for 3 months or in a cool place for up to 6 months.
Because this recipe uses essential oils, its best to store it in a glass amber jar or at least out of direct sunlight.
Variations – Using essential oils as the fragrance in this body butter, you can try different oil combinations each time you make a new batch!
Substitutions – You can use jojoba or olive oil in place of the almond oil in this recipe.
About This Body Butter Recipe With Beeswax
- No worrisome chemicals in this body butter, making it a great choice for sensitive skin.
- You can whip up enough body butter to last your family all Winter in just a few minutes!
- It only costs a few dollars worth of ingredients to make. That’s a fraction of the cost of store-bought all natural body butter!
- All of the ingredient are hydrating and soothing for dry skin.This body butter with beeswax is really creamy but doesn’t leave with a greasy feeling on your skin.
- It’s easy to make this body butter so many different scents using essential oils!
FAQ About This Homemade Body Butter Recipe
what are the benefits of beeswax in body butter?
Aside from keeping the natural moisture in your skin, using a small amount of beeswax in homemade body butter helps to keep it in a more solid form as its exposed to temperature changes.
Homemade body butter can feel greasy as the soft butter ingredients are rubbed onto warm skin. A little bit of beeswax added to the recipe will help to keep your skin feeling moisturized and less like you rubbed oil on it.
how much beeswax should you use in body butter?
I like to stick to 2 tablespoons of beeswax pellets for an 8 ounce jar of body butter. It’s just the right amount to make it thick and creamy but not waxy.
why is homemade body butter sometimes greasy?
Homemade lotions and body butters sometimes leave your skin feeling greasy because your body temperature is just warm enough to melt the butters in the lotion.
Adding beeswax can help with this because it helps to keep body butter solid as it’s exposed to warm skin.
what are the benefits of beeswax on the skin?
Beeswax lightly coats the skin, locking in moisture to keep your skin from drying out as quickly.
This natural wax also acts as a natural exfoliator, helping to shed dry skin as it’s being applied.
What Can You Make with beeswax?
There are so many things you can make with beeswax: Lip balms, furniture polish, leather conditioner, candles even baby lotion! I like to have a bag of beeswax pellets on hand because I’m always finding new uses for it!
More DIY Skin Care Products
- All Natural Baby Wash
- Homemade Honey Oatmeal Soap – With Pink Clay
- DIY Strawberry Lip Balm
- Homemade Orange Blossom Face Wash
- Handmade Orange Lip Balm
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Homemade Body Butter With Beeswax
Its so much easier than you would think to make your own homemade skincare products! This homemade body butter recipe is made with beeswax, essential oils, and other natural ingredients making it a wonderful choice for all skin types!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup shea butter
- 2 Tablespoons unrefined coconut oil
- 2 Tablespoons sweet almond oil or jojoba oil
- 2 Tablspoons beeswax pellets
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
- 20-30 drops essential oils
Instructions
- Using a double boiler or a glass bowl on top of a pot with a few inches of water in it, heat the jojoba oil, coconut oil, shea butter and beeswax over medium low heat until there are no solid bits left.
- Remove from the heat, cool for a couple minutes and add 20-30 drops of essential oil of your choice.
- Let the mixture cool to room temperature and then place in the fridge for an additional hour until it has started to harden, but is still soft to the touch.
- Using a stand mixer or handheld beaters, whip the body butter mixture until it is light and fluffy, About 3 minutes.
Notes
To Use : This body butter is safe to use on any parts of your body, but it's best to avoid sensitive areas. If you experience any kind of skin irritation, stop using immediately.
To Store – Body butter has a pretty long shelf life since it doesn't contain any water that would make it go rancid over time. It can be stored at room temperature for 3 months or in a cool place for up to 6 months.
Because this recipe uses essential oils, its best to store it in a glass amber jar or at least out of direct sunlight.
Variations - Using essential oils as the fragrance in this body butter, you can try different oil combinations each time you make a new batch!
Substitutions - You can use jojoba or olive oil in place of the almond oil in this recipe.
Hello can you use mica and fragrance oil (instead of essential oil)
I would make sure whatever fragrance oil you use is food safe and safe to apply to your skin first.
Thanks for this! This is the first time I’ve made it and it isn’t greasy!!
I did put 1 teaspoon of arrowroot while mixing, but other than that, I followed exactly
When did you add in your arrowroot flour?
I’d just add it after melting the oils.
Hi,
Have any tips for cleaning everything afterwards? It’s so hard to get the lotion off the mixer, bowl, etc.
The clean up is definitely the one down side to making your own lotion! I heat the utensils and bowl in the microwave and then wipe them down with a paper towel before washing them with dish soap.
Does this recipe go hard after a few hours? I’ve made lotion with coconut oil before and it would be much better as a bar because it goes hard (in my warm house) within a few hours. I’d love to try this one but want to be sure it stays creamy.
If you use fractionated coconut oil it won’t go hard because it doesn’t ever solidify like the coconut oil you use in food recipes does.
Great content! Thank you and I will definitely try this.
Do you have to whip it? I just melted mine in the microwave and let it get solid.
You can do it that way to make things easier. But whipping the mixture gives you a creamier and fluffier result.
Hi! Can I use sweet almond oil in place of the coconut oil? As in, jojoba & sweet almond instead of jojoba and coconut?
Thanks! Excited to try this for Christmas gifts. 🙂
Yes you can swap the oils around!
I want to use glycerine in my lotion. Any advise n ow to add it to this recipe?
I have mast cell disease and have become allergic to my body lotions/butters. I already make my own deodorant due to this illness. I am wondering if instead of shea butter do you think cocoa butter would work in its place? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
Hello Cheryl! Yes, you can definitely swap the shea butter for cocoa butter!