Try this homemade whipped body butter made with cocoa butter, coconut oil and almond oil. If you love the smell of cocoa butter, this is the creamy concoction for you. I had to go buy some chocolate to eat after using this — it smells that good. I remember when I was in my teens, I bought bars of cocoa butter to smooth over my skin in hopes of getting a better tan. So yea, this makes me feel young again.
My other body butters have beeswax in them, (and no cocoa butter) but this one does not have any beeswax, and therefore it is easy to melt and whip up in your mixer. I like simple recipes with little clean-up. I will never whip up anything with beeswax, because it is just too hard to clean that waxy residue.
This recipe is easy to make and cleans up super nice. Really, it is similar to making chocolate ganache.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup cocoa butter (4 oz jar)
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup almond oil
First, gather the ingredients. I ordered my cocoa butter from Mountain Rose. The coconut oil I picked up at the grocery store and the almond oil I ordered from Amazon. If you are lucky, the containers for the cocoa butter and the coconut oil will be microwave-proof — that way you can just melt it right in the container in the microwave. If not, you will have to spoon it out into a glass mason jar and melt it over hot water. If this is the case, just set the mason jar in a pan of water and heat it until the oils melt.
Otherwise, put the microwave-proof container of cocoa butter in the microwave and give it a blast for about 1 minute. Check to see if it has melted and if not, give it another 30 sec. Check. Once melted, measure out 1/2 cup and pour into a glass mason jar. Do the same with the coconut oil — if you can microwave it right in the container, then do so and measure out 1/4 cup of melted coconut oil and put it in the mason jar with the cocoa butter. Now measure the 1/4 cup of almond oil and put it in the jar as well. Mix well.
Put the jar in the refrigerator for about an hour, checking to see if it starts to set up — It should start to set around the edges. At this point, pour it into the mixing bowl of your mixer. Let it cool more, and begin to solidify — but not hard. You can also put a kitchen towel with ice in it under the bowl, this will speed things along.
Get your wire whip attached and whip this up until light and fluffy. If it has chilled enough it will whip, if not — you must chill it a little more. You can even put an ice pack under the bottom of the bowl to give it more chill while beating
Spoon it into a new clean mason jar — and resist tasting the beaters — it smells like desert.
Clean up is easy — just soap and water or put it in the dishwasher.
This whipped body butter will firm up a little bit in the jar — but not hard — you can still scoop it out with your fingers and apply it over your skin. Now, you will smell as divine as the cocoa butter.
 
