This body butter cream is soft and delicious like a whipped cream and contains oils that will soften and nourish your body: argan, macadamia, apricot, rice bran and rosehip.

Of course, it contains a good amount of shea and cocoa butters. The latter gives the cream such a delicate and yummy scent that I decided not to include any fragrance. However, if you want you can add the fragrance or essential oils you prefer.

To make it even more rich, pleasant and effective, I formulated this luscious body butter cream with avocado unsaponifiables that regenerate the skin, Sodium PCA for a moisturizing effect and allantoin + hyaluronic acid gel for a shooting effect.

The result is a thick, soft cream that nourishes and moisturizes the skin. Body butters use to be quite heavy and greasy because they don't use to contain water, but this formula is different and more pleasant as it’s a rich oil in water emulsion.
So soft and irresistible that you will run out of it in no time!

Handmade Body butter cream ingredients

Water phase

• Water: 64.1 g
• Xanthan gum: 0.2 g
• Glycerin: 2 g
• Allantoin: 0.1 g

Oil phase

• Coco caprylate: 3 g
• Argan oil: 2 g
• Macadamia oil: 2 g
• Apricot kernel oil: 2 g
• Rice oil: 3 g
• Cocoa butter: 4 g
• Olivem 1000: 5 g

Oil phase 1

• Shea butter: 2 g
• Avocado unsaponifiables: 3 g

Cooling down phase

• Rosehip oil: 2 g
• Sodium hyaluronate gel: 2 g
• Sodium PCA: 2 g
• Tocopheryl acetate: 1 g
• Cosgard or any other Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid preservative: 0.6 g

DIY body butter cream recipe

If you are not familiar about how to make a lotion, click here.

• Put the allantoin in a beacker with 64.1 g of water and mix well.
  
  
• Pour glycerin and xanthan into another beacker and pour the liquid allatoin and water solution, stirring until you get a gel.
  
  
• Pour the ingredients of the oil phase into another beacker.
  
  
• Heat the oil and water phases in separate beakers in a water bath.
  
  
• When the oil phase has melted completely add the ingredients of oil phase 1 and stir until melted.
  
  
• Combine oil and water phases when they reach about 75 degrees.
  
  
• Blend with an immersion blender for about 3 minutes.
  
  
• Switch to a cold water bath and continue stirring with a silicone spatula until the cream reaches about 37 degrees.
  
  
• Add the cooling down phase ingredients, stirring each time. Give a final whisk.
  
  
• Measure and adjust the pH if necessary, which should be between 5 and 6.5.
  
  
• Your DIY buttercream is ready!