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Dry Face? Fine Lines? Make a Nourishing Cocoa Butter Face Balm

by Andrea Butje, LMT, Aromatherapy Educator on August 26, 2019

This is a Cocoa Butter Face Balm Stick You can Carry in Your Bag

Cocoa butter’s favorite hobby is skin care.

It has mastered the art of nourishing and protecting skin! It’s good for sensitive skin, delicate skin, irritated skin and mature skin. It’s good for adults’ skin, kids’ skin, babies’ skin, and seniors’ skin.

Here’s a quote from my book, The Heart of Aromatherapy, about cocoa butter:

“Cocoa butter is rich with skin-loving fatty acids and vitamin E, and it acts as an antioxidant. Its texture is very firm, smooth, and a bit powdery on the surface when it’s solid, and it melts into a silky liquid on your skin. It is often used to restore very dry, cracked skin and to replenish aging skin. It is deeply moisturizing, nourishing, and protective.”

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How To Melt Shea Butter and Natural Oils for Body Care

by Andrea Butje, LMT, Aromatherapy Educator on April 20, 2015

Learn how to melt shea butter and natural oils so you can make your own body products.

It’s one thing to follow a recipe—and that’s important when you’re creating a product that you want to replicate—but by understanding how to melt natural oils and butters, you’ll be able to get creative. There's no end to the variety of body products you can make!

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Marula Oil For Massage Therapists

April 07, 2012

Many massage therapists just love marula oil for massage, because of its silky consistency and the benefits it holds for a wide range of skin conditions. Marula oil is a light and lovely South African carrier oil. It has a gentle aroma that easily blends with most essential oils, which is just another reason people love using marula oil for massage. […]

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Cocoa Butter and Coconut Oil: The Perfect Relationship

February 24, 2012

Cocoa butter and coconut oil adore each other! The textures of cocoa butter and coconut oil complement one another, and the aromas are perfect together. I like to make the following simple body butter for daily skin moisturizing. It's silky smooth and can be used every day after your shower. […]

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Dry, Chapped Skin Butter

February 15, 2012

This aromatic butter recipe makes a silky, easily-applied chapped skin body butter that moisturizes, soothes, and protects. Body butters are pure nourishment for your skin! The true art of creating body butters has to do with the ratio of butter to oil to wax. To create a chapped skin body butter that's soft and easy to apply, a 6:1 ratio is ideal. Six parts of butters and oils, to one part beeswax. […]

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Blend With Unique Carrier Oils and Butters

August 17, 2010

Creating body butters and essential oil blends with carrier oils has always brought me--and my skin--great pleasure! When creating an essential oil blend in a carrier, getting creative is a good thing! Choose from a wide variety of butters and oils. When deciding, think about consistency, the therapeutic properties of the carrier, and your intention for the blend. […]

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