As we move through winter, I'm called to share a body butter recipe that's kept my skin happy in the blowing winds and biting cold. It's a great skin treamtment year round, but I find it especially wonderful in the cold and dry.
Body Butter
2 Parts Cocoa Butter
1 Part Almond Oil
1 Part Avocado Oil
I use a scale to measure the ingredints right into a steel bowl.
Then set the bowl over boiling water and whisk the oils together until completely combined.
After the oils have completely cooled and solidified, scoop the mixture out onto a plate and mash it with a fork until pliable.
Fill a stone container with the mixture and make a little well in the center for essential oils.
Add the essential oils and carefully mix. I use a ratio of 8 drops of essential oil for every ounce of body butter in the container.
The body butter is fairly solid in the stone container but melts on contact with the skin. I use a popsicle stick to dig it out.
Recipe adapted from Absolute Beauty: Radiant Skin and Inner Harmony Through the Ancient Secrets of Ayurveda, by Pratima Raichur.