30 Best Homemade Body Butter Recipes Kindle Edition

Lacking from this book is general instruction and explanation about what a body butter is and how one would formulate a recipe but worse is her inclusion of fresh fruit into body butter which is a high risk for bacterial and mold contamination and therefore dangerous to use.This is only a compilation of 30 recipes, there is no base information or instruction for a general education on the topic. The ebook lacks a biography or explanation anywhere of who this author is and what her credentials are to justify her expertise in presenting these recipes. Even her author page on Amazon is skimpy and there it says she has a soap business and she teaches but no business name is given so it lacks credibility.Oddly the measurements vary from ounces to grams to volume, this should be standard and it is should be in weight not volume.There is no explanation of what an essential oil is, something very basic to include. She also refers to vanilla cookie essential oil which is impossible, that's a fragrance oil and any soap maker or skin product maker should know that.Also important is it never says she created these formulas, so I am starting to suspect she culled them from the internet. For example the recipes lack any cohesion. For examle some have 2 parts butter to 1 part coconut and 1 part light oil while another has 1:1 ratio of butter to coconut oil and another has 1/2 cup coconut oil to 2 Tbsp shea butter, this makes no sense! These are all different products that will not produce the same type of product in the end. In the beginning she says that body butters are "sticky, oily, and greasy" then on the next page she says that these are designed to absorb into the skin and NOT be greasy. Which is it?The grammar is poor and in broken English. Grammar errors also exist on her Amazon author page.I do not trust this book and will not be using these recipes.

I’d give it no stars if I could. I bought this book and returned for a refund shortly after. Most of the recipes are unsafe as is. This writer clearly has no training or any education on essential oils, herbalism or formulating. Recipes included water based ingredients without proper emulsifiers or preservatives. There’s also no advice or warnings given for the essential oils used. No mention of phototoxicity when using certain citrus oils. Recipes are very sloppy and there is no continuity in measurements. She uses drops and teaspoons in some recipes and then switches to grams. If you have an understanding of aromatherapy and formulation then this book could be used to get ideas. But you’d have to reformulate the recipes to make them safe. If you are new and just learning, stay far away from this recipe for disaster! These recipes provide perfect examples of what not to do and how to grow mold and bacteria in your products!

I can't actually comment on the recipes themselves because I haven't actually made any of them...and I won't be trying any of them. The recipes are very confusing. The author goes from using metric measurements in one recipe to using standard (or English/American) measurements in others. The grammar is poor and difficult to follow. There is one recipe where she instructs you to prepare a water bath, but she never says what you are to do with the water bath. And as other commenters have stated, she suggests the use of ingredients (like fruit and plain water, not distilled water) which can lead to contaminants, like mold, in the product. I will be looking for another book if I decide to try making my own body products.

I found a few good recipes in here that I will most likely try. Several of them sounded a little tricky. I really liked how she specified where to store the butters and how long they lasted for most of the recipies. Hope the others last longer for 3 months as she did not specify. 😁 Good Book! Worth the download!

Measurements are a mix of European and English, though thankfully not in the same recipe for the most part. The author apparently has no concept of what an essential oil is, or how it differs from a fragrance oil. Both are called essential oils in this book. I can only hope that the recipe that calls for more essential oils than carrier oils is a mistake that was missed in proofreading.

Easy to follow instructions if you know your way around a double broiler, which is essential to every recipe. So many neat ideas and great natural ingredients I easily found on etsy! Love this book a great resource for Christmas presents!!

It me no time to read this. I like to make hair care recipes and a lot of these will make good hair products.

Adding juice to bee wax .. will not result in good emulsion .. possible separation ... no preservitive added to freshly juice mixed with butter ,microbes will grow up

This book is just full of Body Butter Massage Creams recipes that I’m sure will tickle your fancy…Mostly made from Shea Butter ( which in case you didn’t know is an off- white or ivory-colored fat extracted from the nut of the African Shea tree) You will find 30 recipes that are combined with either Chocolate, Mango, Honey, or Peppermint just to mention a few of the amazing ingredients that you can cook up so to give yourself your preferred scent, for your skin care or treatment…My wife loved it...

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