This is a festive body butter, using the soft colors of rose and butterfly pea powder to bring a warm color and cheer to the body butter. The butterfly pea powder adds a soft blue hue, a little reminder of cozy nights of winter and the rose is warm and inviting.
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Scented with a few drops of rose geranium and frankincense it is calming and nurturing for your skin and your spirit. It makes a hydrating addition to add to your Glowy Skin Routine
To make this swirled body butter, a batch of body butter is made and then split into three parts. One part is colored with rose powder, another part is colored with butterfly pea powder, and the third section is left uncolored. When they are piped all together into the jar it creates a beautiful swirl of color and adds skin nurturing plant power to the body butter.
These would make fun holiday gifts, perfect for winter, to soothe skin and to brighten the darker, drearier day of the cold season with its pretty swirls of color.
The vanilla and rose scent in this is optional, you could leave it unscented or scent it with other skin safe essential oils that you love.
Festive Swirl Body Butter
¾ cup Shea Butter (6oz)
¼ cup Coconut Oil (2oz)
½ cup Apricot Oil (4oz)
1 tbs Rose powder
1 tsp Butterfly Pea powder
10 drops Rose Geranium essential oil
5 tsp arrowroot powder
Kitchen Crafty Tools
Double Boiler
Spatula
Icing Piping/Decorating Bag with piping piece of your choice
Parchment Paper
Stick Blender or Hand held blender
Three clean 4 oz jars
Directions
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Measure the Shea Butter, Coconut Oil and Apricot Oil into a double boiler. Gently warm until just melted. Remove from heat and whisk in arrowroot powder
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Place the bowl in the refrigerator until it is solid but still a little soft. This takes about 20 to 30 min. Once it is solid, remove it from the refrigerator. If it's too solid, let it warm up a little before mixing.
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Whip the body butter oil mixture until it is smooth, add in the Rose Geranium and Frankincense essential oils and whip some more until well blended. It will change consistency and become light and fluffy as it gets whipped.
Second step-Dividing and Adding in the Colorful Plant Powders
For this next step, you are going to divide the body butter into thirds and place each third into a separate bowl. To one bowl you will add the rose powder and to the other bowl you will add the butterfly pea powder and the third bowl will remain white.
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Add 1tbs rose powder to one third of body butter and mix in powder until well combined.
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Add 1 tsp of butterfly pea powder to the other bowl of body butter and mix until well combined.
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Leave the third bowl of body butter just like it is.
Third Step; Creating the Swirl
Cut a piece of parchment paper (or saran wrap) that is a little longer than your piping bag. Scoop one of the body butter portions onto the paper lengthwise. Then scoop the next portion along side the first portion, then scoop the third portion alongside the second portion, so that they are lined up together.
1. Place a piece of parchment paper down. Starting at one end, scoop the rose body butter out into a long line, about an inch wide. Then scoop the uncolored body butter alongside it. Next scoop the butterfly pea colored body butter alongside the uncolored body butter.
2. Roll the parchment paper into a tube shape, keep it tight without squeezing it and twist the ends of the tube closed. Snip one end to create an opening and slide this end it into the piping bag that already has the piping attachment inside of it, ready to go.
Then fill the jars using a circular motion to go around the inside of the jar. About halfway through you will want to fill the center of the jar. Then continue on in a circular motion until your jar is filled.
This recipe makes about three 4oz jars. It also looks really pretty in large 6 ounce tins.
Happy crafting,
Janet
