Whipped body butter and my recipe

A couple years ago I made whipped body butter.  I tested a recipe or two.  My first recipe melted at room temperature during the summer months.  The last one didn't.  I wondered how people would ship this body butter around the USA and it stay looking like it did when it was placed into a container.  I asked a couple of people and they stated it will stir right back up when it is cool.  To me that defeats the purpose of whipped butter.  I like it light and airy.  I don't make this butter to ship anywhere; however I will give it to friends and family.  Why do I like whipped body butter?  My skin is dry.  I like this to use just like a lotion.  Do you have dry heels?  Elbows?  Hands?  Lotion usually soaks in and leaves my skin is dry.  Lotion has oils and butters in it, but it also has a liquid, such as water.  With whipped butters, there is no added liquid.  My recipe is below.    



Whipped Body Butter by Dawn Jones
Heat sunflower oil and coconut oil in a microwave or in a double boiler.  Pour this heated liquid over the butters. It should help melt the butters, but cocoa butter is quite hard and you may need to continue slowly melting this mixture.  Once it has liquefied, place it into a bowl which is usable with a hand or electric mixer.  I have an electric mixer dedicated to soaping. Since the butters are organic and unrefined, I had to filter the mixture twice.  Organic and unrefined butters are not necessary for use in this whip.  You can use non-organic and refined butters.  There will be a different smell in the mixture since unrefined coconut oil smells of cocoa.  Cool the mixture in the refrigerator to where the oils and butters start to harden on the outside of the bowl.

This is what nut meats or skins were strained out in the butters.

Oils hardened around the outside edge of the bowl.

When this happens, scrape the edges and start mixing with your mixer.  If the mixture does not whip after mixing on high for a few minutes, place it back in the refrigerator to cool more.  Mix/whip this mixture until it looks like soft ice cream, but with more air pockets.  Add the tapioca flour, the mica, and the fragrance while continuing to mix/whip.  Mix/whip until this heavenly mixture is completely blended and place it into jars or containers.  Tap the bottom of the jar or container on a cloth at your table or counter area.  You want to remove excess air, but not break the jar/or container.  Add more mixture if you are able to fit more into the jar or container.   If you have looked at Etsy adds, you will notice the contents are piped into the container and an extra cup of mixture is placed on the top for photographic effects.  You should get at least 9 cups of whipped butter.  If there is not enough whip or fluff in your mixture, put it back in the refrigerator for a little while. Scrape the edges when you remove it from the frig, and whip on high speed for a little longer.

10 ounces organic unrefined shea butter 
10 ounces organic unrefined cocoa butter
6 ounces sunflower oil
6 ounces coconut oil
2 teaspoons tapioca flour
2 teaspoons colloidal oatmeal 
2 teaspoons mica (Stellar White and White Russian sparkle mix)
1 teaspoon of fragrance oil or essential oil.  You may want to start with a couple of drops and fragrance as you strong as you like your lotion.  (Reminder from an asthmatic:  People do not want to smell your lotion before you get into the room.)
Mica---optional  I have used Stellar White and White Russian sparkle mix, yellow, or pink.   

Whipped Butter.

Vintage rickrack, paper roses, strips of rose sparkle fabric, and a vintage button cover adorn these jars/containers.  The two jars on the left are new jars from Ball.  I think they call them friendship jars.

A SOAP WITH NO NAME

I made a new soap this weekend.  I have enjoyed the teal green color lately, so I had to add 2 of those colors and some soap shred which is blue-green in color.  On the top I added a little oatmeal for decoration.

I also added a secret ingredient.  Can you name it?  Here is the hint:

The fragrance will probably make the soap a little darker after it cures.

The soap lightened after it was cut.  The one on the right was cut first.

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FOX NEWS FEATURE ABOUT SOAP:
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Do you give up yet???  Well here it is:

I have been making soap since the 1980's.  I haven't used colloidal oatmeal until now?  I hope it is a great addition to my soap.  I also used tallow, raw cow milk, coconut oil, sodium hydroxide, sunflower oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, glycerin, fragrance, soap shreds, titanium dioxide, coloring, and oatmeal.

So far, the soap has no name, but it has great texture!

The fragrance I used was oatmeal, milk, and honey.  The soap shreds contained another fragrance and the fragrances blended a little.  It still has a great smell.  

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I hope you had a good weekend!  Thank you for reading my blog!  Dawnie

Titanic Soap or Vanolia soap and Recipe

I have researched Titanic soap.  This soap was advertised to be a cold cream soap named Vanolia.  It was a  nice sized oval bar wrapped and placed into a decorated box of purple and gold.  Vanolia was also advertised at the soap for the first-class cabins on the Titanic.  It was made originally in England.  Even though the soap is still made since 1912, it has gone through a few changes.  One  change is the fragrance which is more of a spice fragrance now where it originally was a rose fragrance.  Many soap makers of today are adding rose and lemon  together trying to duplicate this soap fragrance.  I found the original (or close to original) ingredient labels which shows the following ingredients.  I broke the ingredients down for easier reading and understanding.  (Keep in mind that I am bot a chemist.):
1.sodium tallowate--tallow or rendered cow fat
2.sodium cocolate--coconut oil--it is one of the few oils that will suds in salt water
3.aqua--water
4.glycerol--glycerin--automatically made during the manufacture of true soap.  Glycerin attracts moisture through the air.
5.perfume--a fragrance, rose otto--1/8 of an ounce is $29.99 on Amazon. Most of us can not afford this essential oil.

6.sodium chloride--salt
7.mineral oil--a byproduct of petroleum and commonly used to remove make up
8.tetra-sodium EDTA--it is a cleating agent that neutralizes the metal ions in hard water and makes  water softer
9.edidrontic acid--also a cleating agent which enhances the cleaning power
10. boric acid--a mild antiseptic/anti-fungal/antibiotic  "Borax, also known as borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid,"  Wikipedia
Much of my information came from Encyclopedia Titicaca. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/forums/personal-hygiene/4975-soap.html

To duplicate this soap, I would start with tallow, coconut oil, water, lye (sodium hydroxide), and rose fragrance.  If the soap could turn dark due to the fragrance I use, I would then use a little titanium dioxide to help keep the soap white.  Many of the soap makers of today are placing a rose bud on the top of each bar of soap, making each bar truly upper class..

My version of this soap is:

Titanic soap

30 ounces tallow

20 ounces coconut oil

19 ounces water

7.3 ounces lye

3 ounces veg glycerin

1.5 ounces Save on Scents eternal roses fragrance oil  

2 tablespoons titanium dioxide

Optional:  18 decorations for the top such as dried rose buds or tiny pink rose erasers like mine.

Follow normal soap making rules to make this soap using the above recipe.

Yield:  Makes 18 bars of soap.  I used Crafter's Choice oval molds.  Oval which was the shape of the original Titanic soap.

Notes:   *I refrigerated this soap for one day.  It did not gel and it came out of the molds perfectly.

*This soap is snow white!  The titanium dioxide was probably not needed with this fragrance oil.

Vanolia/Titanic Soap  I used little erasers for the center rose.  Not as nostalgic as a dried rose bud.
A friend told me that it would erase the wrinkles away.  LOL

I hope you found this an interesting read.  Have a great week!  Dawnie

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Whipped Pina Colada Body Butter

I finally took the plunge and made whipped body butter.  It only has a few ingredients, but it is heavenly.  I am planning on making a few more and testing the recipes.  This recipe calls for: cocoanut oil, shea butter, rice bran oil, vitamin E, Pina Colada fragrance oil, yellow mica, and cosmetic grade glitter.  

In the winter my skin is so dry.  I think the butter comes on a bit oily, even though my skin soaks it up.  In the next batch I want to try and tweak the oily look.

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Have a great day!  Dawn

Face Soap

I made a sizable batch of soap yesterday.  I used new silicone molds.  The molds went wonky and made odd shaped bars of soap.  I re-batched most of the soap and I can now clean it up and package it.  It is made with wheat grass, raw cow milk, shea butter, cocoa butter, coconut oil, peppermint infused grapeseed oil, Himalayan pink bath salt, olive oil, titanium dioxide to keep the soap from going brown, soap shreds from another batch of soap, fragrance oil, palm oil, and coloring (these items are not in the proper order). I know I have left out something.  As you can see from my funny photo, I did not get the bath salts mixed well enough.

face???alien???green Martian???

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 Have a great day!  Dawnie

Baby Soap Dilemma

I have a dilemma on how to present the baby soap I make.  I finally made soap without fragrance, coloring, or any additives.  All that is in my soap is coconut oil, goat milk, lye, sunflower oil, water, shea butter, coco butter.   Over 5% coco butter and over 6% shea butter are in the soap.  The lye dissipates when the suponification of the oils, water, and lye takes place.  This is a very gentle soap and it is great for anyone to use, not just babies.  I made it in a round mold. 

 NOTE: It took a lot of control for me not to put glitter on it.  LOL  

Back to the dilemma, how do I wrap the soap?  I wanted something a little different.  Pink would be OK.  I know all babies are not girls, but the mama's are.  I thought about cupcake wrappers, paper doilies, fabric, fabric yo-yo, wedding netting for rice, etc.  I usually use a pink organza bag for my others soaps and it is see through.  Most of my soaps have color, design, and/or glitter in or on them.  It is more important to see through and the bags and be able to smell the soap.  These baby bars are plain, so there really is not a need to see them.  I would hate for them to be dirty when given as a gift, so I do not want to leave them bare.

What are your thoughts on my little dilemma?  I usually get so carried away with the little things that I miss a lot of the bigger things in life.  However, you know as a potential purchaser of my soap, I spend much time trying to get the ingredients, and presentation right for you.  Thank you for any and all comments.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!  Blessings!  Dawnie

 

This is the plain bar of round baby soap.

Different options I tried.

These two are with pink and blue cupcake wrappers and round rice/wedding netting.

This is the way the back looks with gingham cupcake liners and netting.  I only used a round sticker, but I usually use a label with the ingredients listed.

This sample has a yo-yo formed over it, a red rose plastic button for the center, and a pink Custer Cottage ribbon hanging from the center.  My favorite, but this fabric is impossible to find.  I would probably use a variety of fabric and buttons, so it would match any gifts, decor, and work for boys or girls.

I tried fabric and a sticker, but the sticker does not stick.  Usually one glue dot would not be large enough and would the labels get stuck together in a shop?  I have seen people use glue and glue the fabric to soap.  This makes me wonder what is in the glue and would it contaminate my soap?

I tried paper and that will work, but I may need a little less stiff paper than the regular paper.  The yo-yo sample on the right is much prettier don't you think.  I just used my Custer Cottage pink bubble stickers for these samples.