One of the things that you learn when formulating your own diy skincare products is that sometimes your product does not turn out as planned.
I attempted to make an anhydrous (without water) body butter for dry and mature skin. I wanted to use kokum butter in the formulation because kokum butter provides deep hydration and nourishment helping to soften and restore elasticity in mature skin.
Although body butters are nourishing it can feel greasy on the skin. I added arrowroot powder to reduce the greasy oily feeling that you get with anhydrous body butters.
Body butters tend to have a large percentage of butter in the formulation depending on the consistency that you are looking for. I’ve used kokum butter in my massage bars and foot balm formulations. But this is the first time that I’ve used the butter in a body butter formulation. And it is also my first time using arrowroot powder.
Well, the body butter did not come out as expected. After whipping it, the butter began to thicken. By the time I started to poured the rest of the batter in another jar another transformation was taking place. The body butter started to harden. Instead of it being creamy it became thick with a crumbly texture. I don’t know if I used too much arrowroot powder at 2% because too much oil was absorbed. Or could it be that because kokum butter is a thick butter, I should have used less than 75% and increased the oil to 40%?
The ingredients used were kokum butter, rosehip seed oil, lavender essential oil, vitamin e, and arrowroot powder.
I will work on changing the formulation because my guess is that since arrowroot powder is used to take away the greasy oily feeling it must be the culprit. I now know what doesn’t work. To use the experimental learning phrase, “You learn by doing.”
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