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    Body Melt or Lotion Bar

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    Lotion bars, also called body or facial melts, are easy to make natural cosmetic products that do not require water or preservatives. To make a body melt, one needs to balance solid and liquid ingredients, essential oils, and additives in a mold. Key considerations for the formulation include maintaining stability, consistency, and a smooth application. A basic recipe is provided using cocoa butter, cupuacu butter, babassu oil, and other ingredients that is poured into molds and chilled overnight before use.

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    Body Melt or Lotion Bar

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    Lotion bars, also called body or facial melts, are easy to make natural cosmetic products that do not require water or preservatives. To make a body melt, one needs to balance solid and liquid ingredients, essential oils, and additives in a mold. Key considerations for the formulation include maintaining stability, consistency, and a smooth application. A basic recipe is provided using cocoa butter, cupuacu butter, babassu oil, and other ingredients that is poured into molds and chilled overnight before use.

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    Lotion bars, also called body or facial melts, are easy to make natural cosmetic products that do not require water or preservatives. To make a body melt, one needs to balance solid and liquid ingredients, essential oils, and additives in a mold. Key considerations for the formulation include maintaining stability, consistency, and a smooth application. A basic recipe is provided using cocoa butter, cupuacu butter, babassu oil, and other ingredients that is poured into molds and chilled overnight before use.

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    Body Melt or Lotion Bar

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    Gabriela Oliveira
    Lotion bars, also called body or facial melts, are easy to make natural cosmetic products that do not require water or preservatives. To make a body melt, one needs to balance solid and liquid ingredients, essential oils, and additives in a mold. Key considerations for the formulation include maintaining stability, consistency, and a smooth application. A basic recipe is provided using cocoa butter, cupuacu butter, babassu oil, and other ingredients that is poured into molds and chilled overnight before use.

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    How to make a Body Melt or Lotion Bar

    How to make a Body Melt


    Lotion bars, also called facialor bodymelts are among the most promising products
    in natural and organic cosmetics. They are easy to make, easy to test and easy to
    handle. Free from water and thereforeno need to add any preservative, they allow
    you to use creative but environmental friendly and packaging that avoidsplastics.
    The only limitation when making facialor bodymelts might be your imagination as
    the sky is the limit!
    All you need is the right balance between your solid and liquid ingredients, a nice
    combination of essential oils, additives such as anti-oxidants, skin feel enhancers
    and a mould. If you have a soap making background and have lotsof soap moulds in
    your stash, then you can use any of them. If you do not have any soap moulds, dont
    worry, you can use cookie moulds or ice cube moulds or even up-cycle a small
    tetrapack carton for your first trials. Im sure after youre familiar with the technique
    and have achieved a formulation that you love, youll become obsessed with facial/
    body melts and willequip your lab with a bunch of beautiful moulds.
    You can prepare these melts in any size, I personally prefer small sizes for ease of
    handling and a better hygienic performance.
    Body Melt Formulation Advice
    There are absolutely no rules orlimitations (unless the safety requirements of your
    ingredients dictate this obviously, particularly withthe dermal limits of the essential
    oils you apply). For a practical application however you shouldconsider that the
    body melt mustkeep its form and consistency during storage and as you keep it in
    your hand during the short application time. It would be very unpleasantwhen the
    bodymelt really melts in your hand and drips as soon as it comes into contact with
    your skin temperature.
    On the other hand however, you cannot apply high melting point butters and waxes.
    This is not going to be a massage candle and mustglide smoothly over your skin
    and melt over your skin by applying very light pressure.
    These are the key points when formulatingfacial and body melts:
    Keep the essential keep it simple silly (KISS)principle in mind and start as
    simple as possible.
    Test the stability and performance of your product to check that it works well for
    your climate.
    After youre happy with the consistency, stability and performance, you can build
    the formulation upwards and layer by layer.
    How to make my Sunshine Amazonian Body Melts
    Ive decided to use one of my colourful oils for this challenge. The beautiful Buriti oil
    imparts anice and cheerful orange colour to the product. You can use other colourful
    oils or lipophilic plant extracts.

    To give you a rough approximation of how to proceed, Ill share my very basic
    formulation with you.
    My Ingredients:
    Cocoa butter 60.0%
    Cupuacu butter 19.0%
    Babassu oil 10.0%
    Alpha-Tocopherol 0.5%
    Rosemary CO2 extract 0.1%
    Buriti oil 9.9%
    Mandarin essential oil 0.5%
    Method:
    1. In a water bath, melt the cocoa butter, babassu oil and cupuacu butter. Stir gently
    during melting.
    2. Afterthis blend has melted, stop heating and remove the beaker from the water
    bath. Add tocopherol, rosemary extract and buriti oil and stir gently. As the
    temperature goes down to around 35 C, add the essential oil. Put the beaker in an
    ice/water bath and keep stirring or put it in the fridge but stir it in 10 minutes intervals
    until you reach a trace. Keep in mind that the stirring during the cool down phase
    leads toa nice and smooth melt with a shiny appearance and without any grittiness.
    3. As you reach a trace, pour the blend into your mould and put it into the fridge.
    Let it rest overnight or at least for 12 hours. After 12-24 hours, demould and enjoy
    your creation.
    Storage:
    If youve chosen the right combination, the melts should not be kept in the fridge. I
    keep some in my bathroom almost all year around, in summer and winter (as part of
    my stability tests). As long as they are not directly exposed to sun or any heating
    source, they maintain their form and consistency. (Disclaimer: in Germany, we can
    have 8 degrees Celsius in July as well as in January, but to be quite honest, I dont
    ship any during summer months)
    As you see, I havent applied any waxes in this formulation and Im sure you can
    achieve a reasonable and acceptable consistency without any waxes as well.Now
    its your turn. Looking forward to seeing your amazing creations.
    Want to join in with Formula Botanicas bi-monthly formulation challenge? Become a
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    community of students.

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