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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.
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