ALCHEMISTRY WHIPPED SHEA BUTTER SKIN

ALCHEMISTRY WHIPPED SHEA BUTTER SKIN

Unless of course your body butter melts to a liquid due to hot weather, then the whipped effect will be gone – welcome to the world of truly natural skin care. If you do this right, the air bubbles you introduce in the body butter while whipping will stay, resulting in a stable fluffy structure.

Here is how you melt and whip shea to perfection. Fast forward to a gazillion experiments later, I have come up with the right sequence that gives a whipped butter that stays whipped. How do you melt & whip shea butter correctly?Īfter making my debut shea video, I noticed that the method above gave it a nice airy texture at first, but after a few days the whipped shea butter would harden up as much as the regular, un-whipped shea. And that’s when I realized that, besides needing a dedicated room with a stove and fridge for my whipped skin care concoctions, I should probably consider not melting the shea butter and just whipping it like you whip – guess what? – edible butter. However, when you start melting 5-10 pounds of shea butter, plus other ingredients, it starts to get overwhelming: your double boiler system takes a long time to slowly melt the butter, removing it from the heat without spilling anything is nerve wracking, and finding room in your fridge is the next challenge (by the way, make sure you cover your container of melted shea when you place it in the fridge or it will pick up some of the smells from other items stored). The problem after a few years of doing it this way has been time and space: if you have a small batch of about 1-2 lbs of product, following this method of melting, cooling, whipping takes a couple of hours and results in a beautiful creation.

Alchemistry whipped shea butter