Friday 22 August 2014

SHEA BUTTER AVAILABLE AGAIN


Fresh batch of  SHEA BUTTER


 

…..and how to make it:

Ingredients:  Shea Butter, olive oil and a few drops of essential oil. The latter is not vital but the shea butter has a natural nutty smell. Which not everybody likes, the same goes for olive oil.

One has to use a water bath to smelt the shea butter and the olive oil (or other favourite plant oil) together in a water bath (bain marie) until they are well “married” and +- 70 degree Celsius. The mixture will then be clear and look like oil, nice and rich amber, happily united as an emulsion.



Then you take the mixture out of the water bath and start stirring it really well, stir, stir, stir until it is cooler and starting to turn thicker and lighter. This is the time when the essential oil –drop by drop- can be added, not before, as the higher temperature will let it evaporate. Essential oil is strong and 8 drops per 500 ml is enough. If you feel like adding more, do not be tempted, it will burn your skin.

When the mixture thickens a little more you can start pouring it into your jar(s). It will then settle down in the pot and turn a very light, lovely shadow of shea butter and olive oil ( surprise ) yellow and smell like a Tuscan citrus plantatation.

On the 16th of May 2013 I posted a detailed report about the magical workings of shea butter cream on skin and hair.

If you’d like to find out more, please kindly look up that post on the side bar.

 


…..and finished:

 


 

 

And other very good news is that spring has sprung in

South Africa.

I picked the above just now for all my friends to see and enjoy the daisies, honeysuckle, jasmine, wild peach and little lion’s mouth.

 



Greetings and joy and peace from Barbara

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