Massage melts are a unique body product because they stay solid at room temperatures, but when functional directly to your skin, start to soften and melt due to body temperature. Their worthy purpose is to moisturize dry skin, because well because, relax and soothe tight muscles.

Truly, massage bars are composed of usual butters and oils. Most recipes for this multiplicity of product call for the handling of cocoa butter. Even though it has fantastic moisturizing properties, I feel this butter produces too difficult a product. Therefore, I recommend using such butters since shea and mango, which create a silkier, luxurious feeling to your melts.

For oils, I highly recommend with sweet almond and jojoba. Sweet almond oil is light and penetrates easily making it well-suited for dry skin conditions. Plus, it is effective on each skin types. Jojoba oil, which is not essentially an oil but is a liquid wax, is similar in composition to the oil your skin secretes, which is known as sebum. Jojoba is a quickly absorbed oil that soothes the skin, as well since, extends the shelf life of other oils.

Other “light” oils you can substitute, for the on top of, are apricot kernel, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, or soybean. Rounding out the rest of the ingredients are beeswax, vitamin E, and valuable and fragrance oils.

Beeswax helps formulations keep their shape, because well since, act because a humectant. Vitamin E oil protects your product from rancidity and is also a good natural antioxidant. Important oils are usual ingredients that are the very essence of the plant itself. Extracted from the flowers, fruit, leaves, bark, and roots of the plant, the oils are used for scent and therapeutic purposes. A word of caution, due to their volatility, research any principal oil before usage. Fragrance oils, though synthetic inside nature, do provide an inexpensive and easy way to achieve a scent that possibly will not be possible with main oils.

Ingredients:
3 ½ oz. of shea butter
3 ½ oz. of beeswax
2 oz. of jojoba oil
2 oz. of sweet almond oil
¼ tsp. of Vitamin E

Equipment:
Mold(s) of your choice
1 digital cooking thermometer
2 Pyrex glass measuring cups
1 small digital postal scale
1 set of measuring aluminum spoons
Wax paper for measuring on the scale
Plastic wrap to cover Pyrex cups

Directions:
Step 1: Gather all tools onto a clean, sterile surface. Place a sheet of wax paper on top of the tiny digital postal scale to measure out the shea butter and beeswax base. Place base inside a Pyrex cup and cover up with plastic wrap. Melt ingredients, wholly, inside the microwave.

Step 2: Even as the base is melting, exercise the second Pyrex cup for your jojoba, sweet almond, vitamin E, and essential/fragrance oils (if used). Mix, cover up with plastic wrap, and set aside.

Step 3: Once the base has melted, mix thoroughly. Pour the Pyrex cup from step 2 into the base Pyrex cup, mix both, and pour into your mold(s). Set aside for a couple of hours to fantastic and set. When soft, transfer the melts to the fridge until they are truly not easy. They must only pop out of the molds easily. Massage into skin and agree to product become absorbed. Due to melting properties, keep unused portions out of direct sunlight and store in a good place.

Note: If you plan on with principal and/or fragrance oils inside your recipe, place a digital thermometer inside the melted shea butter and beeswax base. Expect the temperature to drop down to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything higher will burn off the fragrant oils. After the temperature has reached this point immediately dump your Pyrex cup from step 2 into the Pyrex cup with the base, mix fast, and pour into your mold(s). Follow the rest of step 3 information.

Muscle Relief Significant Oil Blend
½ tsp. of Eucalyptus
½ tsp. of Peppermint (do not practice if pregnant)
30 drops of Rosemary

Tropical Fragrance Oil Blend (Substitute shea butter using mango butter)
½ tsp of Heliotrope fragrance oil
¼ tsp of Coconut Milk fragrance oil
30-50 drops of Tahitian Vanilla fragrance oil

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