Back to basics: Whipped butters (updated)

Whipped butters are so impressive but so darned easy to make! They might seem all complicated with their whippiness, but they’re simple to make if you have a mixer with a whisk attachment. (I bought my Black & Decker 250 watt mixer for $20 from Canadian Tire with two whisk attachments! I’m sure you could...

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Whipped babassu, sal, and hemp seed oil butter!

I’m declaring April the month to try something different (at least for me, but you’re welcome to play along). I made a lotion yesterday with all kinds of ingredients I’ve never used before, and today I thought I’d make a new whipped butter. (If you want to know more about babassu oil, click here!) WHIPPED...

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E-mail question: Hydrogenated vegetable oil

More Cowbell poses this question…What timing! I was just looking at this on another site and wondering what the “hydrogenated vegetable oil” is. Do you know? Are we talking Crisco??? 🙂 It seems to also have sweet almond oil, so what hydrogenated oil is so firm that it can incorporate that and still qualify as...

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A few other butters…

Since I’ve decided to try different things in my creations this year, let’s take a look at a few other butters. In the food and cosmetic industry, six butters are considered substitutes for cocoa butter – palm, illipe, kokum, sal, shea, and mango – but they do offer different qualities and fatty acid profiles for...

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Body lotion becomes foot lotion

My best friend shows off her exciting foot operation. When the bandages came off, we realized she needed something pretty intense for her feet! We saw the differences between a hand lotion and body lotion, now let’s make a foot lotion! We’ll base it on the body lotion from the other day. We can keep...

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