How to Make Non-Greasy Whipped Body Butter

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When your skin needs that extra boost of hydration, what product do you turn to? Body butter! Body butter is a powerful moisturizer for the whole body. You can make your own non-greasy whipped body butter. Bonus, it is an easy body butter recipe!

How to Make Body Butter Less Greasy

Is body butter supposed to be greasy? Body butter is notoriously greasy. It is because of all the butter and oils in this skincare product. Adding ingredients like arrowroot powder or cornstarch will make them less greasy. Some non-greasy body butter recipes contain esters or a water phase to make the body butter less greasy. 

Esters are naturally-derived chemicals you can use in body butter instead of oil or butter. Because esters are less greasy and offer moisturizing properties, they, in turn, make your body butters less greasy. 

Arrowroot powder and cornstarch in body butter help the product absorb quickly into the skin.

Adding water to a body butter makes it not a traditional body butter and transitions it into a cream or lotion. This easy body butter recipe does not include water making it a traditional non-greasy body butter.

What Makes a Body Butter Whipped

When whipping body butter, the key principles are temperature and time.

If you want to whip body butter, you will need to place the mixture in the refrigerator or freezer. Once it is almost hard, you will use a stand mixer with a whisk, handheld beater, or immersion blender with a whisk end. You will have to whip the ingredients together.

How long does it take to whip body butter? On average it takes 10 minutes to whip body butter. You will want to keep an eye on the body butter while it is whipping. Your body butter is whipped once it starts to form peaks and has a light feel.

Ingredients in Non-Greasy Whipped Body Butter

Each ingredient in this easy body butter recipe adds different benefits to your skin. Understanding each ingredient helps you know the benefits they offer the skin.

Mango Butter

When looking for butter to apply to your body, you want to find one that is non-comedogenic. This means that it will not clog your pores. Mango and shea butter are both non-comedogenic.

Mango butter contains three vitamins: A, C, and E. Each vitamin performs a different task for your skin.

• Vitamin A: Reduces the look of fine lines and wrinkles. It makes the skin appear firm.
• Vitamin C: Helps with collagen production. It also reduces the hyperpigmentation and dark spots of the skin.
• Vitamin E: Aides in soothing sensitive and irritating skin. The irritated skin conditions it soothes are sunburn, windburn, and dry skin.

Mango butter is also rich in oleic and stearic acids, and it contains antioxidants to reduce free radical damage.

What substitutions can you do for mango butter? You can use cocoa butter as a substitution. Cocoa butter is comedogenic and has a high probability of clogging your pores. You can also do all shea butter in the recipe.

Shea Butter

Shea butter is a popular butter used in most skincare products. It is non-comedogenic, like mango butter.

The vitamins that shea butter contains are A, E, and F.

• Vitamin A: Reduces the look of fine lines and wrinkles. It makes the skin appear firm.
• Vitamin E: Aides in soothing sensitive and irritating skin. The irritated skin conditions it soothes are sunburn, windburn, and dry skin.
• Vitamin F: Contains moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties for the skin.

Shea butter is also rich in fatty acids.

What is a substitute you can do for shea butter? Cocoa butter is a substitute you can use if you have no objections to using comedogenic butter. You can do all the mango butter in this non-greasy whipped body butter recipe.

Cetyl Alcohol

When looking at an ingredients label for skincare, seeing anything with alcohol or a word that ends in ‘-ol’ makes some people stop and wonder if this skincare product is healthy for their skin. 

Most alcohols are drying to the skin, but fatty alcohols are hydrating and act as an emollient. Cetyl alcohol is a fatty alcohol that is safe for the skin. 

A substitute for cetyl alcohol is cetearyl alcohol. Cetearyl alcohol is another fatty alcohol that you can use in skincare products.

Jojoba Oil

Jojoba oil is one of the closest oils that resembles the skin’s sebum. It is technically not an oil but a liquid wax. 

Jojoba oil is very hydrating and quickly absorbs into the skin. The fast absorption helps this body butter recipe not be super greasy. 

Another benefit of jojoba oil is it fights fungi and infections. A study found that jojoba oil contains anti-inflammatory properties that help the skin.

You can use a large variety of oils as substitutes for jojoba oil. When looking for an oil substitute, look at what benefits they offer the skin. You also want to find an oil that is non-comedogenic because you do not want to have clogged pores on different areas of your body.

Almond Oil

Rich in vitamins A, D, K, and E, almond oil is the next ingredient in this non-greasy whipped body butter. 

• Vitamin A: Reduces the look of fine lines and wrinkles. It makes the skin appear firm.
• Vitamin D: Contributes to skin cell regeneration, growth, and repair. It also reduces premature aging in the skin.
• Vitamin E: Aides in soothing sensitive and irritating skin. The irritated skin conditions it soothes are sunburn, windburn, and dry skin.
• Vitamin K: Helps with discoloration in the skin, such as under the eyes. Also improves the skin’s elasticity.

Almond oil is known for reducing scarring and wrinkles on the skin.

As mentioned before, you can use most oils as a substitute for an oil ingredient, but do not use comedogenic oils. Some people love to use coconut oil in skincare products. Coconut oil offers some amazing benefits to the skin, but it is comedogenic and could clog your pores.

Arrowroot Powder

Arrowroot powder is the secret ingredient that makes this whipped body butter recipe non-greasy. This ingredient will help the two kinds of butter and the oils absorb quickly into the skin.

A substitute that you can use for arrowroot powder is cornstarch. Some DIY body butter creators will use cornstarch in their recipes because they enjoy this ingredient more. 

Vitamin E Oil

Vitamin E oil acts as an antioxidant for oil-based skincare products. This means it prevents the oxidation of oils.

Another benefit of vitamin E oil is that it helps moisturize and prevent dry skin. 

Optiphen

Some people hate having preservatives in their skincare products. With body butter, you can opt out of using a preservative as long as you never have it go near water. 

Because this non-greasy whipped body butter does not contain a water phase, it does not need to contain a preservative. Again I repeat, if your body butter does not contain a preservative, do not let water come in contact with it.

This non-greasy body butter recipe does contain a preservative because we do not want to take any chances of mold or bacteria growth. Some people apply body butter after taking a shower. This means there is a possibility of water being introduced into the body butter.

Optiphen is a preservative that you can use in oil-based products. It is a broad-spectrum preservative that fights bacteria, yeast, and mold. 

Optiphen is paraben and formaldehyde-free, making it a clean ingredient for oil-based products.

Essential Oil

Using a skincare product containing a delightful smell makes it all the more wonderful to use. This easy body butter recipe uses grapefruit essential oil. 

You can use any essential oil you enjoy.

Calculating a Formulation from Percentages to Grams

This non-greasy whipped body butter recipe is written in percentages so you can convert it into big or small batches. 

When you calculate this easy body butter recipe into a weighed-out amount, formulate it into grams and not ounces. Converting a clean skincare recipe in grams instead of ounces makes it a more precise measurement.

Tools to Make Non-Greasy Whipped Body Butter

Having the right equipment to make this non-greasy whipped body butter will make the process easy and quick.