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Make Your Own Cinnamon Clove Hard Butter Hand Cream

2/19/2019

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Make your own cinnamon and clove essential oil hand butter to heal and protect your hands.
Sultry warmth envelopes your senses with the rich fragrance of cinnamon, cloves, coconut & honey every time you use my butter! Reminiscent of the Winter Holidays. A friend of mine exclaimed with delight, "It smells like Christmas!"

Due to the organic all natural ingredients, this cream is solid in cool temperatures. To soften it, you simply leave it in a warm location (slip it into a roomy pocket for example). If it's hard you can use the back of your thumb nail to scrape it out. You then massage it into your hands.  The warmth of your hands will start to melt the butter into your skin giving your skin healing protection that is well worth the effort!

Note that my hard butter doesn't require any preservatives as it is free from water or any watery types of ingredients. It is nothing but fats and waxes. It naturally preserves itself!

Before you get started:

I want to stress to you that for the most part, these are guidelines. I have provided links for products & supplies I feel you may find useful. After all, it's the stuff I have either used, or am currently using. In the end, use what works for you. I want you to be comfortable with the whole process. This isn't a chore, or a stress, it's a simple relaxing way to make your own hand cream free from synthetics - at a fraction of the cost. 

My personal preference for heating the ingredients is to use a paper bowl & a cast iron grill over the stove top or if it's during the winter, I forgo the grill & use a paper bowl on top of my wood stove. I prefer this method for it's easy clean up & the fact that I can toss the used bowl in the burn pile &/or compost pile. It also make a great fire starter. If you do not feel comfortable with my method/s, you can always opt. for a small crock pot, putting the ingredients directly into the pot. If you have a gas stove you may not feel comfortable with an open flame around your oils. This is perfectly understandable. You too, can use a small crock pot directly or make clean up easier by using a larger oval shaped crock pot and paper bowls. Yet another option is to heat the oils directly in a glass canning jar rather than a paper bowl. 

Clean up is a bit more difficult if you directly heat your oils & waxes in a glass jar or crock pot, but it can be done. Once you have finished, use plenty of straight soap no water. This is the same method I use to clean up after soap making. Water will only make the cleaning process more difficult. Once the vessel is sufficiently cleaned, you can then rinse it with hot water. If after rinsing, it still has residue, clean it again with plenty of straight soap no water. Repeat this process until it's clean.

There are no hard fast rules, except to please use common sense. Remember you are dealing with oils which are highly flammable. If for whatever reason, you do have a kitchen fire, do not use water! You can quickly toss baking soda on the flames, or quickly smother it with towels, or the best option (although very messy), use a fire extinguisher. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a messy kitchen then burn it to the ground!

Ready? Lets begin!


Cinnamon Clove Hard Butter

Ingredients:
  • 2 Ounces Organic Shea Butter is made from the nut of the African Shea Tree. It contains a rich amount of unremovable fatty acid. This fatty acid is crucial to rejuvenating & moisturizing the skin. Shea Butter provides all the essential vitamins needed to make skin look & feel smoother, softer & most importantly, healthier. Its therapeutic properties protect the skin from wind, cold, sun & it helps heal wounds faster. Shea Butter fights the effects of aging & repairs rough, damaged skin.
  • 2 Ounces Organic Beeswax is an all natural anti-inflammatory, anti-allergenic & antibacterial skin softener that helps lock in the skin's own natural moisture, & creates a protective, long-lasting barrier against the elements.
  • 2 Ounces Organic Coconut Oil softens, moisturizes and relieves dry, itchy skin.
  • 25 drops Organic Cinnamon Essential Oil is warming, has antiseptic & antibacterial properties.
  • 25 drops Organic Clove Bud Essential Oil is antimicrobial, antifungal, antiseptic, antiviral, stimulating & an aphrodisiac.

Supplies:

Scale and Adapter (optional)
Paper Bowls
Large Stainless Steel Pot or Cast Iron Pan (better)
Glass Jars


Directions:
  1. If you are using a large shallow stainless steel pot or large deep stainless steel pan, you will need to fill it half way with hot water. Put it on the stove on the lowest heat setting. If you are using a cast iron grilling pan (my preferred method), put the pan on your stove using the lowest heat setting.
  1. Measure out your ingredients using your scale. Put your paper bowl on the scale first.  Then hit the tare button to zero out the scale. Next add two ounces of shea butter.  You can then hit tare again to zero out the scale or add two ounces of beeswax next making the scale total four ounces. Again, you can either hit tare a third time to zero it out or add two ounces of coconut oil (if in liquid state, pour very slowly) making the scale total six ounces.
  2. Carefully place your paper bowl containing all three ingredients either floating in your pot of hot (not boiling) water or on your cast iron grilling pan (my preferred method).
  3. Keeping the stove heat on the lowest setting, allow the beeswax and butter to slowly melt.  Do not leave the mix unattended.  This is a good time to prep your jars so they are ready to receive the melted product.
  4. Once everything is fully melted and incorporated, turn off the stove heat. Add the essential oils. Carefully lift up the bowl, bend one side of the lip to form a little crease that will act as your pour spout. Pour the hot liquid into your jar/s of choice.
  5. Let the jars sit until fully cooled and hardened. Place the lid on the jars. Label the jars.

Enjoy!

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