WHIPPED MANGO BODY BUTTER RECIPE

WHIPPED MANGO BODY BUTTER RECIPE

No doubt you’ve used cocoa butter or shea butter at some point, maybe for stretch marks or to relieve super dry skin. They’re both staples in the skin care world.
But there's a new butter that's making a name for itself in the natural skin care world, and we didn't want you to miss out on these benefits.
If you’ve had mango pieces on your salad, a mango smoothie, mango in your stir-fry, or just mango just by itself, you already know how refreshing and luscious it is. But have you tried mango butter, made from the seed of the fruit?

If you have been looking for an awesome Whipped Mango Butter recipe, then this is it. Are you wondering how it look like and what are the benefits for usuing Mango Butter.

Packed with fatty acids and other vitamins, mango butter is great moisture-rich food for your hair. Its benefits include softening the hair and preventing environmental damage. Mango butter is perfect for tresses that need the ultimate moisture and hydration. Plus, it smells like sweet heaven!

Shea Butter is our rock star ingredient when it comes to making skin care at home, and that’s because it is proven to be the richest, “fattest”, most moisturizing and somewhat healing of all cosmetic butters.
But unrefined Shea Butter has one drawback: it has a detectable nutty/smokey scent. Because of the way it is extracted, and because Unrefined Shea is not processed or bleached in any way to remove smells (nor color), it smells “smokey”. Think of when you smoke meat or make barbecue, and it will give you the concept of why Unrefined Shea picks up a smokey/nutty scent.

The best butter substitute to shea is Mango Butter: it is practically unscented, so when you add your essential oils, there isn’t any other scent from your butter affecting the scent of your formulation. With unrefined Shea Butter, some people complain that they add a lot of essential oils to their recipes but this does not “cover” the shea nutty scent. If this sounds like a problem you’ve run into, Mango Butter may be for you.

WHAT IS MANGO BUTTER?
As with most natural fruits, the seed has just as many benefits as the flesh. The mango seed can be formed into a powder, oil, or butter, depending on how it’s processed. Typically, the butter is cold-pressed from the seeds, and is said to be similar to cocoa and shea butters, in that it’s moisturizing without being greasy.

The mango itself comes from a tropical fruit tree (the Mangifera) native to South Asia, though the trees are cultivated in a number of locations now for their fruits, including India, China, Brazil, and Mexico. They grow up to be 130 feet tall with evergreen leaves and small white flowers. The fruit ripens in the summertime, and is usually a variety of yellow-orange color with a single flat pit that houses a single seed.

SOME BENEFITS
• Plumps the skin: Because it’s rich in vitamin C, mango butter can help encourage a plumper and tighter look. It also promotes a firmer appearance on skin.
• Natural source of vitamin A: Vitamin A is one of the natural ingredients that encourages a revitalized, glowing look. Since mango butter is a natural source of vitamin A, it helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and increasing skin’s overall youthful look.

• Treats dry skin: Dry patches, flakiness, and even sensitive skin can benefit from daily application of mango butter, which goes to work deeply moisturizing. Oh, and don’t forget your lips—mango butter works great as a lip balm.
• Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles: Mango butter provides a more lasting type of miniaturization, which can help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles down the line.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT MANGO BUTTER
If you’ve had the mango fruit before, you know that when you are done eating it, you are left with a large, oval, flat seed, whitish in color.
When you break that hard, large seed (it takes a hammer to break it open) you will find something resembling a big lima bean. That’s where the mango butter comes from, that bean-shaped thing gets mechanically pressed and filtered and smashed until a semi-hard butter is formed.

Our Mango Butter is sourced from gorgeous India, where about 1/2 of the world mango production is done. I think it’s amazing that someone bothered to get down to the contents of the mango seed to find what millions of people in the world today use as one of their cosmetic butter, right?

WHIPPED MANGO BUTTER RECIPE
What’s so special about this recipe? A couple of things:

1. Unlike most other recipes for body butter we have available, for this one you will NOT melt the mango butter.
2. You will only use one carrier oil in addition to the Mango Butter.
   Any variations of these two little tricks and the final consistency won’t be as creamy as in this one. So here it is:

Ingredients:

• 4 oz mango butter
• 2.75 oz jojoba oil
• 60 drops of your favorite essential oil blend

How to:
• Cut the mango butter in small cubed about 1/2 inch size and put them in a bowl
• Using a fork or spoon, smash down the mango butter against the sides of the bowl until you have a uniform paste
• Add the jojoba oil a bit at a time, then stir the mango butter and jojoba oil together
• Using an electric mixer, whip it for 5 minutes or until it has a nice whipped look. Make sure to scrape butter from the sides to add it to the whipping. The bigger the batch you make, this more this step is important as you don’t want to have parts of the butter not fully whipped like the rest.

• as the final step, add your choice of essential oils and give it one more good whip
Your final result will be a creamy and almost liquid, smooth body butter that will hold its consistency for several months.