Cocoa Butter Massage Bars

The Basic Recipe for these bars is:

• One part beeswax
• One part butter - cocoa, shea or other nut butter
• One part oil - any oil soft at room temperature

The goal in creating the recipe is to have a bar that melts at skin temperature. The beeswax melts at about 160 degrees, the cocoa butter at about 120, and the oils are soft at room temperature...so the combination will create your bar. The butter you use will also determine any adjustments to the ratio. That is...cocoa butter has a higher melting point than shea butter - so if you make these bars with shea, you will need to decrease the amount of liquid oil.

For these bars, I used:

• 4 ounces of Natural Yellow Beeswax
• 4 ounces of Natural Cocoa Butter
• 4 ounces of Fractionated Coconut Oil (a very absorbable oil - great for skin applications!)
• 1 ounce (total) of Lavender, Eucalyptus and Patchouli essential oils - or whatever fragrance or essential oil you want.

Note: You may want to try this with no fragrance - just with the natural beeswax and natural cocoa butter - the honey scent from the wax and the chocolate scent from the cocoa butter are heavenly in a subtle way.