This delicious smelling white chocolate body frosting is rather divine. Light and easily absorbed into the skin, it smells of vanilla and cocoa, and may leave you wondering if you can lick yourself (I don’t recommend it).
The base of this decadent whipped white chocolate body frosting is a whippy mixture of raw white cocoa butter, coconut oil, and refined shea butter, which come together to create a wonderfully rich and mellow cocoa scent. I’ve gone with refined shea butter to really let the scents of the cocoa and coconut come through while still getting a kick of of shea butter‘s moisturizing goodness.
I’ve spiked the butters with a bit of benzoin essential oil for some added vanilla-y goodness, and I’ve added a touch of silver mica for some snow-drift like shimmer. The shimmer isn’t strong enough to be noticeable on the skin, but I like the sheen it gives the butter in the tin. If you don’t like the idea, feel free to leave it out.
I worked on this formula quite a lot to ensure it didn’t seize up within a few hours of being whipped. It does harden a little with prolonged exposure to air, but it stays soft and light, and melts into the skin beautifully. It also smells downright divine. Did I say that already? 😉
White Chocolate Body Frosting
30g | 1.06oz raw, fragrant cocoa butter
16g |0.56oz refined shea butter
40g | 1.41oz virgin coconut oil5 “blobs“ benzoin essential oil
1/16 tsp silver mica (optional) (I use these tiny measuring spoons for tiny measurements like this)Combine the cocoa butter, refined shea butter, and virgin coconut oil in a double boiler and melt together.
Set the butters aside to solidify. I’d recommend letting this happen over a day or so at room temperature since the butter will live at room temperature anyways (rather than chilling it in the fridge).
Using electric beaters, blend the ever-living daylights out of your buttery mixture, blending in the benzoin and mica as you go. Be sure to use hearing protection—I beat my butter for over ten minutes, and my beaters are loud! No sense damaging your hearing for body butter.
Lightly spoon the light, fluffy butter into two 250mL/8oz tins or jars, taking care not to pack it down and ruin the light, whippy texture.
Enjoy!
This sounds wonderful. I can’t wait to try it. I made one of your body butter on Tuesday and absolutely love it. Thank you so much!!!
Thanks, Susan! Enjoy! 🙂
I love all your recipes!
Thank you and thanks for reading!
Hi! I would love to try this recipe but have a question before I get started. I was initially going to make the citrus body butter which calls for isopropyl myristate. I ordered it as I love the idea of the butter absorbing and not leaving an oily feel on my skin as much. Can that ingredient be incorporated into this recipe also? If so, how much do you recommend using and do I need to adjust anything else?
Thank you for all your fabulous posts and recipes. Your work is amazing!
Hey Claudine! You can generally swap out about 10% of liquid oil for isopropyl myristate (IPM) and that’ll work beautifully—but this formulation doesn’t include any liquid oil. Perhaps try ~3% from each butter? You should also check out my encyclopedia entry on isopropyl myristate (IPM) to learn more 🙂 Happy making!
I like in the uk and temperatures are quite low at the moment , would this not be too hard as the cocoa butter and the coonut oil are solid ?
I’m in snowy Canada and it’s doing pretty well here 🙂 I wouldn’t leave it outside, but it should be fine indoors.
Hi Marie,
You’re weighing the ingredients, is that right? Can you tell me where you get them? Thanks!
I found the link to where you get your products. Is there something else I could use in place of benzoin essential oil? ALso, which particular shea butter do you use. Thanks! Maria
Benzoin is just for the scent, so you could either leave it out or scent it with another essential oil you have on hand!
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Hi Maria! If you have another essential oil that you think smells nice with chocolate that would be a good option 🙂
I used the Ghana refined shea butter from NDA for this recipe. Enjoy!
Thanks Marie!
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Yes, I’m weighing them 🙂 Links to my suppliers are above the comments.
Thanks Marie for the yummy recipe and for the hard work in formulating the perfect result. I really appreciate you and the blog.
Thanks, Danni! Enjoy 🙂
Hello yule gifts for my sister….bwahaha. she’s a lover of whipped butters so this is perfect. I will be her best sister ever. 🙂
Enjoy it! And be sure to save a bit for yourself 😉
Can I drop the benzoin essential oil from the ingredients?Sole reason,don’t have one right now!
You can, but the scent won’t be quite as full and decadent 🙂
Hi. I just made your whipped body frosting. Is great! Two questions though. Mine only fitted into 1 250ml jar. Did I not whip it enough?
Also instead of coconut oil could I use sweet almond oil?
Thanks
Hi Julia! You may not have whipped it enough, or you might have packed it down too much. If you like it, though, no harm done 🙂
You definitely do not want to use anything other than coconut oil in this recipe—the whole point of the coconut oil is its delicious scent! In addition to that, sweet almond oil is a totally different texture. You can read more on carrier oil swaps here 🙂
I just made this and it’s awesome! It goes on like silk and absorbs into my skin quickly. Another great recipe!!! Thank you Marie. 🙂
I’m so thrilled you love it! Thanks for reading and DIYing with me 🙂
So I whipped this up… It never solidified in our kitchen so i put it on the fridge and it’s melting as i whip it… :/ Do you mind my asking about what temp. your house is? Apparently ours at about 73°F (cause my dad is insane) is too warm…
Also, is it really 30/16/40? That just seems like a lot of coconut oil… The recipe I’d used before that worked spectacularly was 30/30/20 (cocoa/shea/coconut)…
I had to let it set for several more hours and go back and whip the daylights out of it again, but I did get that fluffy, frosting texture at last. 😀 I love how light and fluffy this is! And it really does absorb in beautifully. I’m gonna love this for my already dried out knuckles. 🙂
WOO! Yay for body frosting 🙂
Yup! I spent quite a while testing and tweaking this formula, and I found lots of coconut oil is what made for a body frosting that is solid at room temperature, but melts into the skin easily.
It sounds like your house is about 2°C warmer than mine, but still cooler than 24°C, which is the melting point of coconut oil, so you might just need to wait a bit longer 🙂
Hi! Love your blog!. I followed the recipe but instead of using virgin coconut oil
I used refined (no smell) coconut oil, is that why my butter has not solidified?its been sitting at room temperature about 24c for more than 24 hours.
Hi María! It sounds like the problem might be your ambient temperature—the melting point of coconut oil is 24°C, so if it’s warmer than that, it won’t solidify for you. Is your coconut oil usually liquid at whatever room temperature is to you? If so, you’re going to need to add a bit of beeswax to thicken things up—I’d recommend starting with 5 grams and going from there 🙂
I’d love to make this recipe and customize it to smell like my favorite tea (cocoa, peppermint, lavender, and vanilla). Could I substitute the shea with mango butter? Shea butter dries my skin out…strange, right?
Hi Jennifer! Mango butter should be a great swap for shea butter 🙂 Enjoy!
Finished a batch of this last night and you were right, it is wonderful. Sealed it up in an old hummus container last night (perfect size and, hey, why not?). Went to use some this morning and it was like a rock. Think I will melt it down and whip it again to see if it can be saved…
Hi Mary! If you’re finding it sets up hard for you, try adding a wee bit more liquid oil with your next blending—your house may be chillier than mine 🙂
Hi! This is so close to a recipe I want to make. I already have all these ingredients, but I read that a good body butter should be 75% solid oils and 25% liquid…. These are all solid ingredients, although the coconut oil is borderline with my house’s temperature… I want to create something that can be whipped and piped into jars…That won’t turn to oil at room temp since I want them for Christmas gifts! Should I add beeswax to stiffen the consistency? I was worried that I need Jojoba oil or some other antioxidant to extend the shelf life… Maybe just some vit. e? How long does your recipe last? Sorry for all of the questions, but this looks perfect and I am so excited to create it IMMEDIATELY!! Thank you so much!
Hello! You shouldn’t have liquifying issues with this formula until you’re somewhere around 30°C ambient temperature, so I wouldn’t recommend adding any beeswax. You could also add some vitamin E to stave of rancidity, but even without it you should get a good 6 months to a year if the body butter is stored somewhere relatively cool 🙂
Hi Marie
This body butter is wonderful. I love the smell. It smells like the Almond Joy candy bar to me. How bad could that be to smell like a candy bar??? LOL I love the fact that it is all organic and raw not to mention it smells delightful. Thanks so much!
I’m so glad you’re loving it, Danni! I love smelling like a candy bar 😀
Hi,
Can this be used on a face or because of the essential oils, this should be avoided?
Thanks!
Hello! I probably wouldn’t put this on my face because it’s pretty heavy and cocoa butter can cause acne in those who are acne prone, but there’s no reason not to if your skin is quite dry and you aren’t acne prone.
I made this for my family members for Christmas and they all love it so much! My cousin’s husband liked it so much just putting it on his chronically dry irritated hands that he “stole” it from his wife. Thanks for the recipe that brought extra holiday cheer in Illinois. Blessings, Kimberly
I’m so thrilled to hear it, Kimberly! Thanks so much for including me in your Christmas 🙂
Hi, One more question. If I don’t have the benzoin, can I use vanilla extract? Thanks!
Hi Maria! No, please don’t do that! Vanilla extract is water soluble and will not mix. It’s also formulated for taste, not scent, and doesn’t really impart much of a vanilla scent to DIY projects.
Thanks Marie!
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In order to speed up the process during the cooling phase, could I sit the bowl of melted butter into another bowl filled with ice while blending?
You definitely can, though I have found that you still will need a few days at room temperature for the butter to settle, no matter how much you chill it.
Made this as a Christmas gift for my siblings, along with some goats milk soap and lip balms, and everyone loved it. Thanks to your wonderful recipes I was able to create gifts that (for the first time in years) EVERYONE enjoyed.
Oh, and I love and use it as well!
Thank you so much for what you do on this website – without your guidance I would not have been able to dip my toe into the wonderful (and sometimes crazy) world of soaps and lotions
Oh, and BTW, if you are the “country cousin” and want to impress/scare your urban sibs, milk a goat and make soap out of it. Be sure to put photos of you milking the goat with the soap! 🙂
Hi Mary! I just want to say that I love your comment! It made me laugh. I always feel like the “hippie cousin” in my family.
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How wonderful! I’m so thrilled you included me and my recipes in your Christmas 🙂 Thank you so very much for reading and DIYing with me!
And I’m afraid I’m quite the city girl—in a rather rural province (as most of Canada is, haha), but in a city of over a million. No goats allowed here 🙁 Do you think it’d have the same effect if I took photos of myself buying a carton of goats milk with some soap? Ha!
Hi Marie, I’ve found that cocoa butter makes my legs very itchy and my red patches start swelling up (I have eczema). Could I substitute it for more shea butter?
Hi Mylan! The short answer is no, and here’s a whole blog entry on why 🙂
Oh that’s such a helpful article! I was recently looking at this recipe again, and my sister (who is looking into having a natural skincare business) thought that maybe I could use beeswax instead of cocoa butter, although it might smell weird and feel more waxy. Do you think it would work?
No! Please don’t! Beeswax used at anything more than about 1:3.5 makes for a sticky, skiddy, hard, and super unpleasant final product. It is not even close to cocoa butter—their melting points, textures, and make-ups are completely different.
Hi! I started making this last night. Melted all the butters together and left to sit on counter overnight. They are still liquid this morning. Is that normal? Should they not set up?
It sounds like you live somewhere much warmer than I do! You might consider whipping it up over an ice bath until you have something semi-solid 🙂
What kind of jar did you use for this recipe or in general?
I’ve got an article on this in the FAQ 🙂 This one is a screw top aluminum one from NDA.
Let me clarify: does it matter if it’s glass vs a PET plastic jar?
For this recipe, no—it doesn’t contain anything too corrosive (like lots of EOs or a high pH) so plastic is totally fine. Glass is always a safe bet.
Hi Marie,
Just made up a batch of this yesterday, I live in a very warm climate so the oils stayed liquid. I had to keep putting them in the fridge, taking them out and whisking them. Checked it this morning and its all hard 🙁 can you tell me what I did wrong?
Also have you tried using fractionated coconut oil in this? I find it’s a little greasy in my climate. Or maybe I just messed it up horribly :'(
Hi Gazelle! You didn’t do anything wrong, you just live somewhere way warmer than I do. Everything in this recipe melts at 37°C or below, and with the blend of the ingredients I’d estimate the melting point of this recipe to be somewhere around 30°C. If you live somewhere warmer than that, it’s never going to set up. Using fractionated coconut oil would lower that melting point even more.
The only way you’ll be able to make this solidify in such a hot climate is to add a wax, as they have higher melting points. I’ve got some more info and links to experiments with different waxes here to give you some starting information 🙂
This is such a lovely receipe. I’ve made this so often now, although I admit that at one point I got too lazy to look up your instructions and just used coconut, cocoa and shea in equal parts, which I liked so much that I now often use this for simplicity.
Whipping air into the mixture is pure genius and makes for such easy and pleasant use, whatever the room temperature may be.
Thank you Marie, your blog is a constant joy and inspiration to me.
I’m so glad you love it 🙂 I believe this recipe started in equal parts for me as well, but the typical ambient temperature here made it too hard to use, even once it was whipped (it’d harden up, which was always sad as it looked lovely but was all chunky and crumbly). Thanks so much for reading & DIYing with me!
HI! I have several nut allergies in my family so shea butter is off the menu for us. I love the feel of it however and would like to substitute it in this recipe. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Steph
Hi Stephanie! I’d recommend mango or cupuacu butter 🙂 Have you read this? It’s super helpful.
Is this body butter greasy? It looks heavenly!
Thanks,
Kathryn
Anything that’s pure oil/butter will be greasy if you apply enough of it, especially if you don’t rub it in well. This body frosting is made from a blend of oils that have a fairly average absorption speed. A true body butter will also always be greasier than a lotion. I remedy this by spreading small amounts of it across large areas of skin 🙂
Hi Marie,
what is your opinion on fractionated coconut oil? I have read that normal coconut oil can clog your pores after a while while fractionated does not.
thanks
Sarah Ann
I’m afraid I haven’t worked with it yet—I have some on order, though! From my research, coconut oil has a comedogenic rating of 4/5, while fractionate coconut oil is more like 2/4. I don’t know why the two sources I found were not on the same scale… anywho. From that, the fractionated stuff will definitely be less pore clogging than the plain stuff.
Hi just a random question but iv been looking at different oils an was wondering if you or anyone here has ever used white poppy seed oil in body butter as my dad suffers with dry skin an apparently this oil is ment to be good for dry skin, eczema an psoriasis but wondered if anyone has experience with it before I use it, if not I’ll post my findings ☺
Ps love your blog need your book is it available in uk
Hey Kim! I haven’t ever worked with it (or even heard of it), BUT I am on my way to the UK next week… so where are you finding it? Perhaps I can get some while I am there and play with it when I get home!
And yes, my book is available in the UK! There’s lots of places that stock it linked here 🙂
Brilliant I’ll definitely be getting a copy
I ordered my oil from aromatics
Brilliant, thanks! I hope you love the book 😀
Hi Marie,
I just wanted to thank you for your great recipes, I love them!
Just tried this body frosting and I adore it! It smells so delicious.
Since this summer is super hot and I get up to 28°C in my flat, I added 5g of beeswax. Now the texture is just wonderful, so decadent!!
Keep up the great work! I really enjoy reading your entries, you are so charming 🙂
All the best from Austria,
Franziska
Hi Franziska! Thanks so much for reading 😀 I’m so glad you’re loving this body frosting—it sounds like you’re getting some stunning weather in Austria, though wow—28°Ç inside is HOT!
I made this today Marie as I’m looking forward to Christmas ideas already. I have to say, for its simplicity, this is right up there close to the Pumpkin spice one in loveliness. I subbed out 5 grams of regular cocoa butter for black cocoa butter to get an off white more mocha(?) type color and think next time I’ll up it to 7 grams. I really like the texture of black cocoa. Won’t be calling it white chocolate however. I haven’t added the benzoin yet and may not even bother. Thanks for such a variety of formulae you offer. This one would be absolutely perfect for beginner DIYers and experienced ones.
Wow, you sure are prepared! Meanwhile I still need to do Monday’s blog project, haha. Thanks so much for your kind words and for DIYing with me!
I made this recipe and it whipped pretty well. However, the next day it had firmed up. I added a little jojoba oil and it whipped up lighter, but again it hardened and became somewhat crumbly. I’m not sure adding the oil actually helped or I just whipped it longer.
Can I keep adding oil to make it softer? I don’t want to negatively affect consistency or make it too greasy by going crazy with the oil. I considered adding rosehip for faster absorption. I don’t mind having to scrape it out of the jar with my nail. My husband likes it lighter and easier to spread.
Our temperature here fluctuates quite a bit throughout the day – 32F at night up to 60F during the day right now. It may be fine in the summer. Trying to decide if tweaking it is worth the effort or I should just let it ride and try your latest recipe for Vanilla Spiced Whipped Butter next time.
Love your book, and all your recipes! You’ve become my go-to source for recipes.
Hey Cathy! From everything I’ve learned in the years since I first published this recipe I’d recommend heading over to the Vanilla Spice Whipped Body Butter if you want a softer consistency—with all the cocoa butter in here it’s never going to be a super soft body butter for an extended period of time (but at least it smells divine!). Thanks so much for reading & DIYing with me!
Hi, I live in the Caribbean where the temperatures can get up to 34 degrees Celsius, which would be room temperature, and the body butter melts, of course putting it in fridge allows it to get hard. Is there anything I can do to make it keep the fluffy consistency?
You could try incorporating some stearic acid to raise the melting point 🙂
Hi, Marie! I made this recipe and I love it. I love the whippy texture. The problem is it melts on me on hot weather and when I try to keep it in the fridge it gets too solid! u.u I have tryed other whipped recipes and they all melt on summer time. This time, with the addition of Cocoa Butter I thought that it would hold. But sadly, it didn’t. Any advice? Maybe another crunchy recipe for a creamy-like body butter that won’t melt so easily? Thanks! I love you and what you do. Love Flor.
I think you’ll probably need to create an emulsion like this one. I’ve got an FAQ on melting you might find interesting 🙂
Im making this for the second time as the first one got used up so fast as i absolutely loved it! Thank you for your wonderful ideas and explanations of formulations, they are so helpful to a newbie like me. I wish i could bottle the smell of cocoa butter, id have it on everything! Im learning so much here and experimenting alot, thank you so much!
I’m so thrilled you’re loving this body frosting! If you love cocoa butter I highly recommend grabbing some cocoa absolute if you can—bottled chocolate smell! 😀