Rich Rose Geranium Body Butter Recipe

I’ve previously tried other cosmetic products with simpler recipes such as Mango Body Butter but Rich Rose Geranium Body Butter was my first attempt at making a more complicated cosmetics recipe that involved combining various phases at different temperatures. It was not particularly successful but I thought I’d share my learnings with you:

The hardest part was trying to coordinate the temperatures of the different phases so that they reached the desired temperature at the same time. The oil phase takes quite a while to cool down after melting but you can adjust the water phase more easily.
I discovered again that my stick blender was not powerful enough to blend and thicken the mix. I changed to using an electric beater and it seemed to do the trick but after a while in the pot the body butter started to lose its ‘fluffiness’ and sank down in volume.
I was disappointed with the resulting body butter because it left a very sticky finish on the skin. This recipe has a higher proportion of beeswax than others that I’ve seen and wonder whether that was the culprit? I got my recipe from Go Native but I didn’t use their beeswax so perhaps mine wasn’t prepared properly for use in a cosmetic?
Although I love the smell of rose geranium and have used the oil regularly in baths or burners, I found the smell of this body butter to be too ‘artificial’ smelling for my liking but I don’t know what that is due to as they are all natural ingredients and I didn’t identify the smell in individual ingredients.

Water Phase
200g Water
10g Glycerin

Oil Phase
50g beeswax
10g organic shea butter
15g emulsifier O
5g jojoba oil
5g sunflower oil

Last Phase
2g Geogard 221
10 drops rose geranium essential oil

Method
Heat Water Phase to 65°C.
Heat Oil Phase separately until melted. I did this in the microwave in 1 minute and then 30 second bursts. Cool to 65°C.