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The first time I ever made body butter was with Shea, Coconut oil, and a little fragrance (plus some arrowroot powder). IT came out fine and even 10 months later was still smooth and fluffy feeling.

Well I made my new batch this weekend. I would say saturday I made the test batch. IT turned out great! It was great on Sunday too. I go to open my jar today and it's HARD! not like a deflate hard but like, dryer, hard lotion! And I'm freaking out because instead of Coconut oil I used Meadowfoam oil which I hadn't used before and my grandmother bought some from me to give to her friends. I can't give this product out, especially as I made super light and fluffy double batch today for all those jars.

The recipe (original batch, non doubled. Yielded about 12.25oz)

14oz Refined Shea
2oz of meadowfoam
5ml fragrance
2tbsp arrowroot

I'm so freaked out and I've been searching but nothing is coming up that seems helpful. Can I just rewhip all of this and perhaps add more of a liquid oil? Do you think that will work?

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I'm in north eastern Ohio so we've definitely been colder. I was making these in the basement which is about 68 degrees F and the upstairs is about 73F. Even the jar I had upstairs with me hardened up and the new batch feels a bit stickier today much like how the shea was when I was whipping it in the basement. I did pop 7oz of shea (in the double batch of 28oz of shea) in the microwave to help smooth it out.

In the double batch I used 4oz of meadowfoam oil. I'm wondering if I should continue to add more meadowfoam or supplement it with coconut oil. I'm not quite sure how to calculate the 80%/19%/1% if that's the final product or not.

I should probably remix it upstairs not the basement LOL

I would remix it upstairs. Use whichever oil is a liquid at room temperature; probably the meadowfoam.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Irena, thank you for the reassurances. I went ahead and remixed all the butter upstairs (after leaving the jars up here for two days to hopefully soften a bit)

Before adding an additional 2oz of meadowfoam (and I think I could have been fine with just 1 additional oz) I noticed during the initial spin that the shea butter had come off as sticky, much how it was when I was first making the batch. I thought that was interesting. It smoothed out after adding the liquid oils and it certainly did the trick so I'm wondering if I should be doing this at room temperature instead of the basement during the cooler months.

My next batch will involve some cocoa butter, mango butter, shea and argan oil so we'll see how it goes!

Thank you again for your help!

You're welcome. It sounds like you would do better working with it at room temperature instead of a cold basement.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.