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I'm planning on using brambleberry's premade organic body butter base, but want to add other butters such as cocoa butter, maybe extracts, essential oils, and fragrance. How do I do that b/c I don't know the % in the premade base? I know that there's a certain % for butters and essential oils you need for lotion and body butter. Any help would be appreciated.

Welcome!
If you add cocoa butter to the premade base, it will make it harder. Extracts are usually water soluble only, so I don't think that would work. For fragrances, I would go 0.5 oz. per lb. of base. As far as essential oils, some are stronger, some are not. Research each essential oil and what the safe usage is.

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

You can definitely doctor up the bases.

If you want to add cocoa butter, yes, it will make it a bit more hard so you might add 2 parts cocoa butter to 1 part liquid oil just to keep your consistency similar to what you're wanting.

Essential Oils - I would stick to 1-2% of the total by weight (max). I start out at .5% and then go up from there. Things like Peppermint, Spearmint will tingle and get cool. Clove and Cinnamon Leaf, I definitely don't recommend (they burn and make your skin numb) so yes, there is just a bit of research with essential oils for each individual one. =)

Extracts - if they're oil soluble, go for it! If they're water soluble, they won't mix in.

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Can the BB organic body butter base be whipped? I have tried it and it works great ( I whip it for about 5 minutes with a stick beater). However after a while it deflates to half it's volume. Any way to prevent this?

Thanks