Craft Club: Body Butter

Join us at this month's Craft Club where we'll be making whipped body butter. Watch this space for more info on the ingredients and equipment you'll need to make it along with us.

If you want to follow along with the demo, you'll need the following ingredients: 33g shea butter (can be refined or un-refined) 26g coconut oil (solid at room temp) 20g cocoa butter 20g apricot kernel oil or grapeseed oil 13g sweet almond oil Essential oils of your choice (optional)

and the following equipment: Stand mixer or hand mixer Bain-marie / glass bowl and saucepan so you can gently heat the oils/butters Scales to weigh ingredients Spatula A small (around 200g) jar/container to hold finished product

We appreciate that these aren't products that everyone is likely to have around the house, so please do feel free to join us for the demo to see if it's for you before investing in the ingredients. If you do want to stock up on any of the above, Rachel recommends www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk - drop us a message for £2.50 off your order with her referral link!

As ever, do feel free to join us while getting on with your own crafting - all our members are welcome, whether you’re following along with the monthly make or not!

For security purposes only members of Manchester WI will be admitted to the event.

Craft Club is a sub-group of the Manchester WI, run by its members for its members. Guests are very welcome to come along and see if you would like to join us (we are a very friendly bunch)! You can either come to craft club with your own project (we have knitters who come for a natter) or bring material to join in with our monthly make.