Meg's DIY Magnesium Body Butter

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Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup organic extra virgin coconut oil

1/2 cup unrefined shea butter (You can find them at many health food stores or online.)

• 1/4 cup magnesium oil (I use Life-Flo Magnesium oil night spray with arnica and lavender)

• Essential oil of your choice (optional) MG:I have used peppermint, lavender, copaiba, frankincense. Sometimes I add arnica or CBD oil. For the Eos I will put about 20 drops in. for CBD, I will put in 1-2 dropperful of an unflavored oral tincture between 1000-2000mg).

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Steps

1. In a double boiler or over low heat, melt coconut oil and butters.

2. Pour into medium sized bowl and let cool for until it begins to get opaque. Sometimes I will put it in the fridge or outside if its cold out. This first cooling takes the longest. If you use the fridge don't leave it in too long or it will harden.

3. Using a stand mixer or hand blender with the whipping attachment, start to whip together the oils.

4.Begin to add in the magnesium oil slowly until well combined. At this point you can also add essential oils of your choice. Keep in mind that not all essential oils are healthy for the skin or safe for kids and pregnant women to use. Also, if you put in too many, the consistency of the butter will be affected.

5. Place in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes until it is semi-solid and then reblend. It is best to set the lotion in this way so that it whips up optimally- giving it a divinely fluffy texture. (Note from Meg: I actually like to rewhip the mixture 2 times, as it gets fluffier each time)

6. Scoop into glass jars and store in the refrigerator. The body butter will be firm when you first start to apply, but melts nicely into the skin and absorbs rapidly. You can store out on the counter, however if the oils start to melt (usually occurring around 70 degrees or so) you will lose the whipped texture. Because the oils used are generally very stable, it should last for a few months.

If made by the above recipe, each tsp of lotion will contain somewhere around 250 mg of magnesium per tsp. Although history, diet, stress, physical exertion and other lifestyle factors all play a role in determining the amount of magnesium required by an individual at any given time, a general rule of thumb for daily supplementation is 3-4 mg of magnesium per pound of body weight.

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Adapted from:

https://blog.radiantlifecatalog.com/bid/65084/DIY-Whipped-Coconut-Oil-Body-Butter-

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