Avocado Butter

Did you know you can make your own avocado butter, jojoba butter, sunflower butter, macadamia butter, or hemp seed butter? These butters are available at raw material suppliers, or you can make your own. Only one ingredient is added to liquid oils and produces them into a butter.

This avocado butter is packed with nutrient rich fatty acids and vitamins. It softens and smooths the skin without being overly greasy. It softens and tames hair. This butter can be used on its own or added as part of a formula, for example, into a skin cream or hair conditioner. Essential oils or natural fragrance oils can be added to it or it can remain unscented. In addition, it has a pleasant natural scent.

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Most solid waxes, emulsifiers are hydrogenated vegetable oils, for example the emulsifier Olivem 1000. To be in a solid form the plant oils are hydrogenated. Hydrogenated vegetable oil is a natural oil thickener, stabilizer and solidifies liquid oils. To turn liquid oils into a butter, add hydrogenated vegetable oil. It is emollient, it softens and smooths skin. Raw material suppliers offer avocado butter, jojoba butter, sunflower butter, macadamia butter, or hemp seed butter.

Make Your Own Avocado Butter

To make your own avocado butter you will need avocado oil and hydrogenated vegetable wax. Refined avocado butter has a longer shelf life and the color is a pale yellow. Unrefined avocado butter will need an antioxidant, Vitamin E, to prolong the shelf life. It is also the color green. Either oil will work. We used refined avocado oil.

The technique is very important! You will need to use high shear. You can use an immersion blender or a homogenizer. For a small sample batch, 100 grams whisk it vigorously.

Formulating Tips

• For a thinner butter, reduce the hydrogenated vegetable oil to 20% and increase the avocado oil to 80%.
• For a thicker butter, increase the hydrogenated vegetable oil to 25% and decrease the avocado oil to 75%.
• Add up to 1% essential oils or natural fragrance oils at approx. 104°F/40°C and before homogenization.
• The technique is very important! You will need to use high shear. You can use an immersion blender or a homogenizer. For a small sample batch, 100 grams whisk it vigorously.
• Too much shear and additional shear after initial shear will reduce the butter viscosity.
• The processing technique determines the viscosity, appearance, and stability of the butter.

Formula and Procedure

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