Here’s my basic recipe:

1 cup shea butter

1 cup coconut oil

1-2 tbsp vitamin e oil

Essential oils for fragrance (10-25 drops)

Melt everything together in a double boiler and stir to blend the oils together. The shea butter will be the last to melt, but it will. As soon as it does, put the bowl right in the freezer for about a half hour to an hour, until it is mostly frozen. Once frozen, take it out and immediately use a stand mixer or handheld mixer to whip it until it has the consistency of whipped cream. Spatula it into a container, keep at room temperature.

That’ll make a pretty great body butter, but to make green dragon body butter, you’re going to want to either pre-infuse the coconut oil before you use it, or add your desired quantity of tincture while you’re melting all of the oils together.

We use this for massages, arthritis, muscle aches, dry skin, etc. I even got a bunch of tiny tins to gift it to friends.