Rice scrub Tutorial

I find them easy to apply, attractive in form and effective. You've certainly read our previous tutorials: Cinnamon & Cardamom scrub, poppy seed scrub and Coffee scrub. 

In this tutorial, we've applied the same principle but used ground wild rice as an exfoliant. You're all aware of health benefits of rice, rich in minerals and vitamin B. And now we apply it in this scrub. You can practically apply any kind of rice for this tutorial. I prefer wild rice or brown rice because it is richer in minerals and because of the beautiful color contrast to the butter.

Before we start I want to recommend you to read our older posts and general information regarding hygienic manufacturing practice in cosmetic lab, introduction to Basic equipment and utensil for a cosmetic lab.


 

For 100 gr rice scrub you'll need: 

66,0% Cocoa butter (66,0 gr)

3,0% Shea butter (3,0 gr) 

3,5% partially hydrogentaed soybean oil (3,5 gr)

3,0% Rice germ oil (3,0 gr)

10,0% lysolecithin (10,0 gr)

1,0% Arnica infusion in sunflower oil (1,0 gr)

0,5% alpha-Tocopherol (0,5 gr)

1,0% Fragrance oil oriental musk (1,0 gr)

12,0% ground wild rice (12,0 gr)

You'll need as well:

Beakers to melt and mix the ingredients

disposable pipettes

a water bath to melt the butters

glass rods or suitable spatulas or spoons 

a suitable mold (try our mini-oval mold for example) 

Here we go: 

One: Set the temperature of the water bath @ around 60 degrees centigrade. Melt cocoa butter, shea butter and partially hydrogenated soybean oil in the water bath. Do not over heat.

Two: After all solid ingredients are melted stop heating and add lysolecithin, Tocopherol, rice germ oil, arnica extract and mix gently.

Three: After all ingredients are mixed and as the mixture reaches a temperature of around 40 degrees centigrade add the fragrance oil and mix.

You should have ground your rice (here wild rice) in advance in a suitable kitchen mill.

Four: Divide the ground rice into mold cavities and gently pour the butter mixture over it. Put the mold immediately in the  fridge. Depending on the mold size it would take between 2- 10 hours for the butter to completely harden. This process might take longer compared with simple butter or body melt without suspended particles.

Five: Unmold the scrub pieces. After unmolding, depending on the ambient temperature, the scrubs should be kept in the fridge or not. Remember: these are butters and would melt by exposure to heat and sunlight. Store them under 25 degrees centigrade. Pack them in cellophane or in wax paper.



You can purchase all the ingredients for this project in SkinChakra® Online Shop.



 

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