{"id":1442,"date":"2017-07-31T23:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2017-08-02T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:37:19","slug":"cold-whipped-shea-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Cold Whipped Shea Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve evidently had a problem with our thermostat not properly reporting humidity, so our HVAC was not maintaining the desired humidity level. The installer replaced the thermostat last week, and we&#8217;ve gone from 60% to 49% relative humidity downstairs. We&#8217;re intentionally keeping the lower level cooler than the upper &#8212; there&#8217;s a lot of solar heating even with curtains drawn. And, well, relative humidity is relative to\u00a0<em>temperature.\u00a0<\/em>So our 60% was more like 50% upstairs &#8230; still high. Our 49%, though, is 39% upstairs. And for the first time since I started making my own soap, my skin is a little dry. So is Anya&#8217;s. We can just slather on some coconut oil &#8212; it melts in your hand and absorbs fairly well &#8212; but I wanted to try something a little fancier. And I happened across a good deal on shea butter a few weeks back, so whipping a combination of shea butter and coconut oil seems like a winner.<\/p>\n<p>1 cup unrefined shea butter<br \/>\n1 cup coconut oil<br \/>\n2 tablespoons vegetable glycerin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mash the room-temperature shea butter in the mixing bowl. Add essential oils if desired (or melt coconut oil and infuse with herbs).<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the coconut oil. If the whole thing is a little melty, stick it in the refrigerator to solidify a bit<\/li>\n<li>Whip with a stand mixer until it&#8217;s fluffed like whipped cream. Fin. Scoop it into jars (we have a bunch of wide mouth canning jars, so I&#8217;ll be using a few of those) and store in a cool room or the refrigerator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve evidently had a problem with our thermostat not properly reporting humidity, so our HVAC was not maintaining the desired humidity level. The installer replaced the thermostat last week, and we&#8217;ve gone from 60% to 49% relative humidity downstairs. We&#8217;re intentionally keeping the lower level cooler than the upper &#8212; there&#8217;s a lot of solar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soapmaking","tag-body-butters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}