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    Home » Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe

    Published June 5, 2015 29 comments >>

    This cooling foot butter recipe will soothe your tired and hot feet with essential oils that cool, deodorize and naturally kill bacteria. The creamy lotion will also smooth and soften your feet with coconut oil, mango butter and vitamin e.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

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    Tired Feet

    Poor feet! They really take the brunt of long days hiking, jobs that require long periods of standing, weddings spent in high heels, flip-flops on sandy beaches, and hours trapped in running shoes.

    Take a little time to thank your feet for all their hard work with a little TLC.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    How Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Works

    This Cooling Foot Butter contains three essential oils that work together to cool feet and eliminate foot odor:

    1. Peppermint oil contains menthol which is soothing and cooling to the skin and/or skin irritations. Peppermint oil also smells great and may have some bacteria killing properties.
    2. Tea tree oil is both antibacterial and antifungal, learn more from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
    3. Eucalyptus oil has a fresh and clean aroma and has been used as both an antiseptic and antifungal according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

    The recipe also uses three extremely effective natural moisturizers to soften your skin:

    1.  Mango butter is pressed from the seed of the mango fruit. It is highly emollient (softening and soothing) to skins and has a high content of both oleic and stearic acid which seal in moisture.
    2. Virgin coconut oil is a raw vegetable oil that is an excellent moisturizer with a high content of lanauric acid which is anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial.
    3. Vitamin E oil is a vitamin oil know for its skin healing and antioxidant properties; it is often used in beauty products to reduce the signs of aging and treat skin conditions such as sunburn psoriasis, eczema, and stretch marks. It also acts as a natural preservative in homemade body care items.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

     Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Ingredients

    • ¼ cup virgin coconut oil 
    • ¼ cup mango butter
    • 1 tsp vitamin e oil
    • 15 drops tea tree oil
    • 5 drops eucalyptus oil
    • 15 drops peppermint oil
    • 4 ounce storage containers

    Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Directions

    1. Melt coconut oil and mango butter together in a glass jar or metal container. (For this recipe I place my metal mixing bowl in a saucepan of simmering water to make a fake double boiler.) Watch the mixture carefully and remove from the heat as soon as the mango butter is melted. Do not overheat!

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    2. Remove the container from the heat, stir in essential oils and vitamin e oil. Cool the mixture to room temperature. (Place the bowl in the refrigerator for a few minutes to cool faster.)

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    3. Whip the room temperature mixture in a stand mixer or with a whisk until it is creamy and lighter in color.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    It will start out as pale yellow and turn to shiny ivory as it is whipped.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    4.  Store in a closed container and use within 3 months. I store mine in the fridge for extra cooling power. It can also be stored at room temperature.

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    To use: Apply to feet and in between toes and rub into the skin on your legs. The cooling oils feel heavenly on hot or tired feet and legs. The foot butter also works great for a DIY pedicure. For extra moisturizing, liberally apply the butter at night and then put on cotton socks. You will wake up with soft, sweet-smelling feet.

     Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Cost

    My Cooling Foot Butter costs around $6.00 for 19 ounces or $0.32 an ounce.  That’s approximately $2.16 for the coconut oil, $3.00 for the mango butter, $0.53 for the vitamin e oil and approximately $0.50 for the essential oils.

    A similar natural alternative on Amazon costs $16.00 for 8.4 ounces or $1.90 an ounce. You’re saving more than $30 by making your own all-natural foot butter and you know exactly what it contains!

    Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe soothes & softens feet with 3 essential oils to cool, deodorize & naturally kill bacteria plus natural moisturizers.

    I hope you try my Easy Cooling Foot and Leg Butter Recipe; your feet with thank you for the special treatment! If you’re looking for more easy ways to pamper your feet you should try Cooling Foot and Shoe Deodorizing Powder and No More Stinky Feet Spray. Together these three all-natural, non-toxic products will keep you feet and shoes smelling and feeling great all year-long.

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    Comments

    1. Lou

      June 29, 2020 at 1:48 pm

      I’m excited to try this. I’ll be using a hand electric mixer with the whisk attachment. Approximately how long do you have to whip this to get it creamy? I plan on trying this for myself first and then if I like it I’ll be making more for part of my Christmas gift baskets including homemade jams. Thanks!

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 05, 2020 at 2:51 pm

        It takes a few minutes of whipping. The exact time depends on the size and strength of the mixer.

        Reply
    2. Sarah

      June 22, 2020 at 11:38 am

      Hiya! Great recipe, thank you! I had to use cocoa butter instead of mango butter. It whipped fine but has set completely solid! Is that because if the cocoa butter? Any ideas on if I can melt it down, add mango butter and whip again?! Thank you!

      Reply
    3. Shelly L Williams

      September 05, 2018 at 3:39 pm

      Hi, like some others I can’t get mine to whip, I had to use shea butter but saw that was ok. Do you think it is because I also had to substitute the tea tree out with lavender? I had all the other ingredients except those 2. Oh I also tried using a regular mixer before using a whisk, does that matter?
      I’m also not receiving the news letters, tried several times to sign up, love your recipes and ideas. My family and friends are getting all kinds of goodies as freeie gifts from me. Lol.
      Shelly

      Reply
      • Bren

        September 06, 2018 at 7:33 am

        I think it should still whip with the substitutions, but I can’t be sure b/c I’ve never made it that way. I would make sure it is well chilled and then try whiping again. You can use a regular mixer with a whisk attachment. Good luck!

        Reply
    4. Rachel Haley

      June 27, 2018 at 4:49 pm

      Would Shea butter work as an alternative to the mango butter? Thanks

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 05, 2018 at 9:52 am

        Yes, you can use shea butter. It may change the scent slightly.

        Reply
    5. Noola

      June 03, 2018 at 5:10 am

      Hi, thanks for the recipe. I made it and it looks fav although very greasy… I made it to substitute the colling gel I use at the end of the day after 11 hours standing up. Mine gives me that cooling icy sentation but I didn’t feel anything like that with this product. Shall I add more eucalyptus or peppermint you think?
      Thanks!

      Reply
      • Bren

        June 04, 2018 at 9:57 am

        Noola, adding more peppermint would give you more of a cooling sensation. It’s the menthol in the peppermint that is cooling.

        Reply
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