What Equipment Do You Need To Make A Whipped Butter?

31/1/2014

In addition to the ingredients you need the following equipment to make my DIY Whipped Butters:

Tub/containers - plastic, aluminium or glass; you can buy new ones or just re-use old jars. Old honey or jam jars will work amazingly for this.
A scale
Labels
A hand-help blender
Glass bowls (pyrex or anything heatproof)
A pot
Spoons
1ml graduated pipettes or a tiny 5ml beaker (can you see mine on the table spoon in the picture? It's tiny)
Piping bags (optional)

That's it. It is not complicated at all!

For specific ingredients please look at the list under the recipe you want to make or download Neno Natural's ~ DIY Whipped Butters Course Ingredients List (look under "resources" on the whipped butters page).

Why Do You Need The Pipettes?

Pipettes make picking up tiny quantities a lot easier than decanting from a bottle.

In one of the hair butters I will use a fragrance oil and in another I'll use colour and both of those are easier to pick up with a pipette if they don't come with a dropper cap.

Pipettes are very cheap and you can actually get them off eBay or Amazon. See links the product links to Amazon. I use a tiny beaker when I have run out of pipettes.

Can You Re-Use Pipettes?

You're not meant to but you can if you are making products just for yourself. Fill a jug with warm water and a drop of dishwashing liquid then suck the water in and out of the pipette. Do the same using clean warm water until you feel the pipette is clean.

Also, don't swap and change pipettes between different products. If you used a pipette for a certain colour or fragrance then keep using it just for that product or fragrance even after you clean it. Yes? Great!