Grainy Shea Butter, help!

[walkingTiger007]

Hello everyone. It seems like all of a sudden I've been dealing with graininess in my body butters. I can tell like the second day if it's going to be grainy.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue and have found a solid solution to stopping this from happening at all? I melt my butters and btms 5o then send it to the freezer right away. Then I keep stirring it from time to time to make sure the sides to get so hard. Sometime it comes out perfect while other times it turns into a grainy mess....very frustrating.

PS. I've also tried using the product from WSP 'Smooth and Creamy' additive, still the same.

[TallTayl]

There used to be a miracle product for controlling stearic grains called ButterEz. There may be new offsets on the market by now. 

[NightLight]

Nature of shea butter.You may have to change your technique because of the time of year to reduce that. Or try different batch of shea butter, or modify your formula. Are you using additive at 5% per cent weighed in formula?

[walkingTiger007]

I've started tempering the Shea butter and that seems to be doing it for me. Thank you for your feedback!!

[TallTayl]

That will definitely help short term.   temp fluctuation during the life of the product will eventually cause grains to form.  It’s the nature of the beast with butters high in stearic.