Cocoa butter unrefined

Cocoa butter unrefined - description 

A lovely butter with luxurious aroma, highly moisturising and nourishing, helps to improve the elasticity and suppleness of the skin, good choice for stretch mark creams, body butters and lotions, handmade soaps, lotion bars, sun care, after-sun skin care, lip balm formulations. 

Appearance: solid hard butter, yellowish to slight brown colour

Odour: specific chocolatey aroma 

INCI: Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter 

Properties

• naturally high in antioxidants, rich source of fatty acids
• high oxidative stability
• provides luxury scent
• moisturising, emollient, extraordinary nourishing 
• softening effect, good spreadability on the skin
• helps to improve the elasticity and suppleness of the skin
• skin softener and protectant
• smoothing scars, wrinkles, and marks on the skin
• hair conditioning
• gives a creamy texture to balms and soaps
• solid at room temperature but melts readily on contact with the skin 

Applications, usage

• can be used for various skin care and hair care applications, in stretch mark creams, body butters, creams and lotions, handmade soaps, lotion bars, massage bars, sun care, after-sun skin care, hair conditioners, make-up, lip balm formulations
• gentle enough to use on sensitive skin and baby skin
• as ingredient for hand and foot creams, balms, ointments, dry scalp, cracked skin care 

Safety data, precautions for use: cosmetic use

Storage: in a cool, dry place, protected from light