What is cocoa butter and what is it used for?
Cocoa butter is very popular in the food and skin care industries. I think pretty much everyone comes into contact with cocoa butter on a daily basis in some way. Cocoa butter is used in major industries that affect millions of people every day.
If you love chocolate, you eat cocoa butter, as cocoa butter is used in all types of chocolates available on the market. Cocoa butter is found in many skin care products. It is one of the preferred ingredients used in skin care products, as the scent is amazing and cocoa butter is unique in nourishing and softening the skin.
Cocoa butter is also used in medicine. It has the same healing properties as shea butter and coconut oil. It provides the skin with lots of moisture and nutrients.
Cocoa butter is extracted from the cocoa beans. Cocoa trees are found in many African countries. The largest suppliers of cocoa butter are from the African continent. But there are also other cocoa butter suppliers from other parts of the world, for example from South America. It is claimed that cocoa beans have been cultivated for more than 3000 years and have been an important component of natural medicine in many countries around the world.
How much fat does cocoa butter contain?
Cocoa butter contains a high percentage of antioxidants, which are good for both the skin and the body. It turns out that cocoa butter is the ingredient that has the highest content of polyphenols and flavonoids. It is actually very healthy to eat cocoa butter through chocolate, as chocolate contains a lot of cocoa butter or you can also use it in cooking.
Cocoa butter contains a lot of fat, and it is comparable to coconut oil or shea butter. It contains from 57-64 percent saturated fat. Here are the following fatty acids that you will find in cocoa butter:
Stearic acid: about 24-37 percent fat
Palmitic acid: about 24-30 percent fat
Myristic acid: about 0-4 percent fat
Arachidonic acid: about 1 percent fat
lauric acid: about 1 percent fat
Use cocoa butter in your DIY beauty products
At Naturelle.dk you will find our organic cocoa butter, which is originally from the Ivory Coast. Cocoa butter contains fantastic ingredients that nourish and heal the skin, so you should use it in your beauty products. You can use it in your homemade face masks, lip balms, creams, body butters, hair masks and many other products. Cocoa butter provides lots of moisture and nourishment to the skin. The great thing about cocoa butter is that it does not make the skin greasy.
It has become popular to make homemade lip balms, and cocoa butter is used for this purpose combined with other oils and butters.
Cocoa butter is also great to use in face creams. You can put it in creams or just use the cocoa butter itself on your face. It is full of antioxidants, so it is a natural way to nourish your facial skin with antioxidants. It is a wonderful ingredient that is absorbed quickly and for a long time into the skin. It makes your skin super soft and gives it shine.
If you struggle with dry skin, cocoa butter is the best product besides shea butter.
It's so great to use natural products because you have the ability to control and choose what you put in the product. Unlike conventional products that are filled with colors, perfumes and many other things you can't tolerate anyway.
