$16.00
This product is currently in short supply, therefore we recommend giving Kokum Butter a try as an alternative. Otherwise, simply use the Scented Wafers in the meantime, however, keep in mind your product will have a chocolaty-er smell!
Cocoa butter can be used to make soaps, creams, hair products, lotions, and lip balms to bring stiffness to the end product or used alone as a body butter. At room temperature, cocoa butter is hard but melts on contact with body heat.
It has occlusive properties with skin barrier function.
Handling: To avoid crystallization when melting cocoa butter, it is best to temper it. It's simple to do: raise the temperature on your melting cocoa butter slowly, over 45 minutes. Then, turn the heat off, cover the cocoa butter and let it cool for approximately 10 minutes. Use this method to achieve smoother lotion and lip balms.
INCI: Theobroma cacao
Shelf Life up to 5 years
SAP: NOAH 0138 KOH 0.194
Caution: Cocoa butter has a naturally occurring latex component.