Cocoa Butter | Soap and Skincare Butters

Description

Botanical Name: Theobroma Cacao

With extraordinary skincare properties, this refined, deodorised cocoa (cacao) butter has infinite uses – adding a luxurious touch to soap, balms, butters, lotions, masks and more.

Cocoa butter is quite hard and brittle and is a pale yellow colour.  Current stock is quite white as it is the bleached type.

Cocoa butter contributes to a hard bar of soap and a stable lather, and is typically used at a maximum of 15%.

• Lauric Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 0%
• Myristic Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 0%
• Linoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, lather silkiness) 2-6%
• Oleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, later silkiness) 30-40%
• Palmitic Acid (hardness, stable creamy lather) 25-30%
• Ricinoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, stable creamy lather) 0%
• Stearic Acid (hardness, stable lather) 30-40%