Cocoa Butter - Delicious for Your Skin
Sunday August 6, 2006
Sensation Chocolat Paris (which sounds more like a candy store than a spa and beauty product company) is launching a whole line of products made with cocoa-butter. I can't blame them. Cocoa butter is a great ingredient! It's wonderful to use in soaps; I recommend using it at about 5-10% of the recipe. It makes a wonderfully hard and moisturizing bar. It's also wonderful in balms, lotions, or just straight out of a jar. It's got a lot of antioxidant properties and works to lubricate and moisturize the skin. The warm, natural chocolate scent of unrefined cocoa butter doesn't quite come through in soaps, save it for the balms or body butters. You can use the refined/deodorized in both as well.Read about Sensation Chocolat Paris' cocoa-based products...
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Comments
Well I stand corrected…sort of. Maggie from A Wild Soap Bar says that when she uses natural cocoa butter at 10% of the recipe, the chocolate smell comes through just fine. I’ll give it another try! Thanks Maggie.