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By David Fisher, About.com Guide to Candles & Soap since 2005

Cocoa Butter - Delicious for Your Skin

Sunday February 4, 2007
cocoa podsSensation 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...
Buy natural cocoa butter...
Buy refined/deodorized cocoa butter...
Cocoa Butter Profile...

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