COCOA VEGETABLE BUTTER
This pale yellow butter with a delicate chocolatey smell is a more neutral alternative to our raw ORGANIC cocoa butter. It allows you to enjoy the benefits of this very nourishing butter rich in unsaponifiable without coloring your formulas. This hard butter brings consistency to balm formulas and is appreciated for protecting dry and rough skin. Ideal in lip balm recipes, it is also appreciated in cold saponification for its hardening effect.
ID CARD![]() Method of obtaining
The fruits are washed and their envelope is removed. They are then fermented, which reduces the pulp. The fermented seeds are the cocoa beans, which are then roasted, cooled, and then pressed to give the cocoa mass. the cocoa butter is separated from this mass and then deodorized with vacuum steam. Part of the extracted plant.................Beans
Botanical name...................................Theobroma cocoa
Botanical family...................................Sterculiaceae
Function..............................................Cosmetic ingredient
Quality
100% pure and natural butter, cosmetic and food quality Native country........................................Peru
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QUALITYProduction date
December 2017 (lot 18BEU0040) and December 2019 (lot 20BEU0005)
Use preferably before
December 2020 (lot 18BEU0040) and December 2021 (lot 20BEU0005)
On the label, the lot number is followed by a letter indicating the packaging series. Organoleptic properties
- Appearance: very hard butter at room temperature; liquid oil above 35 ° C Density
0.92 (density corresponds at 20 ° C)
Fusion point
35 ° C
Saponification index
188-198
Composition
Composition of fatty acids - gas phase chromatography of lot 20BEU0005:
Composition of fatty acids - gas phase chromatography of lot 18BEU0040:
Other active constituents : This butter, filtered to remove the brown color of cocoa, is less rich in polyphenols (catechin, epicatechin) than our raw organic cocoa butter, but it remains rich in interesting active ingredients, in particular:
Focus on cocoa unsaponifiables: vegetable oils and butter are mainly composed of fatty acid triglycerides, compounds which are "saponified" to give soap and glycerin when adding a strong base (soda, potash). Unsaponifiables are compounds present in small quantities in oils and butter which do not undergo saponification. They, therefore, remain in the finished soap and give it their properties. These "unsaponifiables" are real cosmetic active ingredients which also enrich your balms, butter, creams ... They are mainly vitamin E (tocopherols, tocotrienols), carotenes, phytosterols, squalene. These compounds have antioxidant, softening, repairing properties ... |