Cocoa (cacao) Butter Pellets, Unrefined 100 gr

Cocoa butter is a rich emollient, it leaves your skin buttery soft. It contains fatty acids which help to retain moisture and build elasticity and also has properties which can help ease dermatitis or rashes. And did I mention it smells like chocolate! 

Benefits to Skin

• Antioxidants: Cocoa butter is high in antioxidants, which help fight off free radicals. Free radicals are causes of skin stressers and signs of aging.
• Stretch Mark Reducer: Cocoa butter is widely noted to help reduce stretch marks. There are no guarantees, but it seems like the secret tip is shared with every pregnant woman in the world. And many women claimed regular use of cocoa butter was what kept their stretch marks away. We're not entire convinced anything can keep them away, but you'll find many anti-stretch mark cocoa butter products to choose from. In fact Palmers, a line devoted to cocoa butter has a product just for stretch marks. People also say it has helped heal scars.
• Deep Hydration: Cocoa butter is high in fatty acids and hydrates the skin deeply.
• Sensitive Skin Healer: Again, no guarantees, but cocoa butter has been noted to help skin irritations such as eczema and dermatitis.

You can buy cocoa butter in two ways: refined or unrefined. 

• Unrefined: Creamy yellow in color, unrefined cocoa butter is simply cocoa butter in its raw form. It's easy to find organic raw unrefined cocoa butter and all of the above benefits naturally comes with the unrefined product. It smells pretty strongly of chocolate, which some cosmetics manufactures feel masks the scent of fragrance they are adding to their products.
• Refined: Refined cocoa butter strips the cocoa butter of its scent and color, making it easier to fit into cosmetic recipes without standing out. 

Cocoa Body Scrub

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/8 cup melted cocoa butter
• 1/4 cup  sweet almond oil
• sweet orange oil essential oil, or raspberry extract, or cinnamon (optional)

Instructions

1. Melt cocoa butter over low heat.
2. Mix all ingredients in bowl.
3. Store in half-pint size mason jar.