Natural Butters for Skin
Just like natural oils have their own unique properties, natural butters do also. As I mentioned in the previous post, I am a little OCD. So on my computer right now, I have a nice *little* spreadsheet that contain 57 natural oils and 8 natural butters along with their unique properties. Today we are going to look at 4 butters: Cocoa, Kokum, Shea, and Sal. Cocoa Butter Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil or theobroma cacao, is a pale-yellow, pure, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean.Cocoa butter is widely noted to help reduce stretch marks. Many of you probably used one form or another, when you were pregnant. But besides reducing stretch marks, cocoa butter is often recommended...