Dry Flakes On Skin? No Big Deal

Dry Flakes On Skin? No Big Deal

Cocoa butter is the best known skin nourishing solution. The butter, when comes in contact with any kind of dry or ailing skin, it is known to nourish and hydrate it so wonderfully, that the skin glows.

Products that contain cocoa butter are sometimes claimed to be able to prevent stretch marks in pregnant women or to diminish the appearance of scars. These claims, however, had not been conclusively proved as of 2011. It does, however, promote elasticity in the skin and will aid in the healing of chapped skin if it is used regularly. Some users might consider it beneficial for reducing or preventing the problems like –

  • Stretch marks
  • Scars
  • Skin blemishes

Although it is extracted from chocolate, cocoa butter has a bland taste and only a faint chocolate smell. It is edible, however, and it is used in making white chocolate and certain confections.

One desirable quality is its stability as a fat that contains natural antioxidants, which also preserve it well. It has a melting point just below the average human body temperature, which is what causes chocolate to remain solid at room temperature but melt in the mouth. It gives a smooth texture to many confections that contain chocolate and is often used by culinary experts in a baking capacity.

In the pharmaceutical industry, this product is used in the making of suppositories and oral medications in capsule form. It has the ability to retain a molded shape while containing commonly used medicinal chemicals without unstable reactions. The use of cocoa butter as an inactive ingredient in capsules and suppositories is equally desirable because it is considered to be safe.

In the simplest terms, cocoa butter is the fat in chocolate that makes it melt in your mouth and in your hand. It is a plant fat from the cocoa bean that has a melting point that is just around body temperature (somewhere around 95F, give or take a few degrees, actually), meaning that it is a solid at any temperature below that point and a liquid at any temperature above it.

Now, have a look at the reference links –

  1. What is Cocoa butter? By Wise Geek
  2. The Uses Of Cocoa Butter by ehow
  3. What is Cocoa Butter by About
Posted in Cocoa Butter on Sep 24th, 2013, 3:26 pm by cocoa   

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