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Cocoa butter is a natural fat which is extracted from cocoa beans. It is one of the most essential ingredients in making cakes and chocolates. It has a milk chocolaty aroma and flavor and hence is a great plus to delicacies and desserts. Cocoa butter is solid at room temperature and melts at body temperature. […]

If you have problems in getting cocoa butter, you can try an alternative to cocoa butter – shea butter. Shea butter is something that is just as useful as cocoa butter. This article will explore on how shea butter can be a great alternative to cocoa butter in skincare, personal care and other applications. Shea […]

Cocoa butter for cooking. It doesn’t sound strange. But how to use cocoa butter, a skincare ingredient, a chocolate ingredient, become an ingredient in our day to day cooking? Can you make home-made delicacies with cocoa butter? Chefs will answer with a big ‘Yes’. Cocoa butter naturally has a sweet taste and a chocolaty aroma. […]

Cocoa butter for soapmaking? Does it sound odd to you? No, it is not so. Cocoa butter is one of the most stable of natural fats. It is widely used in industrial applications and soapmaking is no exception to this. Cocoa butter has a texture that yields stability to soap. This article will detail on […]

Cocoa butter, as you all know by now, is made from cocoa or cacao beans. Cacao beans are small trees which are around 8 meters tall and found in South and Central American rain forests. Most part of the cocoa beans consists of cocoa butter, which is used as a base in chocolate manufacture. Used […]

Cocoa butter, also known as theobroma oil, is a vegetable fat component extracted from cacao beans. Pale yellow in color, cocoa butter melts only in body temperature and hence remains stable at room temperature. A natural extract from cocoa beans, cocoa butter is used in a variety of applications of which the most prominent are […]

Scars. Ugly. Unpleasant. Awkward. Scars can make your skin and body look awful. Be it a scar that you got out of a recent injury or a stretch mark that you acquired after weight loss or pregnancy or scars from acne or from bug bites or from careless razor-handling after shaving – whatever be your […]

Cocoa butter is not just a medication that can cure your skin scars or allergies, it is also an edible food. In fact, a yummy, tasty and delicious edible food. Cocoa oil is vegetable fat extracted from cocoa beans and is often used in food items like chocolate and in personal care products.  Apart from […]

Cocoa butter has many benefits. No doubts about that. But it doesn’t mean that this natural remedy-for-many-ailments is without side effects. Cocoa butter too has its own set of side effects that may harm you, the user, in one way or another. This article will explore and analyze the most important side effects of cocoa […]

Acne is dreaded by many. An acne-prone face is looked down upon, considered ugly and unpleasant. Though acne is not abhorred as a disease or a condition, it is still a cause for worry in many people. Acne is basically a result of improper maintenance of skin. Caused as an inflammatory response of the body, […]