Cocoa Butter Lotions

What is Cocoa Butter Used For?

Cocoa Butter is an extremly healthy ingredient for the skin and can be used anywhere on the body. The benefits are enormous for skin on women and men at any age! It works for skin softening (a major problem as we age is skin hardening that makes it look leathery), great for skin hydration and moisture retention (most only hydrate but do nothing to retain moisture), penetrates to all levels of skin instead of just surface skin. Cocoa Butter has Anitoxidant properties to help undo the damage caused by the elements such as the sun!

Cocoa Butter For Stretch Mark Prevention

• Applying cocoa butter lotion is widely used for preventing and healing the apperrance of stretch marks that are caused by weight gain, pregnancy and muscle gain - any situation where the skin is stretched. Many believe that it works well because of the extreme flexibilty that cocoa butter can give to the skin.

Coco Butter For Skin Softening & Hydration

• Cocoa Butter does have excellent skin moisture and skin softening properties. Cocoa butter is easily accepted and absorbed by the skin.By using cocoa butter for moisture you still allow the skin to breathe (many other syntehtic ingredients coat the skin causing many longer term skin issues. Our cocoa butter body lotion and body creams use unrefined cocoa butter and unrefined shea butters to allow for maximum benefits of the butters - unrefined butters keep their healing powers and give amazing benefits - most store bought lotions use REFINED butters (much less effective).

Antioxidant Properties of Cocoa Butter - Unrefined vs Refined!

• Cocoa butter is rich in anitoxidants. These antixodants when used topically in lotions neutralize harmful free radicals on the skin. This stops free radicals from damaging the body's skin cells. You will often hear that dark chocolate has great anti oxidant value from the (cocoa). But remember that if you buy refined cocoa butter is chemically treated to remove its color and chocolaty smell. When this is done the natural antioxidants are also depleted which reduces its beneficial effects on the skin!