Description
Rich cocoa flavor in your cooking and soft, moisturized-feeling skin, from one jar of unrefined organic cocoa butter.
- In the kitchen. Real cocoa aroma for baking, homemade chocolate, or a spoonful melted into coffee or steamed milk.
- On your skin. A rich, softening body butter that leaves skin feeling smooth.
- Naturally rich in stearic acid, a saturated fat that stays stable when you cook with it.
- Naturally contains vitamins E and K and cocoa antioxidants.
- Organic and fair trade certified, natural and unrefined, food grade and non-GMO.
Why it fits bioenergetic, low-toxin living. Saturated fats like cocoa butter are stable and slow to oxidize, a simple swap away from seed oils. Unrefined, organic and nothing added.
Customers say: “This is THE best cocoa butter I’ve ever had, melts easy & creamy!” And: “Fantastic addition to a cup of coffee! I add it to my steamed milk so it froths up even more!”
For skin, use it as a cosmetic, to soften and moisturize. 1 lb. 60-day no hassle returns.
Cocoa butter is mostly stearic, palmitic and oleic fats, with small amounts of vitamin E.
What's in cocoa and cocoa butter
Torres-Moreno M, Torrescasana E, Salas-Salvadó J, Blanch C (2015). Nutritional composition and fatty acids profile in cocoa beans and chocolates with different geographical origin and processing conditions. Food Chem 166:125-132. PMID 25053037.
Stearic acid in the diet
Bonanome A, Grundy SM (1988). Effect of dietary stearic acid on plasma cholesterol and lipoprotein levels. N Engl J Med 318(19):1244-8. PMID 3362176. A diet rich in stearic acid, much of it from cocoa butter, did not raise cholesterol the way palmitic acid did.
Stearic acid and mitochondria
Senyilmaz D, Virtue S, Xu X, et al. (2015). Regulation of mitochondrial morphology and function by stearoylation of TFR1. Nature 525(7567):124-8. PMID 26214738. Dietary stearic acid changed mitochondrial shape and function in flies and human cells.
Lipids and the skin barrier
Feingold KR, Elias PM (2014). Role of lipids in the formation and maintenance of the cutaneous permeability barrier. Biochim Biophys Acta 1841(3):280-94. PMID 24262790.
Vitamin E
Mustacich DJ, Bruno RS, Traber MG (2007). Vitamin E. Vitam Horm 76:1-21. PMID 17628169.
Bioenergetic & low-toxin perspective
Ray Peat favored stable saturated fats over seed oils.
"But people who study free radical chemistry recognize that polyunsaturated fats are highly susceptible to oxidation, and that saturated fats tend to slow their degradation, acting to some extent as antioxidants." — Ray Peat, "Cholesterol, longevity, intelligence, and health" (https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/cholesterol-longevity.shtml)
"The saturated fats in chocolate have been found to block the toxicity of oils rich in linoleic acid, and its odd proteins seem to have an anabolic action." — Ray Peat (https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/alzheimers2.shtml)
A related study, not one Peat cited: Senyilmaz 2015 (above), on stearic acid and mitochondria.
Note: These studies are about cocoa butter's fats and nutrients in general, not this exact product. Skin use is cosmetic. This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Real cocoa richness for your kitchen and soft-feeling skin, from cocoa butter customers call the best they've had.
- Organic and fair trade certified, unrefined, with the real cocoa aroma.
- "You can taste the quality," one customer says.
- Food grade and skin-friendly: one jar for both.
- Free of the top allergens.
- A family-owned shop for bioenergetic, low-toxin living.
- 60-day no hassle returns.
