Cocoa Butters

Cocoa butter is essentially the natural fat of the cocoa bean. Our natural conventional cocoa butter is a light yellow liquid (or solid, upon cooling) made from a blend of the finest quality cocoa beans
cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean. It is obtained by method of expeller pressing and is refined to obtain white color. It is very rich in antioxidants. Its best known attribute is its melting point just below human body temperature.
specification
cocoa butter deodorized
description: obtained by hydraulically pressing of cocoa mass, filtered and deodorized.
Physic chemical :
flavor
mild & clean
specific gravity @ 20oc 0.900 – 0.912
ffa as oleic acid % 1.50
moisture (%) 0.2 max
peroxide value 4 milli eq. Kg
iodine value 33-42
melting point 34-38oc
microbial :
total plate count gram
5000 max
coli form g absent
application:
it is basically used in cosmetics, food and toiletries items.
It is used by pharmacy companies as it is considered ideal base medicinal suppositories.
It is ingredients in soaps, lotions.
Owing to its moisturizing abilities its topical application helps in reducing stretch marks.
It can help in treatment of chapped lips and skin.
Cocoa butter is used as thickening agent in lipsticks and soaps.