Recipe for preparing coccoa butter,?!
Recipe for preparing coccoa butter,?
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Sensation Chocolat Paris (which sounds more like a candy store than a spa and beauty product company) is launching a whole line of products made with cocoa-butter. I can't blame them. Cocoa butter is a great ingredient! It's wonderful to use in soaps; I recommend using it at about 5-10% of the recipe. It makes a wonderfully hard and moisturizing bar. It's also wonderful in balms, lotions, or just straight out of a jar. It's got a lot of antioxidant properties and works to lubricate and moisturize the skin. The warm, natural chocolate scent of unrefined cocoa butter doesn't quite come through in soaps, save it for the balms or body butters. You can use the refined/deodorized in both as well.
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1. Place cocoa butter, sesame oil, olive oil and avocado oil in a heat proof (I use Pyrex) measuring cup, and place the cup in a saucepan of boiling water. Once the cocoa butter is nearly melted, remove the mixture from heat and stir with a clean spoon or pop sickle stick to mix well.
2. Make sure the cocoa butter is completely melted and mixed in. Add the essential oils next and stir well to incorporate.
3. Pour the mixture into a glass bottle with a dropper top and dispense a little at a time to soothe and protect dry skin.
4. In cooler climates, this Cocoa Butter Dry Skin Complex could harden a bit. If this happens, just warm it under warm water before using or store it in a sunny window to keep it pourable.
time to make 1? hours 15 min prep
Change to: servings US Metric
2 cups mochiko sweet rice flour
1 3/4 cups sugar, granulated
3 tablespoons cocoa, ground (Nestle Quick may be substituted for the ground cocoa.)
1 tablespoon baking soda
12 ounces evaporated milk
13 1/2 ounces coconut milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together dry ingredients.
3. In a separate bowl , combine wet ingredients.
4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture in small amounts.
5. Mix until until all ingredients are well combined.
6. Pour mixture in a 9" x 13" buttered pan- will also fit in two 8"x8" pans.
7. Bake for 1 hr
8. Test with toothpick - comes out clean when done.
9. Let cool before cutting.
10. Yield may differ according to the size of the pieces-- suggest cutting in squares or 1"x2" rectangles -- it is rich.
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Gracefruit’s Lip Balm
25% Beeswax
35% Sweet Almond Oil
10% Castor Oil
14% Shea Butter
14% Cocoa Butter
2% flavour or essential oil
Melt the beeswax, castor, and sweet almond oil together on low to medium heat until the beeswax is completely liquefied. Add cocoa butter and melt until liquefied and then remove from heat. Slowly add small pieces of shea butter to the mixture and allow to melt. Doing it this way will prevent the shea butter getting too hot and then going grainy. After the shea butter has melted into the mixture, add the flavour or essential oil (we like peppermint essential oil) and pour into containers. This recipe is well suited for lip balm pots or tins.
Gracefruit’s Vegan Lip Balm
25% Olive Wax
35% Sweet Almond Oil
10% Castor Oil
14% Shea Butter
14% Cocoa Butter
2% flavour or essential oil
Melt the olive wax, castor, and sweet almond oil together on low to medium heat until the beeswax is completely liquefied. Add cocoa butter and melt until liquefied and then remove from heat. Slowly add small pieces of shea butter to the mixture and allow to melt. Doing it this way will prevent the shea butter getting too hot and then going grainy. After the shea butter has melted into the mixture, add the flavour or essential oil (we like peppermint essential oil) and pour into containers. This recipe is well suited for lip balm pots or tins.
Gracefruit’s Solid Lotion Bars
25% Beeswax
40% Apricot Kernel Oil
20% Shea Butter
13% Cocoa Butter
2% Fragrance Oil
Melt beeswax and apricot kernek oil together on low to medium heat until the beeswax is completely liquefied. Add cocoa butter and melt until liquefied and then remove from heat. Slowly add small pieces of shea butter to the mixture and allow to melt. Doing it this way will prevent the shea butter getting too hot and then going grainy. After the shea butter has melted into the mixture, add fragrance oil and pour into moulds or containers.
Gracefruit’s Bath Melts
45% Fine Sea Salt
23% Cocoa Butter
20% Shea Butter
10% Yoghurt Powder
2% Fragrance Oil
Melt cocoa butter on low heat until liquefied. Once melted remove from heat and slowly add small pieces of shea butter to the mixture and allow to melt. Doing it this way will prevent the shea butter getting too hot and then going grainy. In a separate bowl, combine the sea salt and yoghurt powder by stirring with a whisk. Carefully pour the melted cocoa butter and shea butter over the salt and yoghurt mixture, add the fragrance oil, and stir until smooth. You will have a consistency very close to that of wet sand. Spoon the mixture into individual moulds (we like silicone ice or chocolate moulds for this) and allow to cool and harden. To use, simply drop one or two melts into the bath and enjoy.
This recipe also makes a wonderful body scrub.