What Is Cocoa Butter?
Cocoa butter is an organic fat extracted from the cocoa bean. For the perfect cocoa butter, people often get the seeds from large cocoa trees. Then roast the seeds through complex and advanced production stages to squeeze out the butter. This product retains almost all of the characteristic flavor and beneficial active nutrients in cocoa.
Cocoa butter contains many fatty acids, vitamin K, vitamin E, natural antioxidants and many other beneficial minerals. Thanks to its nutrient-rich ingredients, cocoa butter has become a popular food and natural cosmetic product. In addition, cocoa butter contributes to the creation of delicious chocolate and this is an indispensable kind of raw chocolate for baking.
What Is Cocoa Butter For?
- Make up
- Skin care: Provides moisture, helps skin to be moisturized naturally without shine, without causing greasiness on the skin. Especially against dry, chapped and flaky skin in cold season. Reduce wrinkles, healthy skin, ruddy, smooth, stimulate blood circulation under the skin.
- Lip balm: Anti-dry and cracked lips. Lip balm with cocoa butter helps you avoid the fear of swallowing chemicals from lip balm into your body. Apply a layer of cocoa butter to your lips before going to bed and waking up will be surprised with your soft, fresh lips.
- Hair care: To restore dry, split ends and dry hair
- Anti stretch marks: Limit stretch marks for pregnant women or those who are losing weight. Natural origin should absolutely not affect the fetus and health.
- Support for scar treatment: Regular use of cocoa butter stimulates the skin to produce collagen to restore skin with concave scars, vitamins in cocoa butter help fade scars, dark spots.
- Making food
- It is a clean and perfect ingredient in making high quality cakes and chocolate.
- Health benefits: Cocoa butter has the same effect as cocoa powder if using an appropriate amount. The cardiovascular benefits can be mentioned as reducing cholesterol in the body, fighting atherosclerosis and stroke due to the heart.
Due to its high antioxidant properties, cocoa butter has the effect of repelling bad cells and preventing cancer. On the other hand, cocoa butter also helps the spirit to relax, relieve "psychological" pain, soothe emotions.
Note
Use cocoa butter in reasonable amounts
According to nutrition experts, although cocoa butter has many benefits, if overused it will have the opposite effect. It is strongly advised that you should only use an amount equal to the amount of baking powder or chocolate making. [Nbsp]
How to preserve cocoa butter
Cocoa butter is usually brittle and brittle and brittle when the temperature is lower than 20 ° C. At 30-32 ° C the butter will soften and 35 -37 ° C is the melting point of the butter. Means at normal temperature if the weather is slightly hot the butter melts easily. Therefore, you need to store the product in the refrigerator cooler or where the temperature is not too high.
- Choose cocoa butter from a clear origin
When buying and using cocoa butter, you should pay attention to where it comes from. You should choose reputable brands, avoid cocoa butter without labels and origins.
Where to buy pure cocoa powder?
Produced from International UTZ certified cocoa pods from “flavored” cocoa seeds grown in Dong Nai. Cocoa Powder of Trong Duc Trong Duc (18% butter ratio) will be the best choice for you to enjoy a full cup of cocoa with the right flavor, bitterness, slightly greasy and a bit of a mild sour residue. You can freely prepare a cup of cocoa according to your own recipe. Especially those who love cocoa but are on a diet will feel secure to use it.