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Cocoa butter is the magic that gives chocolate its texture. As an extremely stable fat with a melting point right around body temperature, cocoa butter allows a bar of chocolate to remain solid at room temperature, while melting once eaten. Its natural antioxidants provides long storage times and contribute to some of the health benefits attributed to chocolate.
The most common use of cocoa butter, aside from eating, is skin moisturizing. The same body temperature melting point that makes chocolate gooey works to make cocoa butter readily absorbed by the skin. Most cocoa butter vendors claim that it will make your skin feel smooth and firm.
Cocoa butter is a popular supplement for women trying to eliminate stretch marks, often after a pregnancy. According to a 2009 New York Times article, scientific studies have debunked cocoa butter's ability to cure stretch marks by itself, but many cocoa butter-based products marketed as stretch mark busters also include vitamin E, which is proven to be effective.
Cocoa butter is high in cocoa mass polyphenol (CMP), a substance that inhibits immuno globulin E (IgE). This pharmaceutical effect has led to claims that cocoa butter can fight everything from dermatitis to asthma, arthritis to heart disease, even skin cancer. While cocoa butter's therapeutic effect on skin is obvious and well documented, there is not yet solid scientific research backing any of CMP's medical benefits.
Because cocoa butter is so beneficial to skin, it features as a prominent ingredient in many soaps. The primary difficulty of using cocoa butter for soap is finding a perfume to overcome the natural chocolate scent. However, cocoa butter soap leaves skin feeling more smooth and hydrated than many other traditional soap recipes.
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