- Add a spoonful to your bath water for a luxurious and healing experience. Especially helpful for those with dry or itchy skin, or sore muscles. Try adding Lavender or Chamomile essential oil as well, or an herbal infusion made from soothing herbs.
- In massage, Cocoa Butter is beneficial for overexerted muscles or for dry skin.
- In soaps, Cocoa Butter has a conditioning effect that adds a good lather. Try incorporating Cocoa Butter into your handmade soap recipes.
- The cocoa butter cream is used during pregnancy to keep the skin supple, and to prevent stretch marks. It may also be used after giving birth to reduce stretch marks.
- Cocoa butter has the ability to reduce or diminish the appearance of scars.
- Cocoa butter is naturally rich in Vitamin E as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamin E helps to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin and also provides the skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of ageing.
- Research indicates that massaging the skin with Cocoa Butter may help relieve stress, boost the immune system, and even prevent cancer.