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Butter Type
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Best for skin type:
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Information about butter:
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Almond Butter
1-2 years
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ALL, especially dry
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Almond Butter (Prunus dulcis) ~ is obtained from the sweet almond oil, containing
all of the properties of the almond oil, only thicker and richer!
INCI: (pending) Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis
Suggested Usage Rate: Up to 100% in a balm or lotion bar
Solubility: Oil Soluble
semi soft butter
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Aloe Butter
6 months - 1 year
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ALL, especially those looking for a very healing butter!
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Aloe Butter
Extraction Method - EFFLEURAGE
All natural, containing no preservatives or coloring.
Suggested use is between 3%-100%.
semi soft butter |
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Apricot Kernel Butter
6 months - 1 year
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Best for dry or combination skin
Oily skin may find it too emollient
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Apricot Kernel Butter ~ exceptionally moisturizing. This butter is light in
color and has a gentle nutty scent.
INCI: Prunus Armeniacae
Suggested Usage Rate: Up to 100%
Solubility: Oil Soluble
soft/medium butter
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Avocado Butter
1 year
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Any type of skin but especially dry
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An exotic butter from the tropical regions of the world.
It is obtained from the oil, of the fruit, of the
avocado tree. It is produced through a
unique process which produces a soft
butter with a mild scent. It is known
to help moisturize and soften
rough, dry, and cracked skin.
Works excellent in soaps, lip balms, lotion bars,
creams, lotions, and body butters.
SAP Value 197.5
INCI: Persea Gratissima Seed
Suggested Usage Rate: Up to 100%
Solubility: Oil Soluble
soft/medium butter
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Chaulmoogra Butter
1 year
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All, but especially on eczema, psoriasis, bruised skin
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The active ingredient in Chaulmoogra butter is the "chaulmoogric acid". This is oil is recognized for its antimicrobial properties (used specifically against mycobacterium leprae. Used for inflammation of the skin as well as issues such as eczema, psoriasis, bruises, etc.
INCI: Hydnocarpus laurifolia
hard butter
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Cocoa Butter
2-3 years
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Dry and combo skin. This can be a bit too emollient for oily skin
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INCI: Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter
Suggested Usage Rate: up to 25%
Cocoa butter is one of the most stable fats known, containing natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity and give it a storage life of two to five years, making it a good choice for non-food products. The smooth texture, sweet fragrance and emollient property of cocoa butter make it a popular ingredient in cosmetics and skin care products, such as soaps and lotions.
hard butter
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Coconut Cream
VERY LONG SHELF LIFE
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This oil is liquid in warmer weather and solid in colder weather. Great for acne spots or an all over body cream!
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Botanical Name: Cocos nucifera
Origin: India
Extraction Method: Cold Pressed / Centrifuged / Organic / Virgin
Color: white
Obtained From: fresh coconut flesh
Uses: smells so beautiful! Moisturizing, protecting, and
helps to keep other carrier oils from going rancid Base Oil: up to 25%
soft/medium butter
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Cupuacu Butter
2 years
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Great especially for dry skin. May be too emollient for oily
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INCI:Theobroma grandiflorum butter
This butter is imported from Brazil. Used for it’s emollient
and softening properties. Give this a try in your hair conditioner!
helping to restore the natural moisture to your skin, this butter
is creamy and highly beneficial for dry and damaged skin!
medium/hard butter
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Dhupu Butter
1 year
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Great for dry skin, possibly too moisturising for oily skin
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Dhupa Butter, also known as Malabar Tallow
is obtained from the dried kernels of the
fruits of Vateria indica, a large majestic
tree growing in India. This butter with
its characteristics is used as a
substitute for cocoa butter!
Properties:
* Emollient
* Superior oxidative stability
* Good spreadability
INCI: Vateria Indica Linn
Suggested Usage Rate: up to 20% in the oil
phase Solubility: Oil
medium/hard butter
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Hemp Butter
1-2 years
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All skin types
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INCI: Cannabis Sativa Butter
Hempseed is a rich source of omega fatty acids. Very nutritious and emollient to the skin! Helps damaged or irritated skin
soft butter
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Illipe Butter
2 years
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All skin types
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Illipe Butter ~ is the fat obtained from the nuts of
Shorea Stenoptera, a wild crop in the jungle of
South East Asia. Illipe butter is recommended
to heal sores and mouth ulcers. It reinforces
the skin lipidic barrier and helps maintain
skin moisturization.
INCI: Shorea stenoptera
Suggested Usage Rate: up to desired strength
hard butter!
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Jojoba Butter
2 years +
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All skin types, especially oily or combo!
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Known for its effective treatment/conditioning with eczema and psoriasis.
A wonderful addition to your skin care formulas!
INCI: 100% pure Jojoba Oil; Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
Suggested Usage Rate: up to 100%
soft butter
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Jojoba Esters
2 years +
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All skin types, especially oily or combo
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Jojoba esters, 20 (previously called MP44) is a soft, creamy, white wax that feels just like liquid jojoba when it melts on the skin. It is used to replace some of the beeswax in lip balms
and lotion bars to reduce the waxy feel. It imparts the natural moisturizing properties of jojoba while still maintaining the rigidity of stick balms.
This product can also be used in creams, lotions, salt scrubs and bath bombs.
INCI: hydrogenated jojoba oil [white]
soft butter
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Kokum Butter
2 years
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All skin types
But especially good for damaged skin that needs healing!
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Kokum Butter ~ is obtained from the fruit kernel of Garcinia indica, which grows in the savanna areas in parts of the Indian subcontinent. It is the most stable and hardest exotic butter.The melting point is 38-40 C. It has good whitecolor even without refining. Kokum butter has been used as an astringent, local application to ulceration and fissures of lips, hands, and soles.
Suitable for applications in skin and hair products,
acne products, and skin tonics.
INCI: Garcinia indica
Suggested Usage Rate: up to formulators discretion
Solubility: oil or oil phase
hard butter
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Kukui Nut Butter
1 year
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Any skin type!
This is one of Jen's fave butters!
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Smells mildly nutty and very rich!
Kukui Nut Oil; Watermelon Seed Oil; Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
Suggested Usage Rate: up to formulators discretion
Solubility: oil
excellent penetration qualities! Without leaving
a greasy feeling it protects delicate tissue from
drying out. This is one of the lightest
oils for the facial area.
soft butter
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Macadamia Nut Butter
1 year
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ALL skin types!
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INCI: Macadamia Integrifolia
Suggested Usage Rate: up to 10%
Solubility: Oil soluble
Contains: high concentratin of palmitoleic acid!
Uses: similar in its chemical structure to the sebum
of human skin. Excellent emollient!
soft butter
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Mango Butter
1 year
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ALL, especially those looking for a very healing butter!
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Mango Butter - our mango butter is cold pressed. It
is an exotic butter that is obtained from the
"Mangifera Indica" native to the tropics.
It is a soft, solid butter, with a slight sweet scent. It
has emollient properties, high oxidative ability,
wound healing, and regenerative activity.
INCI: Mangifera indica
Suggested Usage Rate: up to 100%
Solubility: Oil
Gently refined
medium/hard butter
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Maria Butter aka White Cocoa Butter
2-3 years +
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Best for dry or combination skin
Oily skin may find it too emollient
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Same properties as cocoa butter except this is deodorized! hard butter |
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Mowrah Butter
1 year
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Any type of skin but especially dry and damaged!
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Mowrah butter is known to prevent drying of the
skin and development of wrinkles. Reduces
degeneration of skin cells and restores
skin flexibility. May enhance stability
of certain emulsion systems.
soft/medium butter
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Sal Butter
2 years
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All skin types
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This Sal Butter is cold pressed and white in color. Used
for all kinds of skin care formulations. This is a hard
butter and will need to be blended with other,
softer butters to create a nice flow.
hard butter
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EAST Shea Butter
1 year
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Any skin type!
Especially great for babys bottom!
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Our East African Shea Butter "Butyrospermum parkii"
is cold pressed. It's unique fatty acid composition
makes it a suitable emollient for many skin-care
applications, such as baby-care products,
massage creams, make-up, and similar
products.
Can be used from 1 - 100%
soft to Medium Hardness and melts on contact with skin
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WEST Shea Butter
2 years
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Any skin type!
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Shea Butter (unrefined) ~ our Shea Butter "Butyrospermum parkii" is cold pressed.
It's unique fatty acid composition makes it a suitable emollient for many
skin-care applications, such as baby-care products, massage creams,
make-up, and similar products. One unique characteristic of Shea
butter is its content of unsaponiables (up to 11%) which imparts
soothing properties and provides extra sun protection.
Can be used anywhere from 1- 100%
much harder than east shea
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Tucuma Butter
2 years
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Any skin type
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INCI: Astrocaryum tucuma
This butter is imported from Brazil. Used for it’s emollient
properties which are very high in myristic, oleic and lquric acid content.
Similar to Murumuru Butter properties
hard butter
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Ucuuba Butter
1 year
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Any skin type
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Amazonian Fruit Butter
Botanical Name: Virola sebifera L.
INCI Name: Virola sebifera seed butter
Origin: Brazil
Ucuuba butter is almost black in colour and may be used for
producing black soaps. This butter smells like BBQ to me...
Insect repellant properties
can be a replacement for lanolin or cocoa butter
crumbly/hard butter
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