Raw Cocoa Butter · Pure Unrefined · Wholesale

From cocoa pod to skincare butter, the unrefined way

Cocoa butter is the natural fat extracted from cacao beans. In its raw form, it is solid at room temperature, melts at body heat (around 35°C), and carries the unmistakable warm aroma of real chocolate. Industrially, this aroma is considered a problem: it interferes with cosmetic fragrancing. So most large processors deodorise the butter, often bleaching it in the same step. The result is white, neutral, odourless, and stripped of the unsaponifiables, vitamins, and polyphenols that make cocoa butter genuinely useful for skin.

Our cocoa butter is processed differently. The beans are fermented and sun-dried in the traditional way, then mechanically pressed at low temperature to extract the butter without solvents, deodorisation, or bleaching. The butter that comes out is yellow to ivory-coloured, fragrant, and rich in oleic acid, stearic acid, and palmitic acid, the fatty acids that give cocoa butter its legendary occlusive moisturising properties. It also retains vitamin E and a measurable level of polyphenols (plant antioxidants) that refined butter loses entirely.

What raw, unrefined cocoa butter does for skin

Cocoa butter has been used for skincare on every continent that has ever known chocolate. The traditional uses converge on the same set of properties: deeply moisturising, barrier-repairing, soothing for irritated or dry skin, and useful for stretch marks during pregnancy. The science largely confirms what tradition figured out by trial and error.

The fatty acid profile of cocoa butter, dominated by oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids, makes it an excellent occlusive: it forms a thin protective film on the skin that slows water loss without clogging pores aggressively. The natural polyphenols (preserved in raw, unrefined butter) add a measurable antioxidant component. And the vitamin E content contributes to the butter’s shelf stability and to its role in supporting healthy skin barrier function.

What real, raw Ivorian cocoa butter gives you

• Raw and unrefined. Yellow to ivory in colour, with the natural aroma of real cocoa. If your cocoa butter is bone-white and odourless, it has been deodorised and bleached, ours has not.
• Single-origin from Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s largest cocoa producer.
• Mechanically pressed at low temperature, no solvent extraction, no Dutch processing. Preserves polyphenols, vitamin E, and full fatty-acid profile.
• Versatile. Daily moisturiser, body butter base, lip balm ingredient, formulation base for DIY skincare and natural cosmetics.
• Phytosanitary certificate issued for every export shipment, as required by international plant-product regulation.
• From cooperative smallholders, not industrial plantations, and a portion of every order contributes to community development work in our producer regions.