Raw Cocoa Butter – Pure hydration for natural skin Indulge your skin with our quality raw cocoa butter, a natural moisturizer. Harvested from cocoa beans, our butter is unrefined, so it retains all its nourishing properties.
Key benefits :
– Cocoa butter penetrates deep into the skin, moisturizing and nourishing even the driest areas.
– It can be used as a daily moisturizer, in homemade skincare recipes or to enhance your favorite lotions and creams.
Cocoa butter is pure, raw and free from additives or preservatives.
It is carefully processed to preserve its natural qualities.
Ingredients: 100% raw cocoa butter Directions for use : Apply a small amount of butter to clean, dry skin and massage gently until absorbed.
Direct from Ivory Coast · The skincare side of cocoa
Why our Raw Cocoa Butter comes from Côte d’Ivoire
Most “cocoa butter” sold for skincare is highly refined, deodorised, and stripped of the natural compounds that gave the beans their value in the first place. Ours isn’t. It is raw, unrefined, and pressed from Theobroma cacao beans grown by smallholder cooperatives in the world’s largest cocoa-producing country.
Same Côte d’Ivoire supply chain as our cocoa powder same partner cooperatives, same direct relationship.
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.
From cooperative smallholders, not industrial plantations
Côte d’Ivoire produces around 40–45% of the world’s cocoa about 2 million tonnes of beans per year. About 7% of those exports leave the country as cocoa butter rather than as raw beans, and almost all of that volume is industrially processed for the European confectionary market.
Our supply is different. Our partner cooperatives in southern and western Côte d’Ivoire keep beans aside specifically for artisanal pressing, with low-temperature mechanical extraction designed to preserve the cosmetic properties of the butter rather than maximise yield. This is why the butter you receive looks and smells the way it does because it has not been mistreated.
By buying directly from the cooperative network rather than from a European processor, we ensure that more of the value flows back to the farmers who actually grow the cacao trees. A portion of every order contributes to the broader humanitarian work Essential Care Plus funds in our partner communities.
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.
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