ENVISK Organics/Bio - Certified Natural & Organic Skin Care

Argan Oil	Avocado Oil	Beeswax	Buckwheat Wax	Calendula Extract	Candelilla Wax
Cocoa Butter	Commipheroline	Dictyopteris Oil	D'Orientine	Green Tea Extract	Jojoba Oil
Liftessence	Lily Extract	Macadamia Oil	Myoxinol	Olive Oil	Sesame Oil
Shea Butter (Karite)	Sunflower Oil	Vegetable Glycerine

Cocoa Butter is in:

Volumizing Lip Treatment

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Properties & Benefits

An antioxidant with moisturizing abilities

Cocoa butter (also known as Cacao butter) contains a large number of different antioxidants that act synergistically to present a massive offensive against the free radicals that destroy your skin cells and lead to premature aging.
Free radicals are small molecules forms during the body's metabolism when energy is generated from glucose in the mitochondria of every cell in your body.
Cocoa butter contains a number of different antioxidants that can kill off a wide range of different free radicals and superoxides, including hydrogen peroxide. Vitamin E is a strong antioxidant and can easily kill off hydrogen peroxide and any other oxidizing agent.

It also contains phytochemicals such as flavonoids that are also strong antioxidants. Polyphenols are very effective at neutralizing free radicals, and the cocoa mass polyphenols are particularly effective. In fact, cocoa butter contains a much higher antioxidant concentration.

It has been scientifically proved that cocoa butter will prevent skin degradation due to the harmful effects of the UV light in the rays of the sun - UV radiation generates free radicals that are very effective at destroying skin.

Cocoa butter contains minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, copper and iron, all of which are in a highly bioavailable form that render them more effective.

The moisturizing abilities of cocoa butter are frequently recommended for prevention of stretch marks in pregnant women, treatment of chapped skin and lips, and as a daily moisturizer to prevent dry, itchy skin. However, despite such recommendations, the largest clinical study regarding the effects of cocoa butter on stretch marks in pregnant women found that it had no more discernible effect than did a placebo.
The fact that it is a natural preservative and has a faintly pleasant aroma further lends benefits to its cosmetic uses.

Pure Cocoa butter is also attributed for helping skin in diminish burn marks and making scars less visible over a short time.

Cocoa Butter

Cocoa bean (also cacao bean) is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter are extracted.
A cocoa pod (fruit) has a rough leathery rind about 3 cm thick. It is filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and pale pink or lavender in color. Seeds usually are white, becoming violet or reddish brown during the drying process. The exception is rare varieties of white cacao, in which the seeds remain white.