Cocoa Butter is a solid, off-white butter that is extracted from the beans of the Theobroma Cacao plant.
A few of Cocoa Butter's qualities are as follows:
You can use from 5 - 15% cocoa butter in a soap recipe but try not to use more or the bar may be too hard and brittle.
The chart below shows the approximate percentages of fatty acids present in Cocoa Butter. This oil is great to add to soap since not only does it lend hardness to your bar but it also provides a stable, conditioning lather.
| Lauric | Myristic | Palmitic | Stearic | Ricinoleic | Oleic | Linoleic | Linolenic |
| 28 | 33 | 35 | 3 | ||||
| Hardness | |||||||
| Cleansing | |||||||
| Full Lather | F/L | ||||||
| Stable Lather | |||||||
| Conditioning | |||||||
This information is provided for reference use only and is not meant to substitute the advice of a licensed health care professional.