Cocoa butter crystals and tempering?

[aimee]

I bought some cocoa butter (I think it is slightly refined) and tried making a body butter with 20g cocoa butter and 60g olive oil. At first it looked ok but a couple of days later and now it seems to have tiny lumpy crystals of cocoa butter in it. I did a search on google and found that it needs to be 'tempered' but I don't know what this means.
What I did was heat the cocoa butter and oil together until it all melted. So can anyone tell me know to do it right?
Cheers!

 

[pepperi27]

tempering means heating up the butters at certain temperatures and keep it at that temp for a however long it takes to melt but I've never had a problem with cocoa butter. Check out this page on brambeberry and scroll down to cocoa butter.

http://www.brambleberry.com/oils.html

 

[aimee]

Thank you, that is very helpful

 

[pepperi27]

Thank you too cause I forgot about that. Out of habit of using it for so long I just normally heat it up for a short period of time and thats it.