Found some cocoa butter today

[ilovedoxies]

in the ethnic section at the Dollar General for 1.25 an ounce.

Do you melt it w/your oils or add it at trace?

TIA!
B

 

[digit]

Wow......that is expensive! :shock: Anywho, I melt it gently along with my other solid oils.

Digit

 

[ilovedoxies]

It is?!?! It was 2.99 at Hobby Lobby

 

[Deda]

I get it at Columbus Foods - it's a little more than $5.00 per lb.

 

[digit]

I have purchased from a couple of suppliers. Good butter for about $8-9 a pound. Co-op even less. But the first time I bought a "stick" in the beauty dept to try at about $1 for less than an ounce.

We used to slather it on and bake in the sun. Now, many years later, we slather it on to counter act the damage.

Digit

 

[AshleyR]

Don't mean to hijack but I have a little question about cocoa butter...

I have seen it in a tub at Shoppers Drug Mart, the brand is Queen Helene's. It's not the cream kind (they have a stretch mark cocoa butter cream - it's not that), but there are other things in it. It is not "straight" cocoa butter.

Anyway, it's reeeeally thick, but not totally solid like I have seen cocoa butter for sale on soap supply sites. It has mineral oil, beeswax, paraffin, cocoa seed butter, sodium borate, lanolin, and stearyl alchohol in it.

Can you use this stuff in soap making?

 

[PixiesPlayhouse]

Anyway, it's reeeeally thick, but not totally solid like I have seen cocoa butter for sale on soap supply sites. It has mineral oil, beeswax, paraffin, cocoa seed butter, sodium borate, lanolin, and stearyl alchohol in it.

Can you use this stuff in soap making?

I am a newbie.....so I could be way off.

I wouldn't use it. Mineral oil will not saponify. Also I *think* alcohol reacts horribly to lye........