Kokum Butter

Kokum Butter, from India, is prized for its essential fatty acid content. One of the most balanced, of all the botanicals, it is the perfect addition to all of your bath and body lotions, creams and butter blends.

Kokum Butter is one of the hardest of the natural butters, with a complex of oleic, palmitic, and stearic acid content, it’s a great addition to products where you’d like to reduce, or avoid, straight fatty acids for better label appeal.

Kokum Butter is well known for it’s emollient, and regenerative, properties making it one of the best choices for damaged skin preparations. One of the most useful butters for inflamed skin preparations and enhanced barrier formation due to the high level of stearic-oleic fatty acids.

Kokum Butter, in formulation, is high enough in fatty acids to improve emulsion stability and offer thickness without stiffness. Perfect for all of your bath and body products.

In hair care Kokum Butter can help to provide essential nutrients to the follicle and scalp, without weighing down the hair.

ATTRIBUTES
*nurtures damaged skin
*soothes inflammed skin
*provides a supple skin feel
*emulsion stabilizer and thickener
*improved barrier for natural hydration

GUIDELINES
*creams and lotions: 2 to 3{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc}
*salves and balms: 10 to 20{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc}
*water in oil (w/o) body butters and creams: 3 to 8{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc}
*conditioners: 1 to 2{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc}

APPLICATIONS
*dry skin therapy
*inflamed skin treatments
*hair conditioners
*body creams, lotions, butters

SPECIFICATIONS
Appearance: Off White / Brittle / Butter / Fat Shavings
Odor: Characteristic / Fatty
Solubility: Oil Miscible
Storage: Tightly Sealed / Protected from Heat / Light
Shelf: 24 Months Properly Handled / Stored

TIPS:;
***Kokum Butter, along with Cocoa and mango butter, is one of the best butters to use for balms, and salves due to their more brittle texture. This helps to create the ever popular gelled texture. Try adding 10{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc} Kokum Butter, and 10{5d4cf967139b57bba3d587f5b418945dd2211b60ad6376ae07117b8ee5044bfc} mango Butter, to your favorite oil blend and you’ll have the perfect salve.

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