It’s not something new using plant oil for skincare. While most girls are used to apply oil directly as daily moisturiser, plant butter is another option for the advanced users. The most popular butter as moisturiser must be shea butter.
Thanks to the big skincare brand Loccitane, who introduced shea butter years ago in multi products for from head to toe. Shea butter became well known as the most effective yet affordable skincare. It is considered the most easily absorbed of its kind, claimed it could be applied easily on everywhere after melting the butter on hands.
Aside from the entire line of Loccitane shea butter skincare purchased by my sister, which I fell allergic on every item, I have purchased a jar of pure shea butter few years ago (a huge jar, 150ml maybe). Unfortunately it didn’t fit with the humid climate of my city, the layer it created on skin was just too thick that it made my face skin could not breath. Also tried using it as body butter but the consistency was still too thick to spread evenly. It ended up to be my lip balm and elbow softener. As you could imagine, 150ml for lip balm lasts for ages, I failed to consume even 1/10 jar until it expired (observed color change and strong odor of oxidised oil).
I purchased another butter recently, this time the cocoa. Cocoa butter is less popular in skincare but it appears as a hardener in soap making quite often, especially favoured by the Taiwainese soap makers. It costs me like price of 2 ice creams for a small stick (28g, 1oz).
When I open the packing I was surprised by its adorable smell, it is literally the same smell of our chocolate candies. But wait, the texture is exacly like a block of chocolate too! Much harder than the shea butter. Even the hardest lip balm I owned could not compare. And it is nearly colorless, or one may say it is in sheer color. I tried apply on hand palm, it could not be absorbed at all, leaving a thin sticky layer. I think as a moisture barrier it works well. And also works well in attracting all the dirts in the air around me! Even worse, with its dumb packing I cannot use it as a lip balm… As there is no locking mechanism in the tube container.
I finally think of a way to consume this cocoa butter skick. I applied it on my leather shoes! Then used a clean and dry cotton cloth fairly wipe away the exceeded butter over. Ended up I was failed to spread it evenly again. Though it appears colorless, when apply on shoes it darken a bit the color of the leather. The uneveness caused by my poor craftmanship resulted some barely noticable strokes. But leather would heal itself over time, I am not worried about it. Now I have got 2 pairs of chocolate flavoured and kind-to-skin touch of shoes. I think this application consumed like, only 1.5 to 2 grams of the stick. I will try harder next time.
Some photos to show you the result. The right hand side ones are applied with cocoa butter.
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