Cocoa butter
Known for its creamy texture and subtle chocolate aroma, cocoa butter is a natural powerhouse when it comes to skin nourishment. Extracted from the same cacao beans used to make chocolate, this rich, plant-based butter is high in fatty acids and antioxidants — making it a hero ingredient for dry, irritated, or sensitive skin.
At Made in Hemp, we use cocoa butter in our body butters and healing balms to provide long-lasting moisture, help protect the skin barrier, and give our formulations that decadent, velvety feel.
What Is Cocoa Butter?
Cocoa butter is the fat extracted from roasted cacao beans, typically through cold pressing or mechanical expelling. It’s solid at room temperature, but melts beautifully into the skin upon contact, making it an ideal ingredient for skincare products like:
Body butters
Balms
Lip care
It’s packed with naturally occurring nutrients including:
Stearic, oleic & palmitic acids – deeply moisturising and protective
Vitamin E – antioxidant and skin-healing
Polyphenols – known for improving skin tone and elasticity
Skin Benefits of Cocoa Butter
Cocoa butter’s rich fatty acid profile and natural emollient properties give it a wide range of skincare benefits:
Deeply moisturises and softens dry or rough skin
Strengthens the skin barrier and prevents moisture loss
Soothes and protects skin prone to irritation or environmental stress
Improves skin elasticity – popular in stretch mark and scar-reducing products
Contains antioxidants that help fight free radical damage
It’s especially loved by people with dry, flaky, or sensitive skin — or anyone who wants a rich, nourishing treat for their body.
Why We Use Cocoa Butter
We choose cocoa butter because:
It provides a protective, breathable layer over the skin
It offers long-lasting hydration without greasiness
It enhances the creamy texture and luxurious feel of our formulas
It complements other botanicals like hemp seed oil, macadamia oil, and beeswax to create deeply nurturing skin treatments
The subtle, natural chocolate aroma is also a welcome bonus — no synthetic fragrances needed.
Where You’ll Find It
Cocoa butter is featured in:
Our Gym Junkie, Lavender and Vanilla Body Butters – providing a rich, skin-softening base
Healing Balm – for barrier repair and dry, cracked skin
Lip Balm – for smooth, protective moisture
Skin Types That Benefit
Dry or flaky skin needing intensive moisture
Sensitive skin prone to irritation
Mature skin that needs elasticity support
Anyone who loves rich, chocolate-scented indulgence (naturally!)
Cocoa butter is one of nature’s most indulgent gifts to skincare — rich, protective, and absolutely luxurious. At Made in Hemp, we use it not just for its hydrating power, but for the sensory comfort it brings to your daily ritual.
It helps our formulations glide on like silk, sink in deeply, and leave your skin feeling nourished, protected, and softly scented by nature.
Wrap your skin in the rich, chocolatey comfort of cocoa butter. Explore our body butters, balms, and lip care range — naturally hydrating, gently scented, and crafted to soothe.
