Ingredient glossary / Emollient
Cocoa butter
On the label: Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter · Emollient
What it is
The fat of the cacao bean, solid at room temperature and melting on skin; a traditional body balm base with a faint chocolate smell.
Emollients: Emollients fill the gaps between skin cells and leave the surface smooth and soft; oils, butters and esters.
Wikidata: Pale-yellow, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean. Q251106 →
In the research
27 PubMed papers mention it with skin, cosmetics or hair; the three most recent:
- Vegetable Butter-Based Nanocarriers: Do Nanoparticulation and Quercetin Loading Modulate In vitro Cellular Effects Involved in Wound Healing? · AAPS PharmSciTech, 2026
- Effects of a Low-Molecular-Weight Gelator in Vegetable, Mineral Oil and Cocoa Butter: A Comparative Rheological Study · Gels (Basel, Switzerland), 2026
- Cocoa Butter: Evolution from Natural Food Ingredient to Pharmaceutical Excipient and Drug Delivery System · Planta medica, 2024
A paper is a paper, not a verdict: titles are listed so you can read them, and a study on cells or mice says little about a cream on a face.
Products whose label lists it
9 on the siteMatched from the ingredient list the supplier printed; the position in the list (first or thirtieth) is on each product page.
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Other emollients
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