Description

Kokum Butter, 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 obtained from the fruit of the kokum, or “kokam,” tree (Garcinia indica), grown in the central east region of India. A butter is extracted from the fruit kernels and further processed and refined to obtain an off-white butter of mild odor, suitable for cosmetics and toiletries. Its triglyceride composition is uniform, and consists of up to 80% of stearic-oleic-stearic (SOS) triglycerides. It is solid at room temperature but slowly melts on contact with the skin, producing a non-oily and non-greasy emolliency, making it ideal for lipsticks and balms.

Kokum Butter is one of the hardest of the natural butters, with a complex 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.

It is the most stable and hard vegetable butter known. Kokum butter is also known for its high levels of vitamin E and antioxidants. It has a high oxidative stability and known to be a high quality moisturizer.

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.

In formulation, kokum butter 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.

INCI: Garcinia indica (Kokum) Butter

Physical Appearance: White to off-white soft brittle/ crumbly butter with a mild to neutral odor

Manufacturers Recommended Usage: 2 – 100% . Use in lotions, creams, color cosmetics, hair masks, masks, hair styling products, balms, body scrubs and polishes, soaps, lip balms.

When adding butters to creams and lotions, it might be necessary to gently warm in a heat-proof  jar on low heat or in a bain marie (To preserve its nutritive properties) before incorporating into the final product. As with most raw materials, results may vary, we strongly recommend small batch testing prior to any commercial manufacturing.

Common Uses/Benefits

Kokum butter is used as a moisturizer and carrier in the cosmetic industry, because it has good penetrating properties leaving the most dry and sensitive skin smooth and relieved. It has excellent emollient quality. It is noted for improving and restoring smoothness, suppleness and softness to the skin.

Kokum butter is one of the most stable and hardest vegetable butters known and exhibits excellent emollient properties. High oxidative stability makes Kokum butter a great ingredient to help stabilize emulsions, it is a great replacement for many synthetic emollient enhancers.

It prevents drying of the skin and development of wrinkles, reduces degeneration of skin cells and restores skin flexibility. It is commonly used as a substitute for Cocoa butter due to its uniform triglyceride composition. It’s commonly used as a thickener for lotions, creams and body butters, as well as soaps and cosmetics.

Please note that Kokum butter by nature is a dry and flaky butter. This dry and flaky appearance causes many to think that the butter has gone bad, but this is a natural

Kokum Butter, blended with cocoa and cupuacu butters, is one of the best butters to use for balms, and salves due to their more brittle/ crumbly texture. This helps to create the ever popular gelled texture. Try adding 10% Kokum butter, and 10% cupuacu butter, to your favorite oil blend and you’ll have the perfect salve.

BENEFITS

• Nurtures damaged skin
• Soothes inflammed skin
• Provides a supple skin feel
• Emulsion stabilizer and thickener
• Improved barrier for natural hydration
• Improved moisture content balancing
• Emollient
• Feel modification/enhancement
• Moisturizing agent
• Natural product
• Plant derived / Vegetal based
• Skin hydration agent

Recommended Storage: Body butters are ideally stored in a refrigerator to maintain its texture. It will become soft in warmer temperatures. Store in air tight containers; in a cool dry area; away from direct sunlight.

Shelf Life: Typical shelf life is about 2yrs when stored properly. store in cool temperatures (below 25 °C) away from light and moisture in an air-tight container.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a cosmetic ingredient and it is meant for external use only in cosmetic formulations. It should not be ingested. Product image and packaging shown above is a general representation of product. Product colour may vary and packaging available may be different. Our products are for external use only, unless otherwise indicated. This information is for information purposes and not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.