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Cocoa Butter

Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter · Theobroma Cacao Seed ButterBarrier

Saturated-fat butter from cocoa beans. Rich emollient for body care; flagged comedogenic on facial skin.

What it does

Cocoa butter is high in saturated fatty acids (palmitic, stearic, oleic). It's a classic body-care emollient and a popular ingredient in body butters, lip balms, and pregnancy stretch-mark products. On facial skin it's one of the more frequently flagged comedogenic ingredients. The pregnancy stretch-mark evidence is largely anecdotal — moisturization helps with itching, but the actual stretch-mark prevention claim is weaker than the marketing suggests.

The evidence, graded

emergingSome occlusives (cocoa butter, coconut oil, isopropyl myristate, certain plant butters) can be comedogenic on acne-prone skin. Lighter occlusives (squalane, mineral oil, hyaluronic acid, glycerin) are generally non-comedogenic in published data.Kligman 1972 · Archives of Dermatology ↗

Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.

Pairs worth knowing

Shea Butter · works together ↗Vitamin E (Tocopherol) · works together ↗

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