Natural Cocoa Butter is used in lotions, lip balms, creams, and soap making. It is a brownish tan color and it is a very hard solid oil.

It is brittle in its texture in normal room temperature. Because of cocoa butter's high melting point, many recipes call for cocoa butter in order to harden up the recipe, whether it be a lip balm, solid lotion or a soap. Adding cocoa butter to a recipe is a natural way to stiffen up a lip balm or harden up a soap from scratch.

The main reason to add cocoa butter to a recipe is to get its rich qualities as an oil. Some people like to use cocoa butter as a tanning oil. You can rub it directly on the skin.