Reviews on Rainforest Chica Etsy Shop!

• "Fast shipper. Received butter sampler within a few days. I like that the butters are wild harvested and fair traded. Intend to use the butters in my diy hair and/or body butter mixes. Will definitely purchase again from vendor to lend my support to the rainforests of the Amazon"

• "Amazing price and super fast shipping for a great passion fruit oil! I will definitely be ordering again"

• " Amazing seller, great communication and awesome products. Thank you so much" - Buriti Oil

• " This butter is AMAZING! It moisturizes my hair so well and actually absorbs into my hair easier than other butters I've tried. Thanks so much!" - Muru Muru Butter

• "i ordered it to experience differently than usual butter like cocoa butter, shea butter or coconut butter/oil that i use on my skin or hair. I am not sure how it is, i have not tried it yet but by how she detailed it in every conversation she is very great...it sound like a great butter for hair/skin. I love etsy seller that is upfront with honesty convesation and talking detailed enuff for you know abt them. She also has blog so i can look abt them...great! A plusssss"

• " thanks! i am gotta use it as hot treatment, in hair or skin mixture and etc. i like idea that her oils are unrefined. may order again... i am fan! god packaging and everything as stated" - Babassu

• "Fabulous butter! Glides smoothly on the skin and easily melts in hand! Will be back for more!" - Cupuacu Butter

• "absolutely wonderful!!!! extremely fast delivery! it feels and smells delicious! Got for my dog who is undergoing radiation and got horribly burnt and crusty skin. This butter is just awesome! She is having to share with me :-) Thank you Chrys!!!!"

• "Great stuff Really absorbent. Love it!" Pracaxi Oil

• "I love this stuff!!!! it absorbs really well into my skin!!!!" Buriti Oil

• "Thank you, fast shipping, great communication and customer service. Good products. Carol" - Pracaxi Oil

• "Very nice oils, with the butters this gone be be an awesome cream and lotion. I am all excited to create the excotic miracle. Thank you so much for the infos and advice! Definitely will be back, thanks again." - Oil Sampler

• "Great Butters, great addition to any base for your DIY projects. Thank you so much, also for the great tips and communications." - Butter Sampler

• "I plan on ordering more!!!! I love this stuff!!! and it melts great!!" Cupuacu Butter

• "Fast shipping, super high quality oil and smell delicious! Thanks a bunch!" - Passion Fruit

• "Perfect transaction, nice seller and efficacious butter" Get Whipped Body Butter

• "The butters and oils are sooo ..... good I love it when I braid and on natural hair. I use the oils for deep conditioning on my Caucasians clients or even the butter when I melt it for deep conditioning. The clients hair came out wonderful. Thanks to your butters and oils."

• "This stuff is AWESOME! My hair is crazy, curly, crunchy, and frizzy from being in the sun and salt water all day every day. But a little of this melts in my hands and then rubbed through my hair turns it into silk, gets rid of the frizz, and best yet doesn't make it greasy or heavy and defines the curl! It's the perfect product and I am the hair product junkie! For me to be able to get out of the shower and apply one product to my hair instead of 3 and go about my business is life changing. And then there's the fact that's it's all natural...it just doesn't get any better." - Get Whipped Hair Butter

• "I'd never heard of MuruMuru butter before, but I thought I would give it a try. Incredibly moisturizing with a very natural smell that I find very appealing (kinda a mix between coffee and chocolate). I'm looking forward to adding it to my lotions." - Muru Muru Butter

• "The butter shipped same day I ordered, it arrived quickly and appeared exactly as pictured. The butter itself is probably the highest quality cupuacu I've come across. Love it! I will be buying more in the future." - Cupuacu Butter

• "it ship manner timely. Good informative as asked. I ask her for infornations on it as I can't log on blog often, she printed out for me! Nice sweet lady..." - Tucuma Butter

• "I am looking forward to make more of those exotic butters in haircare and skincare both rather than ordinary butter. I rather buy more from her, she is good and real deal than any herb or vitamin online I compare to. Ebay is higher too!" - Cupuacu Butter

Ucuuba Butter - Benefits and Uses

Ucuuba Butter - Baboonwood (Virola surinamensis, Myristicaceae) is light brown with golden specks, it has a sweet beeswax smell. It has a very high melting point - 127.4  °F.

Unrefined Ucuuba Butter

BENEFITS
Ucuuba Butter is said to have anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties and is ideal for treating acne, eczema and dry or irritated skin. Exceptionally rich in essential fatty acids, Ucuuba Butter is considered to have anti-aging properties and can be used to replenish tone and moisture to dry and mature skin. Ucuuba Butter is ideal for making pomades, creams, lotions, body butters and other skin care formulations where emollience is desired. Due to its dark brown color, this butter can be used to produce richly colored dark soaps. It can be also used, in combination with other ingredients, for producing vegetable candles.

Recommended Usage
• Body Butters & Creams: 3 - 13 %
• Bar Soaps: 5 - 20 %
• Pomades: 5 - 20 %

My Ucuuba butter comes straight from Brazil and is sold in 2 oz. and 4 oz. stand up sealed pouches. I do accept custom orders!  I also have a Butter Sampler, 1 oz each of Bacuri, Cupuacu, Muru Muru, Ucuuba and Tucuma.

My oils and butters are are wild harvested grown naturally in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest without any pesticides, they are fair trade and self sustainable.
Buy it HERE!

Andiroba Oil - Ecology and Popular Uses

Andiroba Oil - Crabwood (Carapa guianensis, Meliáceae)

POPULAR USES

Andiroba oil is one of the most commonly sold medicinal oils in the Amazon. Mixed with honey and copaiba, it is a very popular anti-inflammatory medication used to combat throat infections and influenza. It also strengthens and embellishes hair, and when used in soap it acts as a magic remedy for acne. Due to its good skin penetration, it is often used in massages to relieve bruises, dislocations, arthritis and rheumatism, and acts to sooth the surface of the skin and to bleach superficial stains. It is also used to repel mosquitoes. Traditionally, an oilseed cake is formed into balls and burned and also mixed with annatto (Bixa orellana) and formed into a paste that is used to protect the body from mosquito bites.

ECOLOGY

This species is a neotropical tree that occurs in southern Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, and the Caribbean islands. In Brazil, it is found from sea level to 350 m elevation, throughout the Amazon basin, both in terra firme forests and on land that is temporarily flooded, along rivers and streams and near the mangroves. The seeds float and can be dispersed by water. However, in forests, most fruits and seeds are found under the parent tree. The seeds are eaten by rodents, armadillos, peccaries, pacas, deer, cotias, etc. The origin of the name andiroba is from nhandi (oil) and rob (bitter). Andiroba belongs to the same family as the mahogany and cedar tree, and is highly demanded by sawmills because it is very resistant to insect attacks.

IIndividuals of andiroba can reach 30 meters in height and grow well to different environments, such as flooded areas and terra firme. A mature tree can produce up to 120 kg of seeds per year (average 50 kg / year and tree). The seeds contain 43% fat. To produce a liter of oil, using rudimentary methods, 12 kg of seeds are needed. To extract the same amount, a mechanical press requires only 4 kg of dry seeds and only 3 kg of seeds are needed when using chemical solvents. The amount of oil that can be produced from the seeds of one andiroba tree can reach 10 liters per year, using rudimentary methods, and up to 30 liters using industrial techniques.

Due to its ability to grow rapidly and because of its valuable timber, andiroba is used in intercropped and agroforestry systems. Plantations in monoculture are compromised by Hypsipyla grandella, which attacks the terminal bud of the tree and inhibits further growth. This insect is a major pest of species of Meliaceae in the Amazon region. Although this has consequences when cultivating the tree for its wood, fruit production remains the same for individuals that survive an attack, which is not as intense as attacks on mahogany.

GET IT AT OUR ETSY STORE!

Soap Making with Exotic Oils and Butters - calculator and tips.

  There are a lot of sites teaching the art of soap making. And with a little practice and creativity it is not hard to forget the basic coconut, olive and palm oil recipe and start customizing your soaps, incorporating different, more exotic, ingredients.

 First you need to figure out the properties you want your soap to have, you want a soap for sensitive skin? Eczema? Hair? Dogs? Guys? Clothes?

 Then you need to find the mix of oils and butters that will offer that property and will be the right balance to meet all the Soap Qualities: hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather, creamy lather and conditioning.

 To read more about fatty acids and soap qualities visit this site. 

 If you know the Physical-Chemical Data of each oil and butter you should be able to incorporate any oil into a recipe, but calculating the lye amount and the fatty acids and their properties requires more math than I am feel comfortable suggesting you do...

 Many sites offer lye calculators, not many include the more exotic rainforest oils and butters. But I found a few that do have some of them.

1. Majestic Mountain Sage has Babassu, Cupuacu and Passion Fruit.

2. Soap Calc has Andiroba, Babassu, Cupuacu, Muru Muru, Tucuma and Ucuuba.

3. From Nature With Love gives you Acai, Andiroba, Babassu, Brazil Nut, Buriti, Cupuacu (refined though) and Passion Fruit.

 Then, of course the few tips, all based on common sense, but we all know that common sense just isn't! So before playing Mad Scientist:

• Get gloves and protective eyewear, all is fun and games until we go blind!

•  You will be playing with lye! Use bowls that won't react to it: strong plastic, stainless steel, glass, enamel. No that bowl you mix your pancakes just won't do!

• Same go for mixing spoons, measuring spoons and spatulas. Get at least one heat resistant mixing spoon for water/lye mix and another to combine the elements. Many people use electric stick blender, it saves you time and energy. 

• An accurate scale for measuring liquids.

• Two accurate candy or meat thermometers for determining the temperature of your liquids.

• If you use wood or cardboard molds, line it with waxed or greased paper.

• Have plenty of rags or paper towels to wipe up spills.

 

 Also don't forget that making soap for yourself or for sale should be a fun and creative process, which according to my soap making friends, comes when you get a little more experienced. Maybe start experiencing with smaller batches before you go full blown industrial scale!!

 Good luck and if you want to make a soap that is a bit more exotic and expensive, you can find fresh, self sustainable, fair trade Rainforest Oils and Butters at my Etsy shop - RainforestChica.

Rainforest Chica Get Whipped Hair Butter

 

There is no way you won't get whipped by this 100% natural (no BS, 100% active ingredients, 100% organic and/or wild harvested, nothing made up in a lab) hair butter.

It comes in a recyclable tin can that can have many uses after you are done with this butter.

You just have to use a little tiny bit. This whipped butter is very light, and not too greasy. It can be used as pre-wash treatment, leave in conditioner, deep treatment (on wet hair with help of heat) and to tame frizzy hair flyaways.

Handmade with love using 100% Active Ingredients, (nothing is added just for volume or any other reason that is not protecting and feeding your skin,) that are 100% Organic and/or Wild Harvested.
It has been tested only on our human friends and they all look great.
Net weight 4 oz.


The Amazon butters and oils have been tested by generation's of rainforest's indigenous and local people. They are used for cooking, baking, healing, moisturizing and protecting against the elements.

When we consume Amazon's self-sustainable products we give the local people an alternative to logging and farming which are the two largest responsible factors of the deforestation of such an important ecosystem.


MURUMURU Butter - (Astrocaryum murumurú,Arecaceae)
This Butter is rich in lauric, myristic, oleic acid and Pro-Vitamin A. It is a powerful skin barrier repair agent and an excellent natural moisturizer.

CUPUAÇU Butter - (Theobroma Grandiflorum, Malvaceae)
It has very high water absorption capacity (over 200% greater than lanolin). Due to its capacity for water absorption and the ability to obstruct the evaporation of moisture from the hair, Cupuaçu butter restores the hairs's natural humidity and elasticity.
Contains phytosterols (particularly beta-sitosterol) which help regulate water balance and lipid layer of hair.

BABASSU Oil - this oil does amazing things for the hair. It’s being added to shampoo bars and gives curly hairs magnificent strength and elasticity from the roots down to the tips. It also acts like an exfoliator by removing hair product residues from each hair strand leaving hair shiny and full of life.

PRACAXI Oil - Pracachy (Pentaclethra macroloba, Leguminosae-Mimosoideae) - When applied to hair care products, it provides an excellent conditioning effect, eases combing, and enhances hair smoothness and shine.



100% Active Ingredients.
100% Organic and/or Wild Harvested Ingredients.

MuruMuru Butter, Cupuaçu Butter, Pracaxi Oil, Babassu Oil.

 For sale at www.rainforestchica.etsy.com, in 1oz or 4 oz metal containers.