How To Use Our Butters

BACURI BUTTER

Unrefined Bacuri Butter has a strong, unusual scent - kinda like the smell of forest soil - some people love it, a few don't care for it, the scent dissipates fast though. Bacuri's color varies from lighter to very dark brown and the texture can be very smooth (sometimes a little liquid-ish) to harder and crumbly. 

Bacuri gives your skin a beautiful natural glow, it makes the skin's appearance more even and, with long term use, it helps to diminish the appearance of hyper-pigmention and scars. You just need to melt the butter in your hands and spread it all over, remember: a little bit goes a long way and it will stain light fabrics before it is fully absorbed.

In Brazil this butter is widely used to help with skin conditions and as a massage butter for arthritis, rheumatism and muscle pain. It is also a wonderful Summer butter with sunblock and after sun care properties.

This butter can be used for hair care, I recommend it for darker hair, it is a great butter to protect your hair against external agents and for masks.

Due to its dark color and strong scent, it is not a very easy butter to incorporate into your body and skin formulations, but you definitely should try it, Bacuri has a very high absorption rate due to its high level of tripalmitine (50 to 55%), it also has a high level of palmitoleic fatty acid compared to the other butters which makes it a fantastic emollient.

CUPUACU BUTTER

Unrefined Cupuacu Butter has a very pleasant scent - similar to cocoa butter but fresher and fruitier - the color varies from light to darker yellow and the texture can be very smooth or a bit crumbly. 

Cupuacu is perfect to be used pure on skin as a daily moisturizer due to its capacity to absorb water -  240% superior of lanolin - just rub the butter in your hands until melted and spread it all over, remember: a little bit goes a long way and give it a little time to be absorbed. A great way to use it is right after the shower when your body is still a little wet.

This butter is also wonderful for hair care, it can be used as a pre-poo treatment, as conditioner and leave-in - since it ABSORBS water it works better for dry, thicker hair types- curls, kinks or straight. It is perfect for African American hair styles, helping to keep hair and scalp healthy. To be used as a conditioner or leave-in just melt a little bit in your hands, for masks or treatments melt a larger amount of it in the microwave or even in a closed container under hot water.

Cupuacu is perfect for soap making, lip, hair and skin formulations, due to its beautiful color and scent, it is very easy to use. For colder weather you can whip it to make it easier to apply.

MURUMURU BUTTER

Unrefined Murumuru Butter has a pleasant subtle nutty scent, the color varies from off white to yellow and the texture is waxy. 

Even though this is a harder butter, Murumuru is perfect to be used pure on skin since it is not greasy, absorbs super fast and has a subtle scent. It is a great butter for all skin types, even sensitive and oily skin. In Brazil this butter is prized by its antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties being used to help relief skin conditions like acne and psoriasis.

This butter is also wonderful for hair care, the high levels of lauric fatty acid make this butter a vegetable replacement for mineral silicone, it forms a protective film on skin and hair without harming the lipid exchange or clogging pores. Murumuru is a perfect finishing touch for fine hair prone to frizz and flyaways, it can be used as a hair glossier, a leave-in, and to protect hair from heat damage. To be used as a conditioner or leave-in just melt a little bit in your hands, for masks or treatments melt a larger amount of it on the microwave or even in a closed container under hot water.

Murumuru is good for soap making, and perfect for lip, hair and skin formulations, due to its beautiful color and scent, it is very easy to use. For colder weather you can whip it to make it easier to apply.

TUCUMA BUTTER

Unrefined Tucuma Butter has a sweet caramel/coffee/nutty scent that depending on area and season of production can be more subtle or more prominent, the color varies from light yellow to yellow and the texture is soft.

Tucuma and Murumuru butters have very similar properties, Tucuma is softer therefore easier to be applied alone on skin and hair, the feeling is little greasier. Tucuma is also a great butter for all skin types, forming a protective film on skin without clogging the pores.

Just like Murumuru, this butter is also wonderful for hair care, with the same high levels of lauric fatty acid, it can be used just like murumuru, how to choose? Tucuma is softer which makes it easier to use on cold climates, but it is also greasier and has a stronger scent.

Tucuma is good for soap making, lip, hair and skin formulations, due to its light color and nice scent, it is easily incorporated in DIY, all natural formulations.

UCUUBA BUTTER

Unrefined Ucuuba Butter has a strong scent that could be described as a "smoky beeswax", the color varies from golden brown to brown, this butter is VERY hard and it can be used as a vegan substitute for beeswax in recipes that need to be firmer - lip products, salves and balms.

This butter is too hard to be applied straight on skin or hair, it needs to be used as a blend with oils or much softer butters, a super quick recipe for body would be whipping 50% ucuuba and 50% oil, for maximun results I recommend one of my amazing oils but whatever good quality, unrefined oil you have handy in the kitchen will work too - coconut, olive or grape seed. In Brazil this butter is prized by its antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and healing properties. 

For a simple and fast lip or cuticle protective balm melt 70% ucuuba with 30% oils.

This butter is also wonderful for hair and scalp care, but again, it needs to be blended.

Ucuuba is perfect for soap making for its properties and beautiful color, it is ideal for shampoo bars. In Brazil it is widely used in the production of artisanal candles. Soaps and creams made with ucuuba show a proven anti-inflammatory effect, and have healing and anti-

Cupuaçu Butter - Uses and Benefits

Cupuacu has a distinctive smell, like a fruity chocolate. 
It goes from light yellow to yellow, it does not feel very heavy upon application and it is softer than it's cousin, cocoa butter.
It is a natural, plant based, alternative to lanolin, offering the capacity to attract 240% more water allowing it to function much more effectively as a skin hydrator and plumper.

Unrefined Cupuacu butter

ATTRIBUTES
Anti-Oxidants Protect against Environmental Damage
Restructuring Activity on Tissues
Natural Sun Protection
Improves Skin Moisture Levels
Improved Elasticity
Anti-Inflammatory

Guidelines:

creams and lotions: 2 to 5%
salves and balms: 2 to 20%
w/o body butters and creams: 2 to 10%
conditioners: 1 to 3%

My Cupuacu butter comes straight from Brazil and, for now, is sold in 2oz resealable ouches. I do accept custom orders!  I also have a Butter Sampler, 1 oz each of Muru Muru, Cupuaçu, Tucuma, Ucuuba and Bacuri butters.

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.

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Butters - Quick look at Bacuri, Cupuacu, Muru Muru, Tucuma and Ucuuba.

 BACURI BUTTER
 I am huge fan of this butter! But it is not a beautiful butter and it does have an earthy smell that some people don't like, it does not linger though. It is soft and if you want your final product to be very light, you have to be careful with this butter. I don't even mix it, I use it pure on my skin, it makes your skin shimmer and can be used as a natural light bronzer.
The butter is absorbed quickly and leaves a velvety feeling on the skin.

 

MURUMURU BUTTER
This butter goes from a very light yellow to a greish beige. It's scent is delicious, it is a bit of white chocolate with whiffs of coffee!
It has a waxy, firm appearance in room temperature, its melting point is 32.5° C. When it is refrigerated it becomes brittle.
It tastes like nutty butter. Perfect for hair or skin whipped butters.

CUPUAÇU BUTTER
This butter varies from a creamy white to a light yellow. It has a very typical fruity odor some people describe it as a mix of chocolate and pineapple, it is pleasant in an exotic way.
This butter is softer and a bit greasier than Muru Muru.
It tastes like nothing, which I am grateful to say after tasting the Bacuri butter.
Cupuacu belongs to the same family as the Cocoa tree and it is very similar and many aspects. It is softer and does not contain caffeine.



TUCUMA BUTTER
Tucuma's color go from off-white to light yellow, it has an earthy smell that I love, it is like a forest in the rain. It is solid at room temperature, absorbs easily and it is not greasy.

Perfect for skin and hair products.

 UCUUBA BUTTER
This butter has a beeswax, wood-like odor and is waxy solid at room temperature. It is a very hard butter with a melting point of 32°-37° C.
It can be used as a vegan substitute for paraffin. Soaps and creams made with Ucuuba show a proven anti-inflammatory effect, and have healing and anti-septic properties.

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Cupuaçu Butter - Ecology and Popular Uses

Cupuaçu Butter - (Theobroma grandiflorum, Malvaceae)

POPULAR USES

For the most part, only the fruit pulp of cupuaçu is commonly consumed, in the form of juices, ice creams, creams, and sweets. The removal of the pulp from the seeds is rather laborious and performed with scissors. In some regions the seeds are fermented, dried in the sun, roasted, ground in a mortar, and used as chocolate (also called cupulate). In general, seeds are a byproduct of processing the pulp and are underutilized and thrown away. However, because there is a growing interest of the pharmaceutical industry to acquire the butter of cupuaçu, the fruit pulp industries and cooperatives are beginning to separate and process the seeds in larger quantities.

ECOLOGY

Cupuaçu, a native of Amazonia, is a small tree that is 4 to 8 meters  (when cultivated) or up to 18 m high (in growing in the wild). It belongs to the same family as cacao. The fruit is very large, cylinder-shaped with rounded ends, up to 30 cm long, and has an average weight of 1.2 kilograms. At maturity the fruits fall, without the stalk, when they start releasing a characteristic odor, which indicates that they are ripe. The fruit contains a juicy and creamy pulp, with a characteristic flavor, which surrounds 20 to 30 large oval seeds. The butter of cupuaçu, similar to the "butter" of cacao but superior in quality, is extracted from the seeds and contains approximately 45% oil. On commercial plantations fruit production begins in the 3rd year and trees produce an average of 12 fruits per tree, per year, when mature. It is recommended that 180 trees be planted per hectare, which produces approximately 2148 fruits per year, 990 kg of pulp, and 443 kg of seeds (an average fruit is composed of 38.4% pulp, 17.2% seeds, and 44.4% skin). In general, 1000 kg of fresh seeds will produce 135 kg of cupuaçu butter.

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