Murumuru Butter

Uses

Use as an ingredient in your preparations:

• Creams, lotions, and soaps for dry and damaged skin

• Rich, repairing butters and balms

• As an active superfatting ingredient for making "superfatted" soaps

• Lip balms and sticks

Uses

Use as an ingredient in your preparations:

• Smoothing and conditioning hair products

• Repairing hair masks and balms

In practice

• Incorporate as a fatty substance in an emulsion.

• Mix with your oil-based preparation (rich in vegetable oils and butters) to make a balm (from 1 to 80% depending on the desired texture).

Recommended skincare blends

• For mature skin: argan, rose hip, borage, evening primrose and prickly pear carrier oils, frankincense, damask rose, rosewood and ho wood essential oils.

• For very dry skin: wheat germ, avocado, olive and sweet almond carrier oils.

• For sensitive skin: calendula macerated oil, avocado phytosterol concentrate, calendula, chamomile and pomegranate CO2 extracts, spike lavender, Roman and German Camomile and blue cypress essential oils.

In practice

It is incorporated as an oil phase in the manufacture of hair balms.

Recommended haircare blends

• For a smoothing effect: BTMS and Conditioner Emulsifier, Plant Silicone, ceramides and broccoli carrier oil.

• To improve hair condition and make it shiny: ceramides, castor oil, ylang-ylang essential oil.

• To nourish hair: Silk and Rice Proteins, phytokeratin, provitamin B5 emulsion.

Culture

• Conventional (batch 22BEU0015)

• Wild picked

Quality

Raw butter, 100% pure and natural

Production process

Mechanical pressure, raw butter, unrefined

Part of the plant used

Fruit stones

Botanical name

Astrocaryum murumuru

Botanical family

Arecaceae

Function

Cosmetic ingredients

Oxidative potential

Not very sensitive.

Learn more about the oxidative potential of butters and oils...

Organoleptic properties

• Appearance: hard butter, waxy in appearance

• Colour: pale yellow

• Odour: characteristic plant-like scent, with rather volatile notes of roasted nuts or cooked coconut, and an underlying aroma reminiscent of potato

• Feel: smooth and grain-free, does not leave an oily residue on the skin

Density

0.89 - 0.92 (density corresponds to density at 20°C)

Density at 40°C

0.90 (measured by the Aroma-Zone quality laboratory)

Melting point

45°C (measured by the Aroma-Zone quality laboratory)

Saponification index

240-310

Store in a dry place away from heat and light.

Warning

The properties, indications and methods of use described above are derived from scientific literature and/or reference books or websites in aromatherapy, hydrolatherapy and phytotherapy. This general information is provided for informational purposes only and cannot under any circumstances be considered as medical information. This information cannot under any circumstances replace a diagnosis, consultation or medical follow-up, nor engage our liability.

Rele AS, Mohile RB. Effect of mineral oil, sunflower oil, and coconut oil on prevention of hair damage. J Cosmet Sci. 2003 Mar-Apr;54(2):175-92.

Mamabrim M. C. T., Barrera-Arellano D. Caracterización de aceites de frutos de palmeras de la región amazónica del Brasil/Characterization of palm tree fruit oils from brazilian Amazonia region. Grasas y aceites, 1997, 48(3), 154-158.

Saraiva S.A., Cabral E.C., Eberlin M.N., Amazonian Vegetable Oils and Fats: Fast Typification and Quality Control via Triacylglycerol (TAG) Profiles from Dry Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry Fingerprinting. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2009, 57(10), 4030-4034

Piccirelli A., Msika P. Cosmetic composition containing an oil extracted for Murumuru seeds. Patent n°WO/2003/059244 dated 24/07/2003

Supplier documentation

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