Organic Sal Butter

Uses skincare

A highly penetrating base ingredient to thicken your homemade cosmetics. Use as an ingredient in your preparations:

• Body massage products (creams, balms, etc.)

• Lip and lip contour care

• Face care balms

• Hand care

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

Uses hair care

Use as an ingredient in your preparations:

• Hair care (in emulsions in your shampoos and conditioners)

• Repairing hair masks and balms

For the skin

• 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.

On the hair

• To be incorporated as a fatty substance in an emulsion.

• As this butter is very hard at room temperature, it needs to be combined with your oil-based preparation (containing varying amounts of vegetable oils and butters) to make a balm (in a mixture of 1 to 80%) or incorporated as a fatty substance in an emulsion (at a level of 1 to 5%).

Synergies

• For curly hair care: Coconut, Yangu, and Sapote vegetable oils.

• To beautify hair and make it shiny: Ceramides, castor oil, ylang-ylang essential oil.

• To nourish hair: Silk and rice proteins, phytokeratin, provitamin B5 emulsion.

Cultivation

Organic, certified by Ecocert Greenlife in accordance with the Ecocert standard available at http://cosmetiques.ecocert.com

Quality

100% pure and natural butter

Production process

Mechanical pressure then purification by physical processes (filtration) without solvents or chemical raw materials

Part of the plant used

Fruit stones

Botanical name

Shorea robusta

Botanical family

Dipterocarpaceae

Function

Cosmetic ingredients

Other names

Borneo tallow

Oxidative potential

Not very sensitive

Organoleptic properties

• Appearance: very hard butter at room temperature; oily above 35°C

• Colour: light beige

• Odour: very faint, vegetal

• Feel: smooth and grainy, does not leave a greasy film on the skin

Density

0.890–0.940 (density corresponds to the volumetric mass at 20°C)

Density at 40°C

0.88 (measured by the Aroma-Zone quality laboratory)

Melting point

35°C (measured by the Aroma-Zone quality laboratory)

Saponification index

178–192

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.

Supplier documentation

Dhara R, Bhattacharyya DK, Ghosh M.Analysis of sterol and other components present in unsaponifiable matters of mahua, sal and mango kernel oil. J Oleo Sci, 2010, 59(4), 169-76.

Soulier P., Lecerf J.C., Farines M., Soulier J. Composition chimique des beurres de sal et d'illipé. Revue française des corps gras, 1989, 36(9-10), 361-365.

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