Customer Reviews

Now Solutions Cocoa Butter with Jojoba Oil, Multi-Purpose Moisturizer, 6.5 Ounce

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Natural cocoa butter is weird. Every time I get a jar its hard as a rock, some ugly grey color and smells funny. It does not want to melt. But I get it all out of the jar (generally with a screwdriver, I'm a guy, my less brutal female friend puts hers in a hot water bath to loosen it) put it in a double boiler and heat it till its completely melted and clear. Then I pour it in a pan, and, when its set up, prise it out and break it into small pieces. These shards smell more like white chocolate and melt quicky at body temprature. My friend pours her melted cocoa butter into small candy molds (the flexable silicon ones!SiliconeZone Flower Butter Mold, Orange ). She also adds half a vanilla bean when she melts the stuff. Then it smells totally like white chocolate! I do not know why natural cocoa butter needs to be remelted before it becomes useful. Just don't judge it by the way it is in the jar-after being melted and cooled, its a different product entirely

I bought this for my daughter and son, both of whom are under 3 and have extremely dry skin. My daughter also suffers from excema. She can't use anything with artifical colors or fragrances, so I thought this would be perfect. It helps tremendously with their skin issues, but it isn't as easy as simply scooping some out and using it. You have to warm it up, either in a microwave safe dish or by placing the container in some warm water. It is seriously hard when you get it. Like chocolate. But you will smell yummy after using it!

I liked this product...it has a strong scent of Cocoa but not necessarily unpleasant...it has to be popped in the microwave to soften it..but has worked much better than store-bought moisturizers. I use it in combination with Shea butter.

When i first recieved this jar of cocoa butter it was/is rock hard and dry. For everyone who hasn't yet figured out how to use this product, read this review it will save you some time and frustration.
I cut out the amount of cocoa butter needed from this jar, added it to a heat safe container with coconut oil at room tempurature... I put the container in a pan halfway filled with water, don't fill 2 much or the water will go into your container. With low heat and a few minutes the cocoa butter melted nicely into the coconut oil, so I removed it from the heat added argan oil, grapeseed oil and mixed. Once it returned to room tempurature the mixture was not dry or hard. It melts easily when I want to use it and my skin has never felt better or more hydrated. This works wonders on winter dry hair as a leave in treatment overnight. I've also used this mixture on my face, under makeup and at night. I've noticed smoother, brighter skin and wouldn't trade my oil for any department store product again.
Give this oen a try, it's worth it.

Finally something for my horrible blemishes! I had been using the drugstore brand concoctions for my face and was sadly disappointed many times. It never occured to me that the "other" ingrdients could be to blame. I enjoy the fact that a little goes a long way and my pores are no longer clogged due to buildup. My skin is so soft and radiant.

I find it interesting that people would buy something without knowing what it is. I read that a lot of people were either confused or frustrated about their cocoa butter being hard. Pure cocoa butter is suppose to be hard, it's not like those cocoa butter creams you buy in the store because this is the pure ingredient not mixed with anything else. That being said, I really love this stuff! I found that the fastest and easiet way to get it out of the jar is to simply take either a butter knife or spoon and just sort of chip or scrape some chunks and shavings out a little at a time.

I make my own lotions and bath products, so I'll already have the cocoa butter premixed with something else to make it more 'manageable' as a hand cream before I head out. I take the cocoa butter pieces, add something like shea butter or an oil(coconut, mineral, EV olive, etc.), put them all in a glass and melt the entire mixture in the microwave. I than pour the mixture into a seperate travel size container, let it sit for about 30 minutes and voila! A very yummy smelling and heavenly hand and body cream! I take the leftover 'crumbs' still stuck to my hands after chipping the stuff out and just rub them in. I would definitely recommend this to anyone I know, just remember that it's going to be hard :)

I have never had terrible acne (but isn't ANY acne kind of terrible?). I rarely but occasionally break out from stress or whatever hormones...who knows. But anyway, I had read somewhere that Cocoa Butter helps with acne and I remembered thinking that it couldn't possibly help because it is so thick and greasy. But recently I had a nasty little hint of oncoming acne that was threatening to become an ugly mess at a time when I really wanted to look good, so I tried it. OVERNIGHT, clear. Dinner with the ex--I looked amazing (well at least my skin was clear).

My son is a preteen and hasn't had any real issues yet, but his face is very dry. This product took care of that almost immediately as well, with no pimples or any issues that one might expect from something as oily as cocoa butter on the face of a hormonal 13 year old boy. I did some online research and apparently the acne cure thing is pretty common.

Also, I scratched the heck out of my leg about a year and a half ago and it left a nasty dark scar down the front of my leg. I have an olive complexion that scars very easily. I have been using this product and have noticed significant improvement in the color and texture of the nasty leg scratch scar.

That being said, as other reviewers have noted--this product comes very hard. It isn't something you think you can rub into your body. Some melt it and spread it, some say they make into little cakes and use it that way. That all sounds very clever. I am lazy however. I crack out a little piece and rub it in my hands until it softens then I rub it in. That works great for me. It smells incredible.

All of the other ideas sound great too. If I ever get that motivated, I will try them and update.

This is the best hand grease I've found so far. Here what I've tried, btw:

- Vitamin E oil from drugstore: OK; too greasy; also it somehow reacts with anything ferrous you happen to handle to produce a rancid smell of some uncategoriseable sort (both on your hands and on the object handled; very unpleasant). Can be used (with caution) but not the first choice (nor the second). A lot of E in it (30,000 units per 2 oz) is good though, and it's not very expensive during a two-for-one sale we have now and then.

- cold cream, like Pond's or generic: OK but too chemical, scary;
- coconut oil: good (I'm planning to mix in some pure vitamin E and try that)

- Colonial Dames' Vitamin E cream: really good but costly and smelly and has parabens and alcohol

- Jason Vitamin E cream: no parabens, but less E, less greasy; overall good

- Burt's Bee hand salve: OK, persistent, but too costly and initially too smelly, obnoxious, can't be used in public (OK for home though)

- Shea butter from the same maker (NOW): very good, not too greasy, fairly persistent, no smell at all; comes second best after this one.

- Pure lanolin from the same maker (NOW): good moisturising effect, persistent, a bit too thick (hard to spread); would be OK but it stinks so foul you can't use it unless you like to smell like barnyard. You will certainly be removed from the premises if you go around like that.

- THIS GREASE HERE: best. It does have a smell, rather noticeable, but the smell is nice (smells like chocolate, wonder if you can eat it?) and it doesn't last. The strongest part of the product is how persistent it is: I've washed my hands five times and still didn't need the towel: water doesn't stick, it gathers up in a few globules on the surface of the skin that you can simply shake off, w/o towel-drying; so, obviously, some grease remains on the skin even after several washes. Not too greasy at the same time, go figure. For me this is god-sent 'cause I wash hands a lot and the skin is really parched because of that.

Bottom line: this one takes the prize; five stars. Shea butter from the same maker is a close second, shared by the two vitamin E creams; Burt's Bee slave a distant third. Recommended.

Added on 10/28/2011: Just to share: I finished my researches into moisturisers, and the results are somewhat anticlimatic: the best moisturiser for face is L'Oreal's aftershave; the best all-around moisturiser is Cetaphil (both lotion and cream; I like the cream better but both are fine). Everything else I've tried isn't quite as good (even though it was all two-to-four times more expensive). Go figure. L'Oreal has all the usual crap including parabens in it; Cetaphil is pretty harmless (no parabens, no fragrances, no grease: a pretty neutral product), but not too natural either. Yet these two are the best: not greasy at all and with good humectant properties; neither one clogs pores. This is just for your info; it in no way affects what I say above about the NOW cocoa-buttur creme.

The title claims that this is the cocoa butter mixed with jojoba. It's not. It's 100% cocoa butter with no jojoba oil added. I can get that elsewhere, for less money. Please Amazon, get your items straight.

This is pure Cocoa Butter (as shown on the product label), not with Jojoba. Besides moisturizing, it is very good for cough treatment - put a small amount (it melts instantly) in your cup of hot milk (tea, coffee) 2-3-4xday during 2-3 days and you'll see the result :)