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We will dive into depth about cocoa butter for your beard care routine shortly, We only use top quality premium ingredient's using only soil association approved suppliers, so you can always trust us to source the best quality so we can provide the best beard care products for you.

 

Our Key Ingredient's to our beard balms are:

If you have been following any of the Man Made Beard Company socials, you would already know I am a huge fan of cocoa butter. 

High in antioxidants which is a crucial component to protecting your skin being very rich in many vitamins & natural nutrients such as short-chain fatty acid's, it's probably now making sense as to why I use this as a key ingredient to the Man Made Beard Balms and newly launched Man Made Beard Butters.

Yes, Cocoa Butter is used for making chocolate but the benefits for your skin & hair are very breath taking that such a rich creamy substance can outperform any other butter on the market.

 

As previously mentioned that you want to move the beans around allowing them to breathe, as they ferment the juices you want to dry these off to preserve the quality of your product (Cocoa Bean)

This step is quite simple, you want to remove the moisture from the cocoa beans. 

The dryer the bean the better quality (the purest form of cocoa butter)

Many companies dry these out with ovens, smaller companies or sole traders will air & sun dry the beans. This is a very timely process once again this can take several days before you get down to the moisture you would like to finish off with.

Again throughout this period, you want to be flipping the beans to dry them out thoroughly.

The easiest form of extracting the cocoa butter is to warm them up and press them, this is an easier way but not the way to the purest raw cocoa butter.

To provide pure & raw cocoa butter, you want to press the whole bean to extract the butter. Another way to do this is by grinding the bean so much you then extract the oil.

So simple terms, it's quicker to press the butter when it's warm but if you want to have raw butter then cold press (longer process)

Cold pressing is better as you will get a purer form of butter.

 

Unlike many carrier oils Castor oil is very thick, One of the reasons I use this in the Man Made Beard Balms is because it helps thicken the blend of the oils and contributes to the smooth beard balm you all know.

There are some great benefit's too, very different to the ones I have mentioned so it's great to spice up the product quality properties. I do not use castor oil in the Man Made Beard Oils for the simple reason it will thicken up the oil and not actually be as lightweight to target your skin beneath. 

(this is the key point to using beard oil)

I have however been asked to do a thick oil which is something in the works potentially for 2022.

 

Castor oil comes from India (at least ours does)

The oil is pressed from the castor bean, the smell is very distinct which is great for not covering the scent in your products. As castor oil is a vegetable oil once pressed from the bean itself with an average of 90% being high in fatty acid chains.

 

Having been used in many beauty products from skincare to haircare due to the lathering effect in beard soaps and many beard shampoo's. A great enhancer for hair conditioning and anti-dandruff or in this case beardruff.

 

Even though Castor oil is a natural oil, it's actually a natural preservative.  

Being used in many foods from sweets to savoury products, many countries like India, Pakistan & Nepal where a small application of castor oil is used on many of their foods such as rice & wheat to stop their food from rotting, this also increases the life expectancy of that particular product.

You're probably starting to see the pattern now, maybe even understanding some of the thorough research I have done not just into this blog but the actual products. 

 

 

With these 11 key benefits listed for your hair alone, you can see exactly why this beauty has been added to our balms, you can certainly feel the difference between our Man Made Beard Balms compared to many others on the UK Market!

 

Castor oil is great as a standalone product but once mixed with many other variables like the ones I have crafted you will notice a big difference in your beard game!

 

Jojoba oil is cold-pressed like many of the other oils mentioned above, the only difference is that when exposed to cold temperatures this product will start to solidify as it's just over 50% wax which is extracted from the jojoba bush also known as Simmondsia Chinensis. 

In conclusion, these are both great natural oils, having similar benefits it really does come down to opinion. I personally believe Castor oil is better than jojoba in solid products such as the Man Made Beard Balms because it's a great natural thickener with great absorption. 

Jojoba oil is better in a liquid form because it's lightweight compared to Castor oil, this is the reason we have this included in the Man Made Beard Oils.

 

We all know it's famous for adding that beautiful clean shine, with high levels of Omega-9 & Vitamin E making this a great natural antioxidant. Increasing the strength of your beard hair strands whilst softening your beard.

With continuous use over time, you will also notice your hair being easier to maintain & comb through as sweet almond oil is actually an emollient it will fill in the gaps and return your beard to a cellular level.