Liquid Gold 8 LB Premium Raw Cocoa Butter Unrefined 100% Natural Pure Skin Care

**Antioxidant action** Free-radicals are small molecules formed during the body’s metabolism when energy is generated from glucose in every cell in your body. They are also formed by exposure to pollutants such as car fumes, pesticides, and tobacco smoke. These free-radicals destroy cells, and when these are skin cells you begin to age. Your skin wrinkles and dries up, and you begin to take on the look of somebody years older than you are. They do this through a process known as oxidation (a good way to think of it is to consider how iron rusts when it oxidises), and antioxidants can prevent it. They neutralize the free-radicals, and prevent your skin cells from being destroyed. Cocoa butter contains a number of different antioxidants which can kill-off a wide range of different free-radicals. In fact, cocoa butter contains a much higher antioxidant concentration then even blueberries and other superfoods. **Stretch mark reduction** Cocoa butter is widely noted to help reduce stretch marks. This is most likely due to its nutrient and anti-oxidant content, as we’ve seen above. There are no guarantees, but many women claim that regular use of cocoa butter was what kept their stretch marks away. Now, we can’t promise that cocoa butter, alone, will keep stretch marks away completely. As we always say, the health of your skin is dependant on more than just what you apply to it every day. **Other benefits** Cocoa butter is high in fatty acids, meaning it can penetrate deep-down into the skin and hydrate from within.