Tucuma Butter

Tucuma butter is a brittle plant-derived butter.

Astrocaryum Tucuma Seed Butter

Hard off-white chunks and shards.

Up to 100%

Brittle, a bit glossy. Neat application leaves the skin looking a bit glossy and feeling smooth, soft, and a bit silicone-y.

The refined version smells vaguely of fat.

Fast to medium

32°C (90°F)

Oil

When used in higher concentrations (upwards of 50%) tucuma butter offers some firmness to our products. In something like a solid body butter bar it can provide the bulk of the hardening power, and in lower concentrations it can offer some firming to a formula.

It also offers lovely skin feel and emolliency, though this isn’t particularly unique to tucuma butter. I really likely it in body butter bars as the skin feel is great and body butter bars require a brittle butter at high concentrations to hold their shape.

No, but I enjoy it as an alternative to cocoa butter.

I’ve only managed to find refined, and I like it.

Excellent no-scent brittle butter option. A fantastic option for those with cocoa allergies.

Can be harder to find and more expensive than cocoa butter.

You’ll need another brittle butter; deodorized cocoa butter would be your best option, but kokum butter should also work.

Melt it into your heated oil phase; it is too brittle to cold process.

Stored somewhere cool, dark, and dry, tucuma butter should last at least one to two years.

Tucuma butter is rich in Lauric, Myristic and Oleoic fatty acids.

100g (3.3oz)

 Buy it from an online DIY ingredient supplier or Amazon.