Murumuru butter : unrefined

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Murumuru is a rich Amazonian butter which helps to promote glossy hair and moisturised skin. High in vitamin A. murumuru butter improves hair flexibility and also helps to improve skin elasticity.

Murumuru butter can be used for lip balms, soaps, creams, hair products and body butter.

  • Stable butter
  • Food grade
  • Suitable for skin/hair care
  • Vitamin rich
  • Suitable for sensitive skin/scalp
  • Plant based
  • Non greasy
  • No artificial colours
  • No additives

The nuts are harvested between January and May and cold pressed + filtered to yield a cream coloured butter. Unrefined murumuru butter has a very impressive content of lauric acid (closer in composition to coconut oil). A solid butter, murumuru melts at 33°C and it is also rich in myristic acid.

Unrefined murumuru butter has a silky texture with protective soothing properties for skin and hair to help prevent loss of moisture.  

Our purchase of murumuru butter from remote indigenous communities throughout the Amazon River basin area helps to preserve the natural habitat and directly improves local economic conditions and sustainability.

Unless otherwise stated, our exotic butters are natural and unrefined.

NATURAL + UNREFINED:  We work directly with cooperatives and artisanal producers who process our range of pure natural raw butters without the use of chemicals.  Some of these are organic in nature and filtered for use retaining the natural characteristic scent and quality. 


We sell our range of exotic butters by weight. Since most of these butters are not re-melted for sale, we use slightly bigger jars.

UNDERSTANDING BUTTERS: Most butters and oils are made up of two components - olein (liquid) and stearin (stearic). This is why some butters easily melt depending on the amount of olein and some solidify under colder temperatures depending on the amount of stearin. This does not affect the product in anyway.

Butters are mainly naturally occurring. However, there are new butters emerging within the cosmetic industry due to market trends. These butters are vegetable oils which are hydrogenated. Hydrogenation yields a saturated butter and these include but not limited to Almond butter, Avocado butter, Coffee butter, Hemp butter, Macadamia butter, Olive butter, Ricebran butter, ..... the list goes on

Naturally occurring butter on the other hand are normally pressed from seeds and do not go through any hydrogenation:
Cocoa, Cupuaçu, Kombo, Mango, Murumuru, Shea, etc.
These are all solid at room temperature depending on both the palmitic and stearic acid content and need heat to melt.

Cocoa butter has 33% stearic and 25% palmitic acid compared to shea butter with 40% stearic and 4% palmitic acid. Looking at these two profiles, cocoa butter is more of a solid butter than shea which makes the latter more easy to apply.  However, due to the high stearic content of shea, the butter becomes quite solid in very cold temperatures.

Unlike most butters, the texture of shea changes during the year.  Much softer in summer and much harder in winter. This does not affect the natural properties of the butter.

 

 

COMPOSITION / INFORMATION

Trade Name:

Murumuru butter

Inci Name:

Astrocaryum murumuru

Status

 

Solid

Application:

Skincare/Cosmetics

CAS N°:

 

 

 

 

Not restricted in the Cosmetics Directive

PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

APPEARANCE:

 

Off white - solid. Melts at 33°C

ODOUR:

 

 

Characteristic

SAPONIFICATION VALUES:

.165 (NaOH)        .232 (KOH)

PEROXIDE VALUE

 

1.2 Meq/kg

ACID VALUE

 

1.24 mgKOH/gr


INCI : Astrocaryum murumuru
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : BRAZIL

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Customer Reviews

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Sheree Edwards
ONE OF MY FAVORITES

Murumuru is one of my favorites. Great quality and I love the results of my hair and skin using this butter.

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Czarina
Excellent quality

Excellent quality product.

I use this as part of my skincare regimen and have noticed visibly clearer and blemish free skin.

It’s hard so you need to add natural oils to soften it. Also skin should be damp in order to lock in moisture.

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Mary
High quality

Really like this product very high quality, easy to apply. Love the natural smell. Makes my dry skin look radiant and smooth.

When applied to body area you can tell the difference within seconds.

Because its unrefined and in its natural form, it does crumble a bit when applying to skin, but it's okay because product is of high quality and does it's job. Love it!!

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Lisa
Smooth and easy to apply

Vey smooth and easy to apply.
I've tried other company's murumuru and this is the best by far.

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