Coconut Body Butter

As Seen In Today, March 2007

Best if you want to: Drench your skin in a rich, intensive cream with a lush coconut scent that moisturizes for up to 24 hours.

Best for: normal to dry skin

How it works:

Organic, virgin, cold-pressed Community Trade coconut oil softens and conditions skin.
Community Trade shea butter and Community Trade cocoa butter moisturize and soften skin.

The Body Shop® difference: The original and world’s best Body Butter. Packed with select natural Community Trade ingredients and essential oils, we’ve always considered our Body Butter a winner. Since its launch in 1992, more than 40 million tubs of Body Butter have been sold around the world. In 2007, it was voted Best Body Care Product by readers of the UK Sunday Times Style Magazine. It’s also won its fair share of celebrity devotees, including Serena Williams, a winner in her own right, who is a fan of our Coconut Body Butter.

Cocoa butter

Is an excellent moisturizer that melts at body temperature, leaving the skin feeling soft and silky smooth. Enables the development of community projects such as schools and village wells, in addition to providing small-scale farmers with income to support their families. Learn More

Coconut oil

Organic Virgin Coconut Oil helps to condition the skin and hair to make you smooth, soft and deliciously scented. It also supports small, organic coconut farmers in Samoa, where there are few opportunities to earn a decent wage. Learn More

Shea butter

Moisturizes and helps soften the skin. Also provides a rural community of women with regular work and income.

Caprylic

Is derived from coconut oil. Softens the skin.

Water (Solvent/Diluent), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil (Emollient/Hair Conditioner), Cyclopentasiloxane (Emollient), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) (Emollient), Glycerin (Humectant), Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter (Emollient), Glyceryl Stearate (Emulsifier), PEG-100 Stearate (Surfactant), Cetearyl Alcohol (Emulsifier), Lanolin Alcohol (Stabiliser/Emollient), Phenoxyethanol (Preservative), Fragrance (Fragrance), Methylparaben (Preservative), Propylparaben (Preservative), Xanthan Gum (Viscosity Modifier), Benzyl Alcohol (Preservative), Disodium EDTA (Chelating Agent), Sodium Hydroxide (pH Adjuster), Caramel (Colour).

Exfoliate to remove dead skin cells using Coconut Body Scrub before moisturizing with Coconut Body Butter.

Scoop out with your fingers and massage into your skin, as often as desired.

Community Trade Information

For centuries the women of Ghana have used cocoa butter to moisturize and cool their skin in the African heat. Since 1995, The Body Shop has been buying cocoa beans from the Kuapa Kokoo company in Ghana, a fair trade co-operative with over 30,000 small-scale farmers. The money made by the co-operative enables the development of community projects such as schools and village wells in addition to providing the farmers with income to support their families.

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through the work of Women in Business Development Incorporated, rural communities in Samoa are benefiting from a revival in traditional crafts and farming practices. When Women in Business introduced The Body Shop to Samoan organic farmers, we knew that, when it comes to skin care, we'd be doing what comes naturally.

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Shea butter is one of nature's great moisturizers. Ghanaian women have used it for centuries to protect their skin from the dry Saharan winds. So who better to buy ours from than the Tungteiya Shea Butter Association, Northern Ghana. An association of around 400 women from 10 villages, we ensure a fair price for their product. Since trading with The Body Shop the women have been able to dramatically change their lives with water pipes and wells saving hours of water collecting, better housing, medical care, food, and self esteem. Importantly, they are also able to give their children, particularly their daughters, the chance to go to school.

Learn More about our fair trade programs.