Cocoa butter crystals and tempering?

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aimee

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I bought some cocoa butter (I think it is slightly refined) and tried making a body butter with 20g cocoa butter and 60g olive oil. At first it looked ok but a couple of days later and now it seems to have tiny lumpy crystals of cocoa butter in it. I did a search on google and found that it needs to be 'tempered' but I don't know what this means.
What I did was heat the cocoa butter and oil together until it all melted. So can anyone tell me know to do it right?
Cheers!
 
tempering means heating up the butters at certain temperatures and keep it at that temp for a however long it takes to melt but I've never had a problem with cocoa butter. Check out this page on brambeberry and scroll down to cocoa butter.

http://www.brambleberry.com/oils.html
 
Thank you too cause I forgot about that. Out of habit of using it for so long I just normally heat it up for a short period of time and thats it.
 
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