By: Dan R Morris | Nutrition Is peanut butter healthy is another way of asking are peanuts healthy. The answer to that is of course - sometimes. Peanuts themselves are extremely healthy - but in the hands of a major food company??? read more
By: Harvey Serrano | Health & Fitness The reason why we need to have butter in the house is because you can use it for many things. Butter is very flavorful.I cannot live without butter to replace the foods that are so plain and nasty to eat. Butter is so yummy and it smells so good and sweet.Butter makes our cookies and cakes read more
By: Styla Brite | Cooking You can paint with colored cocoa butter to give confections an artistic edible decoration. The cocoa butter comes in a variety of different colors and has no taste so it won't affect the flavor of the item you are decorating. Pastry chef's first started using colored cocoa butter to enhance the look of their chocolate confections in the late 1990's. Early on you had to create your own colors by mixing powdered color with pure cocoa butter. Now it is much easier as you can buy colored cocoa butte read more
By: Collin Short | Beauty Shea Butter is a unique natural butter that is extracted from the fruit of the African Shea-Karite tree. In the United States we have only recently become aware of the many benefits of Shea Butter, but it has been used in Africa for centuries. Today many companies make products read more
By: Tiffany Windhurst | Beauty The cacao bean is quite famous for rendering many different products, the most notable and well loved is of-course, chocolate. However, the cacao bean has other nutritional properties, including those which are found in one of its derivatives; cocoa butter. read more
By: H Lee | Recipes Herb butters are among the small but important details offered by fine restaurants and appreciated by gourmet diners. Cooking with herbs is a good way to experiment with different herbs and it is easy to start with something simple like a herb butter. Use either salted or unsalted butter in preference to margarine. If using fresh herbs instead of dried herbs double the amount used as dried herbs have a more intense flavor. read more
By: Corey Edwards | Product Reviews A lot of people are choosing bath bombs as the perfect bath time companion. What are bath bombs, and why are they so popular nowadays? Bath bombs are often shaped like balls (sometimes as tablets or even as different as cupcakes!) which are part sodium carbonate and citric acid. read more
By: Jack Stanley | Food & Beverage BUTTER is the fatty constituent of milk. It is obtained by skimming or separating the cream from milk and churning it in order to make the particles of fat adhere to one another. Butter is used largely in the household as an article of food, for it is one of the most appetizing and digestible forms of fat. To read more
By: Jamie Highland | Women's Health Aside from other skin problems, stretch marks can also be irritating and a considerably pain in the neck for women. However, there is a clear and natural solution for this problem cocoa butter. read more
By: Martha Winslett | Skin care The moisturizing effect of Cocoa Butter is extremely effective and safe. Doctors usually recommend cocoa butter stretch mark cream for treating these marks in pregnant women. It is made up of stable and highly concentrated fats. It is completely a natural product. Cocoa butter can easily melt at body temperature. It can go deep down into dermis for improving the production of collagen in your body, which consequently improves the elasticity of your skin. read more
By: Andrea Marshall | Skin care A body butter massage cream can be a very beneficial addition to your skin care regimen, but you need to ensure that the product you use is totally all natural. Natural ingredients are what it is that you need in order to effectively heal the damage that has been done to your skin over the years. Plant based compounds offer all of the essential nutrients that your skin needs in order to be healthy. read more
By: Rebecca Davey | Nutrition The debate has flipped-flopped in our household. We have gone from butter to margarine, and back to butter, considering trans fats vs. saturated fats, plant source vs. animal source, variation in cost, and nutritional content. As with every health question, you have to make a choice--is this an issue worth considering? Read on and decide for yourself. read more