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$8.99 16 OUNCE JAR
$16.99 34 OUNCE JAR
Shea Butter - A butter obtained from the nut of the Mangifolia tree in West and Central Africa. It's also called Karite Butter or African Shea Nut Butter. Shea butter is high in triglycerides and has 5% fatty acids, 8% unsaponifiables, and 7% waxy esters.
Skin Benefits
Repairs: Unique to shea butter is its high content of non-saponifiable fats. This natural fatty acid action is felt at the cellular level and contributes to the regeneration process of dry and wrinkled skin and can be used to treat rheumatism and aching muscles.
Moisturizes: Shea butter penetrates deep into your skin and gives it back its elasticity. It will revitalize, soften and maintain moisture to your skin without greasiness.
Nourishes: Shea butters high content of vitamins A, E & F will provide your skin with all the essential elements it needs for good skin balance.
Uses: For use on all skin types to moisturize severe dry skin; heals and soothes irritated, itchy and broken skin (excellent for chicken pox); prevents and reduces wrinkles and age spots; prevents and heals sunburn; prevents and aides in the removal of scars, dark spots, blemishes, stretch marks, cold sores, bed sores, diaper rash and burns. For use on all skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis and skin discolorations. Soothes and heals skin after shaving or waxing. We've also found shea butter to miraculously heal bed sores on bed ridden individuals and helps heal and restore elasticity to the skin of burn victims.
Our African Shea Butter has been purified to remove all foreign matter but none of its natural, beneficial vitamins and healing properties. Other companies offer refined Shea Butter which may have lost all their natural vitamins during this process which are beneficial to your skin for healing and nourishing.
Hair Benefits
Shea Butter will add and maintain moisture to dry and brittle hair, revitalizes, repairs and prevents breakage and split ends and promotes hair growth. Also protects your hair from damaging sun rays, excessive heat, perms and dyes.
Unlike petroleum - based products, it will not clog pores and block hair shaft, allowing for easy breathing and stimulating growth.
Use it as a conditioning sheen to maintain hairs natural shine, improve manageability and before swimming to protect you hair against chlorine or sea salt.
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DON'T: Pay more for shea butter than you should. Although a wonderful natural resource, shea butter is really NOT an expensive product. It is relatively inexpensive and is even cheaper than cocoa butter.
DON'T: Buy shea butter without knowing how it is extracted and refined. Chemicals are most usually emplored to do these jobs. Chemicals reduce and just about nullify all the natural benefits of shea butter. Buy only from suppliers that can give you specs on their shea butter and know the direct source of hands the butter went through before it arrived to them.
DON'T: Think that just because a butter is unrefined that it is natural. This is usually NOT the case. Shea butter is most often extracted by hexane because hexane provides much higher yields, thus producing a much cheaper shea butter. A butter can be naturally refined without deteriating its natural properties. The refining system simply takes out unwanted debris.
DON'T: Purchase shea butter products, which are not properly labeled. FDA requires that all products state clearly, in order the exact ingredients that are in a product. This is a legal requirement and protects the consumers well-being. All products that are a combination of oil and water must contain a preservative to protect it from growths of mold, bacteria, strep, etc. (a process that naturally forms a few hours after the two are combined). Such combinations must list a proper presevative (vit. e alone will not preserve a product, natural preservatives only preserve for a few weeks). Other areas of concern are some chemicals that could cause toxic build up after prolonged use.
DON'T: Diminish the natural properties of shea butter with fragrance oils (chemical reproductions) when you can use pure essential oils, derived from natural plants, etc., instead.
DON'T: Substitute petroleum jelly for shea butter. Petroleum jelly is a by product of the oil (gasoline) industry. You wouldn't put gasoline on your skin would you? Petroleum jelly is good for lubricating engine parts, but never your body. Discontinue use of all petroleum jelly products and use all natural shea butter, expressed from naturally growing karite nuts instead.
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