Beautiful, Wonderful, Luxurious Shea Butter!

For those of you who are new to the Shea Butter world, here is some helpful info for you!

Shea butter comes from the nut of the fruit from the karite tree found growing in West Africa. The most common species is butyrospermum parkii. Natives have been using shea butter for beautiful skin and hair for generations. The butter has many natural skin benefits including natural sun protection. In Africa it is rubbed all over the body and hair to protect the skin and hair against rough elements. It is also used to cook with. In Europe, shea butter is imported and refined in enormous amounts. There it is often used to replace cocoa butter, which is quite costly. European companies use it in their chocolates and famous skin care products

If the term 'Wonder Cream' could be applied to a protective and healing skin care cream, Shea Butter deserves the title.

Pure Shea Butter is a versatile, active ingredient consisting mostly of triglycerides and a fair amount of linoleic acid, bearing excellent anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, soothing, healing, and moisturizing properties. In fact, no other cream has ever been proven higher in skin care properties than Shea Butter. Research has proven that as early as 1949, among the population using Shea Butter, the occurence of skin diseases was scarce.

Shea Butter is naturally rich in vitamins A, E & F which are essential
vitamins needed for good skin balance.

Shea butter has soothing, moisturizing and protecting effects. Due to the presence of a sizeable quantity of unsaponifiable fats, its content in vitamins and other active elements, shea butter adds other more precise activities to these general properties. It displays a protecting role against UV rays because of its content in cinnamic acid and can thus be incorporated in solar products. The natural latex contained in shea butter would moreover prevent certain sun allergies. Shea butter also helps cell regeneration and capillary circulation. This favours the healing of small wounds, skin cracks and crevices, and skin ulcers. In the cosmetic field, this property is an asset against skin aging. It has restructuring effects on the epidermis, also on dry and fragile hair. Dry skin, dermatitis, dermatoses, eczema, sun burn, and burns are all helped by natural shea butter. It has an anti-elastase characteristic which makes it a good active ingredient against stretch marks.

Shea butter can also be used to treat rheumatism and aching muscles, and to ease colds because it decongests nasal mucous tissues. It is very well tolerated by the skin for it does not normally trigger any allergic reaction and can even be used on very sensitive skin areas such as mucous tissues and around the eyes.

Shea butter is therefore an outstanding recipe for cosmetic and pharmaceutical purposes, even incorporated in high proportions. It is easy to work into all kinds of emulsions and makes a very good excipient (carrier) as it prevents allergenic reactions without altering the active principles.