Raw Unrefined Shea Butter Grade A From Ghana 1/2 Lb Price: $4.00
Description:
The Origin of Shea Butter
Shea Butter is from the nut of the Shea Tree, also known as “The
Tree of Life". The Shea tree only grows in the savannah region of Africa.
It grows up to 60 feet and can live up to 200 years. The Shea Tree produces its
fruits once a year. The nut in the center of the fruit when crushed and
traditionally processed by boiling and extracting
The oil is what yields the vegetable fat known as Shea Butter.
Shea butter has been used for centuries in Africa for cooking,
and also as skin treatment for its amazing ability to renew, repair and protect
the skin against harsh climates. African healers and beauties like Cleopatra
have known about Shea butter for thousands of years.
The Different Types of
Shea Butter
Unrefined Shea Butter is traditional Shea butter in its raw and
all natural state, with nothing added. It has a soft texture, ivory to light
yellow color, and has a mild nutty scent which will fade away within minutes
once applied to skin or hair. Unrefined Shea butter is the most effective type
of Shea butter because the healing and moisturizing properties are intact,
undiluted and unaltered.
Refined, Processed Shea
Butter
Refined Shea Butter has been altered to remove the natural Shea
scent and color. In the process, most of the effective properties are also
lost. Refined Shea butter is extracted with chemicals or solvents like hexane.
The extracted oil is then refined which involves bleaching, deodorizing and
overheating it. As a result refined Shea butter is bleach white in color and
odorless, but it lacks the true moisturizing, healing, and therapeutic
properties of true traditional Shea butter. Some people buy refined Shea butter
because it doesn't have the natural Shea scent but they don't know it has
reduced beneficial properties. Many major cosmetic
companies have started making Shea butter products including moisturizers,
anti-aging, stretch marks and hair products. These products also fall under the
category of processed Shea butter because the percentage of Shea butter in
these products is very low and not so effective.
The Top 10 Uses of Shea
Butter
Moisturizer for dry
skin
Eczema cream
Blemish cream
For softer smoother skin
For burns
Wrinkle reduction cream
Moisturizer for dry hair
Shaving cream
Anti-itch cream
Stretch mark prevention cream
The Shelf Life of Shea
Butter
The shelf life of Shea butter is 18-24 months when kept in a
cool dry place. After that time the healing properties of Shea butter are less
effective but it is still a good moisturizer.
Application of the Shea
Butter
Shea butter melts at body temperature. For easy application warm
Shea butter onto palms until it is completely melted and smooth on. Shea Butter
absorbs quickly, penetrates deeply and coats the skin with a fine film; thereby
diminishing water loss and leaving the skin softened and protected.
The Amazing Properties of
Shea Butter
Shea butter is the best natural product to protect, heal and
improve skin. It is prized
because it contains a real cocktail of elements good for the skin. Among these,
is first a
very high content of Essential Fatty Acids, more than in all other vegetable
butter. These
fatty acids are oleic, stearic, linoleic and palmitic acid.
They play a very important moisturizing, softening, and anti-inflammatory role,
and help
renew the cutaneous cells. Shea butter also contains vitamins A, D, E, and K
that have a
recognized effect against skin aging.It is also rich in phytosterols with protecting and
regenerating virtues.
The manufacturing process has a great influence on the properties and
efficiency of
Shea butter. If it is refined or processed, it loses its vitamins and part of
its efficiency.
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Shea butter
