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African healers have used shea butter for over thousands of years as the ideal treatment for dry or aging skin. Its high content of non-saponifiable fatty acids gives it the ability to moisturize and retain the elasticity of the skin. Shea butter also protects the skin against the damaging effects of the sun while repairing cellular degeneration. It is basically insaponifiable and therefore a great moisturizing ingredient in soap.
Shea butter helps build a barrier on the skin that helps to hold in the moisture for up to 8 hours. This along with the high vitamin E content helps the skin to heal and regenerate its self.
Shea butter has been used in African cultures for centuries, protecting skin subjected to the harshest of environments. When applied, shea butter provides an effective barrier against the drying damage caused by cold, wind, and sun, allowing your skin to heal. You'll feel the difference from your very first use. Shea butter gently moisturizes, leaving skin irresistibly soft and supple. You'll want to indulge often, but you won't need to. 1 or 2 applications a day is usually enough.
Some of the virtues of 100% pure African shea butter are as follows:
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Prevents dryness of the skin |
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Protects hair and skin from the sun |
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Soothes burns |
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Excellent for:
- Roughness of skin
- Ulcerated skin
- Irritated and chapped skin
- Baby's skin |
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Improves surface capillary circulation (skin regeneration) |
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Anti-inflammatory (fights rheumatism) |
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Anti-wrinkling (strengthens and smoothes skin) |
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Anti-aging (prevent skin from thinning |
Shea Butter main applications
SKIN BENEFITS
Repairs: Unique to shea butter is it's 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.
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. The superficial layers of the skin absolutely require an acceleration of blood circulation. You will notice a tingly sensation on your skin immediately after application.
a) Flexibility: it is the high content of unsaponifiable elements and vitamin F in Shea butter that makes it so flexible. You can feel the difference just by touching your skin after a massage.
b) Protection: the butter will penetrate deep into your skin, leaving a satin finish to the skin. The protection is real and will last a long time. Shea butter softens the lips and gives them a protective film against the cold. Shea butter also helps irritated noses due to allergies or colds. A little butter may be applied in each nostril.
The Relaxing Solution: apply carefully on arms and thighs for instantaneous muscular well-being.
Local Applications: apply immediately after shaving or waxing to prevent irritation and to give your skin a lustrous, satiny look and feel.
REVITALIZING THE SKIN
Apply butter on all exposed parts: forearms and legs to eliminate spasms. It is an ideal for softening dry skins. Use it for the treatment of dry and wrinkled skin, sunburns, scars, skin irritations, cold sores, itching, diaper rash, eczema, burns, dermatitis and skin discoloration's. Soothes and heals skin after shaving or waxing.
MEN AND ATHLETES
It is no longer popular for men to have lined skin. Use shea butter after shaving for a healthy and younger feeling skin. Gentlemen, at least once a week, apply a generous amount from head to foot. With special care for joint (elbows and knees), toes, heels and nails.
ESSENTIAL FOR BABY'S DAILY CARE
Shea Butter has been used daily for centuries as a unique link between mother and child to prevent delicate baby skin irritations. Totally wipes out diaper rash.
COLD AND WINTER
All of your body parts that are exposed are attacked by the cold weather. The film that Shea butter leaves on your skin will screen and protect it for hours. Never forget that the fight against aging begins with protection.
SUN & SUMMER
Your skin suffers during the whole summer. Regular use of shea butter in addition to sunscreen products, before and after sun exposition, leaves you with tanned skin and avoids peeling.
SHEA BUTTER has also an activity on cell regeneration and capillary circulation. This favors the healing of small wounds, dermises, cracks, and crevices, skin ulcers. In the cosmetic field, this property is an asset against skin aging. It has restructuring effects on the epidermis; it has an anti-elastase characteristic, which makes it a good active ingredient against stretch marks.
The skin very well tolerates it for it does trigger any allergic reaction and can even be used on very sensitive skin areas such as mucous tissues and around the eyes.
It is therefore an outstanding product for cosmetic, even incorporated in high proportions. It can be used in anti-aging products, moisturizing creams for dehydrated, irritated, scaly skins.
Apply shea butter the same way you apply an oil treatment. Shea butter, however, can be left on your hair for anywhere from an hour to an entire afternoon. I have many clients who comb shea butter through their hair before a day at the beach. You can also put a plastic cap on your head and leave it on through the night.
Both oil treatments and shea butter should be shampooed out. Many women notice an immediate improvement in the look and feel of their hair. I don't advise deep conditioning right before a big event though, because your hair often has less volume immediately afterwards
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