Shea Butter
Shea Butter is an ivory fat extracted from the shea tree or carrot tree by breaking the nut and then boiling it. Shea Butter is used in many cosmetics and skin care products, Moisturizing and skin and hair creams. Shea trees grow in West African regions only, so that these trees produce a kind of walnut, and African women make butter from the past by waxing and cooking, as well as moisturizing the body and waxing the wood.
Shea Butter contains many vitamins such as Vitamin A, Vitamin D and Vitamin P, as well as some natural fats that deeply moisturize the body. It also helps in the treatment of skin cracks and eczema, but it is best to use them on the body as a heavy body on the face.
Ways to dissolve them
The texture of Shea Butter is solid and difficult to use directly on the skin, it must be dissolved before use, and ways to dissolve the following:
- And then put the container containing the raw butter in another metal container filled with water to be over low heat, so that the butter melts on the water vapor, taking into account the continuous stirring of the butter, and then move to the water bath. This is done by placing an appropriate amount of shea butter in a glass container. Another pot after melting to cool slightly with its continuous stirring then used, so as to prevent some crystalline particles from being hard-to-touch and that may damage the skin while in use.
- The method is by placing the shea butter in a glass container, provided it is not deep and placed in the microwave oven for 2 minutes. After the period, the container is removed and the butter is stirred and stirred so that the grains do not form until they are slightly cooled and covered with the skin.
Use Shea butter for hair
After dissolving the butter, massage the scalp and hair well and leave on the hair for a period of not less than half an hour, and then rinsed well, use this method three times a week after the third use will add to the hair luster and length and softness as well as ease of styling.
Shea butter to get rid of cracks and lines
Two tablespoons of shea butter and two tablespoons of cocoa butter are melted by the water bath method mentioned earlier. Then add three tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon of wheat germ oil, one teaspoon of rose water and two tablespoons of glycerin. Mix well, then put in a tray You can massage the whole body with it and then leave it on the skin for at least two hours. Then wash the area with soap and water. If the mixture is used by a massage machine or a sauna The results are better.