Shea Butter
Shea butter is known as ivory-colored fat, extracted from the shea nut after breaking the nut and then boiling it and mixing it. Shea butter is widely used in many cosmetics, ointments and moisturizing creams in general. In Africa they are used in food preparation, a major source of their vegetable fats, and are sometimes used by traders (especially chocolate merchants) to replace cocoa butter.
Benefits of shea butter for pregnant
Many pregnant women wonder about the food they care about during pregnancy, so that the fetus gets the vitamins and proteins needed for its proper and proper growth. One of the beneficial foods for pregnant women is shea butter, which has many important benefits for pregnant and fetus alike. As mentioned above, shea butter is extracted from the fruits of the shea tree nut, which is used extensively in the treatment of hair and skin problems, sunburns, skin infections, surgical signs and others.
Pregnant women suffer after the birth of the problem of dilation of the skin and the appearance of cracks, especially in the abdomen and back, so they must use Shea butter through the fat of these areas to get rid of these cracks, in addition to abdominal fat during pregnancy, and get excellent moisturizing for this region In the morning and evening after bathing, there are some women who put the area of the perineum Shea butter to speed up labor, and uses Shea butter for nursing women after pregnancy, through the fat nipples of the breast to prevent cracking and inflammation.
Benefits of Shea Butter
Shea butter is made up of fatty acid, oleic acid and linoleic acid, and absorbed quickly by the skin, because shea butter melts at body temperature.
- Shea butter is used in hair and skin care products and moisturizing.
- Helps heal the skin from wounds, because it contains oleic acid and unsaturated niacinolinic acid.
- Shea butter contains antioxidants such as vitamin A, vitamin E.
- Shea butter is anti-inflammatory, by containing cinnamic acid, which inhibits the growth of tumors, improves the skin and unifies its color.
- It protects against sunburn and is used as a ray of sunshine, especially in winter, because it provides the necessary moisture for the skin.
- Shea butter treats cases of eczema, psoriasis, skin spots, cracks the lips, reduces psoriasis, and is considered to be an antiseptic and a skin allergy.
- Shea butter is struggling with aging.
- Children benefit as skin on the skin after the bath.