Shea Butter
Shea butter is defined as a type of fat that is extracted from the inside of the shea nut (mold) through three successive processes. It is broken, boiled, mixed, covered with shea butter in ivory, used in many cosmetics and used as a cream. And in Western Africa they are used by some to prepare food. For them, they are the main source of vegetable fat, and sometimes used by chocolate traders instead of cocoa butter.
How to Use Shea Butter
- Clean the area to be greased or treated with shea butter by water and then dry the place well of water.
- Take the amount of butter and place the place with circular movements for five and ten minutes.
- Clear excess butter outside the place to be greased using cotton.
- Leave on the skin for an hour, then wash with water and shampoo.
Benefits and uses of Shea butter
- Moisturizes the skin in general and on the face in particular as it gives the skin softness moisture and reduce the appearance of wrinkles skin.
- The skin is especially sensitive to rough areas such as the elbows area and the knees area.
- Bring them body balm, mixed with oil of any other kind.
- Helps to exfoliate the body and remove the dead skin, by gently massage the body before the use of peeled sugar on the body.
- Beneficial to the skin of children, especially infants, and acts as an antidote to inflammation.
- Used to care for feet in order to maintain their moisture and protect them from cracking.
- Treatment of scaling and soothing of the scalp, especially due to dehydration.
- Moisturizing the lips through the massage of the lips to give them a great moisture and softness.
- Stretch symptoms are treated in the skin by regular and frequent massage of these symptoms.
- Works to treat scars, pigmentation and pimples resulting from acne.
- It is useful to treat burns caused by the sun because of the long exposure to the sun so that massage Shea butter and burn areas will help to hide and treatment because it contains cinnamic acid.
- Used in massage work, by using a few of them and massage it.
- Shea butter can be used to treat scratches and cuts.
The difference between raw and refined shea butter
- Shea butter is raw or non-refined: it is extracted from the fruit of the shea tree by hand or through the so-called expulsion method, and these methods keep the contents of butter useful minerals, vitamins and others intact and complete.
- Shea butter is refined by chemical substances and mostly uses chemical and formaldehyde to dissolve the nut to get shea butter through refining, but in this way shea butter loses a lot of beneficial contents of minerals and vitamins and its therapeutic and moisturizing properties.