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Shea Butter: What It Is, What It Does for Our Skin
By Cait Johnson, Assistant Producer, Care2 Healthy Living Channels.
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and every time I’ve opened a magazine lately, there is a picture of a tin of 100% Shea Butter for sale from L’Occitane, who donates part of the proceeds to breast cancer organizations. It got me wondering what shea butter actually is (how do you milk a shea?) and why everybody says it’s the best skin-healer and moisturizer around. A little research convinced me: Everybody needs to know about this fabulous stuff!
Shea butter is a solid fatty oil made from the nuts of Karite Nut trees, also known as Mangifolia, that grow in the semi-arid savannah regions of West and Central Africa. Shea butter is sometimes called “women’s gold,” because extracting the butter from the nuts gives employment and income to hundreds of thousands of rural African village women. Shea butter is so non-toxic and beneficial that it is used in foods and cooking as well as soaps and beauty products. (One of my favorite lip balms is a vanilla-scented treat from La Natura made with shea butter. It is totally delicious!)
African healers and beauties have known about shea butter for thousands of years: the substance is almost magical in its healing effects on burns, skin conditions, ulcerated skin, stretch marks, and dryness.
It contains beneficial vegetable fats that promote cell regeneration and circulation, making it a wonderful healer and rejuvenator for troubled or aging skin. It also contains natural sun-protectants.
To buy a 150 ml tin of 100% pure shea butter for $35 from L’Occitane (proceeds to benefit breast cancer organizations), go to L’Occitane’s website.
Or, to buy pure shea butter for much less, go to Sun Rose Aromatics.
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add your comment »For all those aussies out there looking for shea butter here are two great sites I found:
http://raworganique.com.au/
-this site sells RAW ORGANCIC & UNREFINED Shea Butter and It is fair trade so thats pretty good.
I'm getting some this week.
-another aussie site is: http://www.seoc.com.au/product.asp?pID=3787&cID=263
This Shea Butter is Certified Organic aswell and its an another aussie site.
My health site :) -->
http://www.michellesfoodandhealthsite.yolasite.com/
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You can also purchase 100% pure shea butter from www.tanyasbathandbody.com
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check out www.afroscentric.etsy.com for over 70 ITEMS with shea butter in EACH one. I trained in South Africa 3 years to learn about shea butter...how to mix it, store it, add upon it, whip it (CORRECTLY) & how to ENSURE my clients receive BETTER results...FASTER!
Many sellers provide their customers with shea butter which contains...BACTERIA, MOLD, LEAD, COPPER & YEAST! Be aware of where you get your shea butter...my shea butter is cold processed with no added agents...ALL NATURAL, imported from GHANA.
I believe in adding "UNHEARD OF" amounts of oils, butters & AFRICAN essential oils to my recipes to benefit your skin. Check me out, check out my feedback...it speaks for itself!
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I just bought some this weekend from a flea market a big tub for $5.00 I hope it works.
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another great new site that sells raw unrefined shea butter 2oz and up at reasonable prices is www.naturallymimis.org they sell other wonderful products for the skin aswell. I ordered from them and was very happy with there service I would highly recommend.
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another great new site that sellsl raw unrefined shea butter 2oz and up at reasonable prices is www.naturallymimis.org they sell other wonderful products for the skin aswell. I ordered from them and was very happy with there service I would highly recommend.
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You can also purchase great shea butter from Natures Shea Butter.com. They have the most vaities I have seen. I love their whipped shea butter. But they also have two types of shea butter from West Africa and also one from East Africa. Hope this helps!...here is the link: http://www.naturessheabutter.com/
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You can also visit http://www.theeczemarecipes.com and read more on 100% pure unrefined shea butter and where to get it. Once you start using it, more than likely you will fall in love with it. The only reason I have heard from those that don't like it is because of the smell, which does not bother me one bit
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You could go to those websites mentioned above, but be aware that there are sellers out there who sell REFINED shea butter. This shea butter is not as beneficial & has additives and "cheap fillers" in them. Go to www.afroscentric.etsy.com & discover what my GRADE "A" PREMIUM UNREFINED SHEA BUTTER can do for your skin. My shea butter has been laboratory tested & is PROVEN to have skin healing benefits, moisturizing and protective qualities.
I found little quality control in the Shea Butter industry.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to buy from someone who knows about the products they are selling. You must know about items that you are putting on your skin & your children's skin, would you buy from someone who has NO idea what shea butter is, or how to SAFELY store or blend it?
Many people are only concerned with the bottom line and will sell anything if it makes them a profit. They want to sell good products, but do not have or seek the knowledge required to educate and inform their customers of the best solutions. I believe the best customer is a well informed customer, that is why I stress the importance of asking questions. I want to provide my clients with the BEST quality of products, and that is why I choose to learn as much as possible regarding the products I sell. In order for me to bring the best to you...I must learn & continuously strive to stay up on the newest forms of natural skin care and the effects of the products I sell.
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Shea butter is somewhat like cocoa butter...cocoa butter was known for years ofr stretchmarks, marks, bruises..but recently they found out about shea butter, which is grown in Africa...Shea butter has better moisturizing qualities. Cocoa butter tends to dry out the skin to diminish marks, when Shea butter moisturizes the skin AS it diminishes marks,etc. Check out my items @ www.afroscentric.ecrater.com & go into my Shea Butter Solutions, and u should understand, in more details, the properties of Shea Butter & possibly what it could do for u & ur skin care needs.
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