Shea butter is fat that has been extracted from shea tree nuts. It’s off-white in color and has a creamy consistency that’s easy to spread on your skin.
Shea butter is typically used for its moisturizing effects. Shea butter has significant levels of vitamins A and E, which means it promotes strong antioxidant activity.
High concentrations of fatty acids and vitamins make shea butter an ideal cosmetic ingredient for softening skin. Shea butter also has anti-inflammatory and healing properties. Using shea butter on your body, especially your face, can condition, tone, and soothe your skin.
Firstly, it helps retain moisture and lessen the loss of water by forming a barrier on the skin’s surface. Secondly, it also works to reduce the appearance of rough patches and dry flakes on the skin.
Raw Shea butter can encourage tissue cell regeneration and softening of the skin, which can help to decrease the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It’s no wonder that you can often find Shea butter in many natural anti-ageing facial products.
You can also use shea butter for hair and scalp conditions. When used topically, it helps to seal in moisture, conditioning the scalp, alleviating dandruff and providing overall protection from harsh climates.
Gently warm the shea butter to soften it and rub it thoroughly throughout your hair and scalp. For best results, leave on for 20–30 minutes. Then, rinse, shampoo and condition as normal.
Raw Shea butter is perfect to help eliminate that itchy winter skin. Its moisturising qualities penetrate deep into the skin, offering more moisturising benefits while preventing windburn. It’s perfect for cracked and dry heels, hands, rough elbows and knees.
Because of its amazing healing properties and hydrating qualities, shea butter may possibly reduce the appearance of stretch marks and other scarring. Some people also use it to naturally improve the appearance of cellulite by smoothing and softening the skin.
It makes a great diaper rash ointment for your baby because of its anti-inflammatory and anti fungal properties that can help fight off yeast.
Shea butter is an incredibly low risk topical ingredient. Allergic reactions to Shea butter are rare. Even people who are allergic to tree nuts, the family that Shea nuts belong to, have a low risk of reaction to Shea butter on their face.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any risks to using it. The creamy consistency of Shea butter means that it can be comedogenic. This means that it can clog pores, especially if you have acne-prone skin.
You can manage the risk of this side effect by using shea butter that’s mixed with other ingredients when you use it on your face, and by washing your face well after applying any pure shea butter product.
Shea butter is a proven moisturiser for your skin. It has soothing, anti-ageing, and healing properties that make skin appear smoother and younger. Using pure Shea butter on your face could lead to breakouts, so try purchasing products that contain Shea butter instead of pure shes butter.
So these were the 6 Reasons You Should Have Shea Butter in Your Home. DO you use Shea Butter? Do share how your use it in the comment section below.
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I never knew the positive reasons why you should have shea butter. I just love it because it makes my skin silky smooth and helps stop dry skin.
I love shea butter! It’s def so good for stretch marks!
This is so interesting. I've seen that there is Shea Butter in so many cosmetics, however, I didn't know what this is all about.
I love products with shea butter. It is fantastic, especially for hair
Ohh okay.. I didnt know it had all these benefits. I definitely need to check this out bc my skin care game is for sure lacking. Thanks for the tips!
thanks for sharing this informative post, personally I love shea butter as my lip care & monthly body care. cheers, siennylovesdrawing
Shea butter is the ultimate moisturizer and lotion for me and I also use it all the time, thanks a lot for the information about the benefits and I would love to share it with my friends.
Ok you have convinced me to have a piece in my home hahaha I didn't know that it has so many uses, good! - Amalia
Oh, that's interesting it can reduce stretch marks. Sending this to my friend. Thank you for sharing!
I do love shea butter. I used it in some homemade beauty products recently. It has amazing benefits for the skin.