• Massage Shea butter into areas affected by arthritis, joint pains, or other muscular ache.

• Prevents ashy skin, chapping, and skin rashes.

• An ideal hair dressing that protects the scalp from sores and rashes.

• Helps prevent weak hair from breaking, fading, or thinning out.

• Helps heal scars, burns, and stretch marks.

• Helps rid the scalp of dandruff.

• Helps bruises to heal.

• Helps drain toxins from sore muscles. perfect for sports participants

• Helps prevent skin irritation for babies: used for generations to help babies sleep better.

• Use after shaving to prevent irritation. and to restore skins natural luster.

• Ideal for dry skin, dermatitis, eczema sunburn and athletes foot.

• Rejuvenates skin pores and adds elasticity to skin.

• Firms up aging skin and helps clear wrinkles.

• Naturally contains vitamins A and E.

Shea butter has been used for centuries on the African continent and is completely emmeshed within the history and culture of the west African wooded savanna.

Shea butter is mentioned in almost all African historical documents, including a reference as early as Cleopatra’s Egypt, which mentions caravans bearing clay jars of shea butter for cosmetic use. Shea butter has always been a staple of African pharmacology. Shea butter is the oil from the nuts that are gathered from wild trees scattered throughout the fields and forests of the wooded savanna. Shea butter has many useful properties and has been used as a decongestant, an anti inflammatory for sprains and arthritis, a healing salve for babies umbilical cords and after circumcision, a lotion for hair and skin care, as a cooking oil, and as lamp fuel. However, the protective and emollient properties of shea butter are most valued applied to the skin and hair directly to protect them from drying out in the harsh African environment.

Scientific observations in the 1940’s verfied that occurrence of skin diseases was scarce in populations using shea butter (Pobeda 1999). In recent clinical trials shea butter was found to help to

PROTECT SKIN AGAINST CLIMATE AND UV AGRRESSSIONS

PREVENT WRINKLE FORMATION

SOOTH IRRITATED AND CHAPPED SKIN

MOISTURIZE THE EPIDERMIS

ADDS BODY AND MANAGEABILITY TO HAIR

Shea butter is an important natural resource for the savanna nations. Until recently, Europeans have controlled all shea butter for export by purchasing the shea kernels and chemically extracting the oil using hexane. Most of this shea butter is sold as cocoa butter equivalents in western nations, but some is also sold in the cosmetic market. Chemically extracted shea butter, however, does not retain all the healing an moisturizing properties of traditionally, mechanically procuced shea butter.

She butter is slightly ivory colored butter that consists mostly of triglycerides and unsaponifiables, including Karisterols, Parkeol, Lupeol, Butryospermol, Katitene and cinnamic esters. It is a very versatile active ingredient for skin hair care products, which has execellent anti-aging, soothing and moisturizing properties a recent article published in Global cosmetic Industry recommends shea butter for oil free formalations especially since it has good spreadability and quick rub-in porperties. (Pobeda 1999). Our shea butter is produced using traditional techniques that preserve the healing and moisturizing properties.

Sources:

Pobeda Michel. 1999 shea butter: the rivival of an African wonder. Global Cosemetic Industry April 1999: 34:41

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