What is Shea Butter and why is it good for your skin?
Shea Butter. Ever heard of it? If you’re interested in high quality, safe and natural skin care then it might pay you to learn a little more about Shea butter.
Shea butter is a natural product that comes from the seed of the Shea tree which is found in West Africa in the more tropical regions. The locals have been extracting pure Shea butter from the nut of the tree for centuries because it is very good for cooking and eating.
The product directly extracted from the nut of the tree is called unrefined Shea butter, or pure Shea butter. It is also possible to get refined Shea butter which is used for other purposes, such as for putting on your skin.
Because whilst Shea butter is good for cooking it’s also good for your skin. It is known for its lush moisturising properties, common to many moisturising butters, and is particularly useful for moisturising dry skin.
One of the major reasons why Shea butter works so successfully at natural moisturising is because it is packed with a range of essential fatty acids. Many of these penetrate the skin very successfully and are extremely beneficial to good health, and for these reasons it has been known for its ability to relieve dryness and promote good skin hydration.
The oils found in Shea butter are extremely similar to the oils which are naturally produced by the sebaceous glands in your skin, one of the reasons for its effectiveness as a moisturiser. This also means that it is effective at reducing wrinkles and improving skin elasticity, and is also effective at reducing stretchmarks after pregnancy, and so can be used in skin care products designed to tackle stretchmarks. It softens the skin very effectively.
Shea butter is also packed with a wide range of vitamins, particularly vitamin E and A.
As well as relieving skin dryness it is also known for its healing abilities, and it particularly helps reduce itchy skin for those who suffer from dry skin and itchiness, and can help heal skin rashes and blemishes.
Unlike many ingredients used in brand-name moisturisers Shea butter does not clog the pores of the skin and is readily absorbed into the skin. One of the most common ingredients in moisturisers is mineral oil. Mineral oil clogs the pores and can exacerbate acne.
Shea butter is a safe and natural ingredient used only in the highest quality natural skin care products. Research has shown that the use of Shea butter can improve your skin softness and smoothness in as little as 4 to 6 weeks.
So if Shea butter works so effectively at producing optimum skin care why isn’t it used in more skin care products? Because it’s expensive.
Common ingredients such as mineral oil are dramatically cheaper than Shea butter.
The obvious conclusion must be that high quality natural skin care products which use ingredients like Shea butter and others are very expensive, however this is not necessarily true, they are in fact quite competitive priced.
The reason is that the company that makes the highest quality natural skin care products using Shea butter don’t spend millions of dollars on advertising, so they can direct those savings into high quality ingredients.
And they can produce products that are so effective that they can also afford to back up their products with a full 90 day money back guarantee, which they do. Read the rest of this entry
Written by All Natural Skin Care