Shea butter is a heavy fat/oil, extracted from the seeds of the fruit of the karite tree, which is native to African countries including Ehtiopia, Chad, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, South Sudan, etc. It has been used since ages ago for moisturizing and protecting skin & hair from wind, the sun and germs in the environment that can cause infection. Shea butter is rich in powerful anti oxidants and nutrients, as seen below, which makes it so good for hair: Nutrients found in Shea Butter Vitamins – Shea butter is rich in vitamins A, E and K. Vitamin E applied on the scalp is said to help combat hair loss in many Continue Reading
Properties & Benefits of Shea Butter for Hair
Discover the properties and benefits of shea butter for hair! Most people use shea butter for skin and don't really use it for their hair. However, in this post, I'll show you how amazing Shea butter is for hair and why you should start using it in your natural hair care routine! Shea butter is a great natural hair boosting ingredient especially when used in the right amounts. Remember using too much of shea butter, or any oil/butter, will weigh the hair down and make it slick and greasy! Check out the different ways you can use shea butter for your natural hair by clicking the image below: Properties of Continue Reading
5 Shea Butter Recipes for Natural Hair
Hello, beauties! Today I'm sharing 5 must-try shea butter recipes for all you gals out there with natural hair. You don’t need a whole load of products to help manage natural hair, you can simply whip up your own natural hair moisturizer, conditioner, hair masks and even a scalp massage oil with natural ingredients as seen below. Alright! It’s time to bounce your curls back to life with these 5 easy shea butter recipes for natural hair: Note: For most of the recipes below, I actually used East Shea Butter a.k.a Shea Butter Nilotica and I can tell you that it's so much better than West Shea Butter because of Continue Reading
15 Shea Butter Benefits for Skin
The last pharaoh, Cleopatra, who was known for her ethereal beauty also used shea butter in her beauty regimen. Early accounts describe trade caravans carrying clay pots filled with this beauty butter all the way up to Egypt from other parts of Africa. Other women in Africa also used shea butter to moisturize their skin, as well as protect it from stretch marks and infection. It’s been thousands of years but shea butter is still being used and valued as an excellent beauty product and skin protector even today. And now it’s your turn to add this amazing skin product to your beauty pantry! But first, you Continue Reading
Soothing & Romantic | DIY Shea Body Butter Recipe
Shea Butter – The Skin’s Super food Shea butter is slowly rising in popularity in the natural beauty world – but it has been used by African communities since ancient times for healing, medicinal, food and cosmetic purposes. Shea butter is extracted from the nuts of the Karite tree, which is native to certain African countries like Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso (in Western Africa) and Sudan and Uganda (in the East African regions). Shea butter was once regarded as a precious commodity and evidence shows that it was used by Ancient Egyptians for cosmetic and other uses. Shea butter is an ivory-colored, solid fat Continue Reading