21 uses for shea butter

From the AMERICAN SHEA INSTITUTE:

21 REASONS TO USE SHEA BUTTER:

Shea Butter will provide improvement in all the conditions listed below. As you use this multi-purpose cream you are likely to discover additional uses. The amount of time required for optimum results with various conditions may vary with each condition. Wrinkles, for example, require 4 to 6 weeks of daily use. Itching is relieved immediately.

1. Dry skin
02. skin rash
03. Skin peeling, after tanning
04. Blemishes and wrinkles
05. Itching skin
06. Sunburn
07. Shaving cream for a smooth silky shave.
08. Small skin wounds
09. Skin cracks
10. Tough or rough skin (on feet.)
11. Cold weather,
12. Frost bites
13. Stretch mark prevention during pregnancy
14. Insect bites
15. Healthy skin
16. Muscle fatigue, aches and tension
17. For before and after strenuous exercise
18. Skin allergies such as poison ivy or poison oak
19. Eczema
20. Dermatitis
21. Skin damage from heat (hot grease while cooking, radiation treatment for certain medical problems, etc.)

Premium Shea Butter is a soft uniformly beige colored creamy solid that readily melts in the hands and is quickly absorbed by the skin..

Vitamin A in Shea Butter is important for improving a number of skins conditions, including blemishes wrinkles, eczema, and dermatitis. Additionally, Premium Shea Butter cream has properties to treat skin allergies, insect bites, sunburns, frostbites, and a number of other conditions of the skin. Shea Butter’s unparalleled moisturizing property is due to several natural moisturizers present in the cream. The moisturizers in Shea Butter are the same moisturizers produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin. If you buy the concept that the skin sebaceous glands produce moisturizers for the skin, then it’s no wonder that Shea Butter is such a superior moisturizer.

Agbange – Pure, unrefined shea butter has a myriad of uses. We have outlined a few for you below: (this is what we use at Verdae Skin Therapy)

• Dry skin
• Chapped skin or lips

• Sun damaged skin
• Wrinkles
• Stretch marks
• Scars and blemishes
• Eczema
• Cracked and dry heals or elbows
• Small wounds and scrapes
• Diaper rash (prevention and relief)
• Hair & Dread maintenance
• Insect bites & stings
• Arthritis
• Muscle fatigue, aches & tension (excellent massage oil)
• Burns
• Athletes Foot and other fungal infections
• Dogs & other pets (skin infections, dry skin & coats)
• Natural mechanics lubricant
• Horses (hoof maintenance, sunburn, scrapes)

Shea butter is a 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 and hair care products,which has excellent anti-aging, soothing and moisturizing properties.

Shea contains a natural latex, so people with latex allergies should do a patch test before using it.

This is the best stuff for your skin, bar none!