When winter comes around, the moisture in our skin goes crashing down. Freezing cold temperatures, biting winds, and every extreme in between becomes a threat to the soft, supple skin you’ve worked so hard to nourish and care for. But there’s no need to fear for the integrity of your skin; naturally specialized botanicals are here to deliver the kind of moisture and protection you need to keep your face protected and perfectly primed during this harsh and cold time. Raw African Shea butter provides the perfect balance of protective barrier, deep moisture, and anti aging compounds to keep your skin happy and damage-free through the sometimes long and arduous winter season. Think of your skin during this time as...
At some point in your life, you’re going to develop a scar. If it didn’t happen when you were a child, it’s bound to happen during another point of your life. And while it’s up to the individual to decide if the appearance of a particular scar bothers them or not, you can take simple steps to nourish and help the healing of any cuts, scrapes and burns you might get, and in the process prevent or diminish the formation of a scar. Below we offer you a simple recipe of raw African Shea butter and Lavender essential oil for the speedy healing of wounds and scars. The tissue regenerative properties of Lavender essential oil were actually discovered by a...
There’s nothing better than pure plant oils to heal and strengthen the skin. They’re balancing, beautifying, and so easy to use. While we are obviously huge fans of raw African Shea butter for all things skincare, we know there are other wonderfully healing plant oils out there as well. Sometimes we even mix them together, blended with Shea butter in a healing lipid rich slurry of skincare goodness. And one of our favorite and quite popular plant oils for skincare is Jojoba oil. Golden, silky, light and with an effortless glide, Jojoba oil is actually a plant wax with a chemical composition very similar to that of human sebum. Because of this, Jojoba oil is exceptionally easy for the skin...
If you already use Shea butter on your face, then you know the kind of soft, plump and radiant skin that comes from it. It doesn’t really need anything else added to it in order to be effective. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t add other ingredients to your Shea butter. If you want even more advanced anti aging results from your Shea butter skincare, blending in a few different ingredients is not only effective and easy, it’s also fun. For a gentle and effective anti aging Shea butter face cream, all you need is some raw African Shea butter and a few high quality essential oils. For this recipe we’ve included some of our favorite essential oils for skin, but feel...
With the skincare market getting more and more saturated with Shea butter and Shea butter type products, you might find yourself asking what kind of things you should be looking for when making your purchase decision. Is it better refined, or raw? What about ivory, or yellow? Ghana, or Burkina Faso? All of these things are very good questions, and we’re here to point you in the right direction. Below are some things to consider when making your Shea butter skincare buying decision. If you want to get the most bang for your buck, then you want to buy Shea butter that is completely raw and unrefined. This is because the refinement process takes with it a huge portion of...
