You know how glowing your skin looks, how thick and healthy your hair feels, and the sense of Zen you experience after having a day at the spa? It’s worth the splurge. But you don’t have to shell out monthly for it. Just use raw shea butter. Raw shea butter can give you the complete spa treatment at home! Let’s start with the skin. Are you ready for healthy, vibrant skin that’s strong, smooth, and tight? Come on, who isn’t!? You can spend a hundred dollars on a spa-grade facial, or much less on raw wildcrafted shea butter and get the same fabulous results. Raw shea butter drenches the skin in moisture, reduces wrinkles, soothes pimples, calms eczema, and simply...
One of the beautiful things about raw African shea butter is its seemingly endless versatility. If you’ve got a problem, chances are that shea butter can help. Got a sunburn? Put some shea on it. Rash or inflammation? Shea should do the trick. Itchy bug bite? Just cover it in shea! It is truly a wonderful anti-aging balm chock full of healing substances, not the least of which are antioxidants such as these: Vitamin A- a powerful anti-aging compound that is also found naturally in the skin. It plays a fundamental role in the regulation of skin cell activity, helps repair damaged tissue, and assists in the acceleration of new and healthy skin cell production. Vitamin E- this antioxidant also...
In the world of plant-based skincare, where the ingredients in your product come from is just as important as the ingredients used! We’re talking in terms of ecological sourcing, but really in terms of truly understanding how the plant, and thus your skin product, works. That’s why today we are talking about where shea butter comes from – the karite tree! It’s like this: You may know that raw shea butter is incredibly moisturizing and has loads of organic compounds like copper, sulfur and even omega 6. It’s these nutrients that heal everything from eczema and acne to dandruff and hair thinning. But, did you know that the karite tree grows wild in Burkina Faso, completely uncultivated, surviving in Mother Nature...
Do you love raw African shea butter, but sometimes wish it was just a little more refined? Perhaps the nutty smell that so many people adore just isn’t for you, or maybe you imagine toning down its exotic golden hue. In either case, we have just the thing for you: cold-pressed ultra refined African shea butter. Cold processing is a method of extracting the oils from a seed or nut that does not use high levels of heat. The seeds or nuts are first ground into a paste, and then pressed between an oil- stone to release the oils intended for use. We choose to cold press our ultra refined shea as a way to keep the integrity of the...
One of the most wondrous yet overlooked things about shea butter is that with every creamy, deluxe spread of this gorgeous salve, you empower women on the other side of the Atlantic! In West Africa, especially in the country of Burkina Faso where we harvest and produce our shea butter, shea nuts are the exclusive property of women. They are the only ones who pick and craft the shea butter and they receive all of the profits for the sale of it. That’s why in Africa, shea butter is called “women’s gold”! In the past, even though West African women still had sole propriety over shea nuts and butter, large cosmetic companies that used the butter in their lipsticks and...
