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RAW SHEA BUTTER: SUPER BEAUTY SKIN CONDITIONER

Rich, luminous beauty is now yours. Raw Shea Butter is a skin-softening, luster producing conditioner and moisturizer that slows aging, improves radiance and keeps skin (and hair!) healthy and smooth. Raw Shea Butter brings ga-ga gorgeous looks to anyone who uses it.  On top of this, Raw Wildcrafted Shea Butter is used by some people to help with their eczema, dermatitis, dandruff, rashes, bruises, blemishes and much more! The key is how the Shea nuts are harvested. Shea Butter that has been crafted and harvested from wild-growing trees has great medicinal value than Shea Butter crafted from cultivated trees. Wild growing trees don’t receive daily pampering care and as such, they develop a vibrancy and vitality required to live in the wild.  Shea Butter crafted...

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RAW SHEA BUTTER: ITS AFRICAN ROOTS!

Africa- the continent of rhythm, incredible patterned clothing and the magnificent, emollient RAW Shea Butter. Shea Butter is extracted from the nut of the Karite Tree.  Karite Trees can be cultivated anywhere on the globe with the correct climate, but only grow wild in the equatorial region of West Africa. Here, Karite Trees soak up the African sun! They pull in nutrients from ancient soil untarnished from pesticides, fertilized only by what naturally decomposes in the ground and the occasional manure of local animals.  Shea nuts that come from Karite Trees of this kind literally take their intelligence from the roots- which are deep in hearty, clay rich, humid soil of Africa! The beauty benefits of this amazing salve date back...

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TRADITIONAL USES OF SHEA BUTTER IN AFRICA

Shea has become quite the popular beauty balm recently, with more and more people discovering the many anti aging and therapeutic benefits of this rich plant butter. But the use of Shea butter is nothing new and the people of Africa have been using shea for literally thousands of years for everything from beauty and baby balms to infection protection and as a natural childbirth aid. Perhaps by looking at some of the traditional uses for shea, we can better learn how to use it for ourselves. Shea butter’s use can be tracked all the way to Cleopatra in ancient Egypt, where early accounts speak of large caravans carrying clay jars of the stuff for her to use. But Cleopatra...

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THE BENEFITS OF WILDCRAFTED SHEA BUTTER

The soul of 24Karite Gold is our Raw Unfiltered Wildcrafted Shea Butter.  Shea Butter in its raw, unfiltered state is an unbelievably lavish and curative treatment.  When that Shea Butter is also wildcrafted, (as ours is) the benefits of this remarkable and sensuous balm are exponentially increased. Wildcrafting, also called wildharvesting, is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural, or "wild" habitat, for food, medicinal, or other purposes.  Essentially, wildcrafting means that the plants used taken from nature and not from farms.  This means these plants are totally non-GMO, non-industrialized and organic. Lastly, wildcrafting means that the benefit of a plant’s medicinal components skyrockets.   Wildcrafted plants are astonishingly more powerful than commercially-grown plants.  Wildcrafted plants are superior because...

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DIY SHEA BUTTER SHAVING CREAM

It’s not spring…yet.  We know you’re itching to break out the shorts and start wearing those mini skirts…sans tights! It’s so liberating to move about the world in bare legs!  But there’s one thing you do have to remember to do that you didn’t have to worry about while bundled up in pants for the winter- shaving your legs.   A complete Spring/Summer look includes clean, smooth, radiant legs!  It’s easy to do that with this DIY shea butter shaving cream.   Shea Butter plumps and softens the hair cuticle, for easy and painless removal.  It imparts deep moisture, giving your legs an alluring, touchable look. Lastly, Shea Butter is loaded with tons of nutrients (like Omega-9 and Omega-6 fatty acids, Vitamins...

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