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Lovely shea butter that is organic, wild-harvested, unrefined, unbleached, and Fairtrade. Shea butter is like creamy "food" for the skin, it makes the skin smooth and hydrated in a natural way. The scent comes naturally from the butter: it is a fresh, lightly nutty scent. No added fragrance or anything else. Shea butter suits all skin types but is especially good for dry and itchy skin prone to eczema. For all ages. This is a small 40-gram jar that is perfect to carry in your handbag.
Organic Shea Butter
This shea butter is organic, wild-harvested, unrefined, unbleached, and fairly traded. Shea butter acts as creamy "food" for the skin, making it soft and moisturized in a natural way.
- Shea butter is a rich butter full of vitamins A, E, and F.
- It provides the skin with lots of moisture and suits all skin types, even very dry ones.
- Ideal for chafed, red skin, hard and dry skin, sunburn, itchy skin, insect bites, eczema, and diaper rash.
- Can be mixed with some organic oil if you want to make it more "liquid".
- Works well for dry elbows, heels, and lips.
- Good for sore muscles and for preventing stretch marks and wrinkles.
- Said to be good for nasal congestion, simply apply a small amount in the nose.
- Can be mixed with e.g. coconut oil or a favorite oil if you want
make it more fluid.
Shea butter is a solid butter that becomes harder during the winter months, which is why it's best stored at room temperature. If it's hard, soften it between your hands before applying it to the body. Tip: Before going to bed, moisturize your feet (put on socks, otherwise it gets sticky) and you'll wake up with soft, hydrated feet.
Ingredients/INCI: 100% organic and fair trade Shea Butter/Butyrospermum parkii - unrefined and unbleached. Nothing else! Shea butter naturally contains a substance similar to latex, so if you are allergic to latex, you should avoid this butter. Those with psoriasis are recommended to do a patch test in the crook of their arm before using shea butter, as shea butter stimulates cell renewal.
Where does shea butter come from?
Shea butter is the fat from the nuts of the wild Shea Tree/Karité Nut Tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) found in semi-arid savannas of West and Central Africa where there is an
wealth of local and traditional knowledge about how to produce and use shea butter. The tree can live up to 300 years. Almost all parts of the tree have some practical use. The locals themselves call the shea tree the "tree of life".
Flower clusters on the tree develop into fruit clusters, and the ripe fruits fall to the ground. Inside the outer shell is the fruit kernel (shea nut). Traditionally, it is the women who collect the fruit and do the time-consuming work of extracting the fat from the nuts. The process of making shea butter is long. First, the outer fruit flesh must be removed, then the nuts are boiled, then crushed, then sun-dried, and finally they are roasted and ground, and then made into butter.
Our shea butter (Akamuti) comes from Ghana in West Africa and is produced by a women's cooperative.
It is wild-harvested, meaning they use harvesting and manufacturing techniques that have been used for thousands of years. The shea butter is a valuable source of income for
Organic and Fairly Traded Unrefined Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii).