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Lovely Shea butter that is organic, wild-harvested, unrefined, unbleached, and fair trade. Shea butter is like a creamy “food” for the skin, it makes the skin smooth and moisturized in a natural way. The scent in the butter comes naturally: it is a fresh, lightly nutty fragrance. No added fragrance or anything else. Shea butter suits all skin types and is especially good for dry and itchy skin with a tendency to eczema. For all ages and the entire body. 160 gram jar.
Organic Shea Butter
This shea butter is organic, wild-harvested, unrefined, unbleached, and fairly traded. Shea butter is like creamy "food" for the skin, making it soft and moisturized in a natural way.
Shea butter is a rich butter full of vitamins such as 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.
Also 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 it more fluid.
Shea butter is a solid butter and becomes harder during the winter months, therefore 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, moisturized 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 have a latex allergy, you should avoid this butter. Those with psoriasis are recommended to do a patch test in the elbow crease 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 in West and Central Africa, where there is an abundance 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 lies the fruit kernel (shea nut). Traditionally, it is the women who collect the fruit and perform the time-consuming work of extracting the fat from the nuts. The process of making shea butter is lengthy. 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 before being turned 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 production techniques that have been employed for thousands of years. The shea butter is a valuable source of income for these people, and the fair trade price enables them to build better amenities for their communities and finance renewable energy projects. In communities where women otherwise have very limited opportunities to earn their own income, this is extremely important both for their own dignity and their position in society. This is why shea butter is often called:
"Women's Gold".
What is the difference between refined and unrefined Shea Butter?
Processed Shea Butter is usually extracted using hexane or other solvents that are petroleum products. The extracted oil is boiled to remove the toxic solvents and then refined. Refining can include filtration, deodorization with hot steam, purification with acids and alkalis, bleaching with absorbent powder, and removal of wax residues through cooling. The scent, in particular, is removed.
Shea cream extracted in this way still contains unwanted solvent residues and its healing properties are obviously significantly reduced or perhaps completely gone. The end result is an odorless, white butter that might be aesthetically pleasing, but lacks the moisturizing, healing, and nourishing properties found in unrefined, organic shea butter. Furthermore, it's not soft and creamy like pure, unrefined shea butter. So it's an easy choice, isn't it?
AKAMUTI sells only natural and organic products. This means no chemicals, synthetic preservatives
Organic and Fairly traded Unrefined Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii).