African Shea Butter offers many therapeutic and pharmaceutical properties that everyone can benefit from. Our focus here is how African Shea Butter affects ethnic skin and hair. As African Shea Butter comes to the forefront in the health and beauty industry, we take notice of it many uses and benefits.

Let’s take a look at what Shea butter contains that makes it so in demand by the cosmetic world and pharmaceutical world. Shea Butter contains fatty acids {polyunsaturated} that is unremovable.

The fatty acids contained in the Shea butter are:
1. Stearic
2. Palmitic
3. Oleic
4. Linolenic
5. Alpha-Linolenic

These fatty acids are important by all life. Shea Butter also contains Allantoin which aides in the regeneration of cells, especially in the cosmetic and therapeutic industries.

Shea Butter fatty acids show up as glycerides, more commonly known as triglycerides, of the 3 glcerides that exists. Triglycerides are more commonly found in all life forms. These fatty acids are very essential to the building blocks of cell regeneration in cosmetics i.e. anti-aging, soaps, lotions, creams, hair conditioners and shampoos.

Shea Butter allows moisture from the air around you to be absorbed by the actual skin cells. This is called hydration. You’re nourishing the skin at the cellular levels. Moisturizing is protecting the skin from losing moisture to the air around you. For example: you work in very dry environments. In all essence Shea butter is a hydrator. It rehydrates the loss of moisture on a cellular level.

African Shea Butter offers numerous benefits. It is also very nourishing to the skin. Shea butter in its most natural state, after processing, contains Vitamin A & D and we all know what A & D do for our skin. It gives protection against sun damage. It also helps the skin heal from sunburn. Some of you I know still burn even if you are dark skinned. I am African American and I burn very easily and it hurts in the healing process. Shea Butter Aloe Vera are great skin soothers and speeds up the body's natural healing process. It’s a natural UV/UB blocker as well. This is protection ,for ethnic women, in the fight against skin cancer.

Shea Butter offers great rewards, with consistent use, no matter who you are. Shea butter will improve most ethnic skin conditions such as itchy dry skin and skin affected by the elements of nature. Shea butter is for use on dark spots, scars and stretch marks. It evens out skin tones and help with discoloration. African Shea Butter is great for eczema and dermatitis. In my opinion it works better than oatmeal in relieving the itch associated with dermatitis and eczema.

It is very soothing when applied to minor scrapes, burns and scratches. Did you also know that Shea butter helps with muscle tension and aches. You can apply it before and after strenuous exercise to help tired muscles. Shea butter is also good at healing skin imperfections and reduce the appearance of the scars that may form. Some even use Shea Butter to help relieve swelling and pain from arthritic conditions.

Of course as you look at the many uses of Shea you begin to realize the different markets it plays in. In order to reap the benefits, you must make sure you’re using the highest grade possible, the purest form available (without over processing) and without the use of harmful chemicals that will destroy the Shea Butter's proprietary properties. There is a therapeutic grade then there is a pharmaceutical grade. These are the grades you want to look for when choosing a Shea Butter product. These grades will offer you the best possible results of using Shea Butter.

Also you must remember certain chemical ingredients will also minimize the proprietary properties of Shea Butter. Especially, Hexane, a chemical used in the extracting process of Shea Butter.

There is a history and story behind African Shea Butter since it is only found in Africa. The African Shea Tree with-stands some unique demands from the geography of which it grows, to the government finding a way for the economy to thrive and improving the quality of life for the African people and their families.

These Africans are the ones who harvest, process and extract the Shea butter.
It is about a 30hr processing method to extract the Shea butter to formulate all the different products it is used in around the world today. With the price of cocoa, Shea Butter is on its way to the top, almost more exclusively than cocoa butter.

So give Shea Butter a try and decide or yourself if it works for you. There are many ways to use it so have fun too.

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