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Shea Butter
Shea Butter
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Shea butter offers multiple uses (food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, lighting, etc.). Besides being rich in unsaturated fatty acids, it also contains phytosterols, vitamins, and especially unsaponifiable matter (approximately 5%). Anti-irritant and stimulating to the upper layers of the epidermis, shea butter possesses excellent protective properties. Its exceptional unsaponifiable content gives it an emollient and anti-inflammatory action, promoting the penetration of active ingredients such as unsaturated fats and naturally occurring vitamins. Shea butter: - Very good for the skin, it nourishes it and forms a protective film that prevents dehydration. - Especially suitable for dry and damaged skin. It protects the skin from cold and harsh weather. - Can be used as a lip balm, soothing chapped lips and giving them a shine. - Also nourishes hair. It can be used as a mask or shampoo for dry and damaged hair. Applied before swimming, it protects hair from drying out. Shea butter is solid at room temperature. It melts at a temperature close to 30°C.
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Botanical
Shea, Butyrospermum parkii, of the Sapotaceae family (variety Vitellaria Pardoxa), comes from trees that grow wild without treatment. They have a very long lifespan and bear fruit from their fifteenth year onwards. The fruits are fleshy, grow in clusters of green, oval-shaped fruit.
Manufacturing
ECOCert & Organic Fair Trade
The fresh, ripe fruit is gathered by women as it falls from the tree, between mid-June and mid-September. The nuts are desiccated, washed, boiled for an hour, and then sun-dried. The kernel, containing the fat used to make butter, is removed. The kernels are crushed with a pestle, roasted, and then taken to the mill for grinding: a brownish paste is obtained. Next comes the churning stage: the paste is kneaded and mixed with water to produce a whitish paste. The butter is left to settle and filtered through cloth. It is then bleached, filtered again, deodorized, winterized, and packaged.
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