100% Yellow Unrefined Shea butter.
Shea butter is a skin and hair super-food that comes from the seeds of the fruit of the Shea (Karite) tree and that is naturally rich in vitamins A, E and F. Yellow Shea butter gets it color from the Borututu tree used for centuries to make teas and topical preparations that will help detox and heal inflammations. The Borututu root is shredded and added to the milling step of Shea butter production, and the result is a Shea Butter that has a pretty bright yellow colour and infused with incredible antioxidants and healing elements in addition to those of our Ivory Shea Butter.
The benefits of shea butter come from its chemical makeup. Shea butter contains:
- Linoleic, palmitic, stearic, and oleic fatty acids, ingredients that balance oils on your skin.
- Vitamins A, E, and F, antioxidant vitamins that promote circulation and healthy skin cell growth.
- Ttriglycerides, the fatty part of the shea nut that nourishes and conditions your skin.
- Cetyl esters, the waxy part of the shea nut butter that conditions skin and locks in moisture.
Benefits: Helps to improve skin health, aids in reducing inflammation of skin, helps to reduce appearance of scars on skin, reduces signs of aging such as wrinkles, Prevents onset of male pattern baldness and great for baby skin & bum.
Ingredients: Shea Nut, Borututu tree bark
Application: Apply on skin or hair as desired. DIY body butters