Shea Butter – A Better Butter For Your Body (& Your Best Skin)

unrefined shea butter is your best choice

A good rich creme. A good rich creme for my skin. A good rich creme for my skin that will give me my glow back. 

This, I hear a lot. In answer to this plea, I highly recommend Olive Oil Creme for my women friends who are clamoring for help, and Olive Oil Creme is exactly that, a good rich creme. Olive oil is another wonderful ingredient for skin health.

However, options are good.

So, I have been experimenting with a formula for a luscious face & body butter that contains two key ingredients; coconut oil and Shea butter.

I am in love with unrefined Shea butter. 

I have had a love affair with coconut oil for some time now.  I eat it, and I slather it on my skin, but Shea butter has been new to me.

This combination, of Shea butter and coconut oil,  is simply divine. Divine, I tell you. It melts right into your skin, and absorbs, instantly relieving any rough or dry skin. Aahhh.

Let me tell you a bit about Shea Butter: It is -

  • naturally rich in vitamins A & E, both of which help to hydrate, soothe and balance the skin
  • naturally rich in Vitamin F, which contains essential fatty acids to help protect damaged skin and hair
  • wonderful for dry and aging skin, helping to retain elasticity, and great for wrinkles!
  • a circulation boost
  • anti-inflammatory
  • good for repairs of cellular degradation, promoting skin renewal & can accelerate wound healing
  • good for dry skin all over your body, including your scalp and even your hair
  • also good for itchy, rashy skin, skin allergies, stretch marks, sun burn, rough skin, insect bites, muscle aches and fatigue

WOW!

Oh, and did I mention it is a natural UV protectant, with about an SPF of 6!

You can use Shea butter straight out of the jar, on your skin, or scalp. You can add it to your bath water,  a spoonful under running warm water for a natural luxurious bath oil. Coat your dry, rough feet in it and sleep with warm cozy socks on during a cold winters night. Apply it to scars, stretch marks or blemishes to minimize them.

Oh, I could go on, and on.

Be sure you are using unrefined, raw Shea butter. It will have more of an odor than refined Shea butter, but  the odor does lesson on contact with your skin.

The best source I have found for Shea butter is Mountain Rose Herbs, or you may find it in your local Whole Foods Market or similar Healthy Food Chain.

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Written by Lisa DL

Lisa D Liguori is the founder and beauty expert behind Simple Beauty Minerals, a green healthy-beauty marketplace, featuring handcrafted mineral makeup, botanically based organic skincare and pure essential oils - with a seriously skilled personal touch.

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  • http://frustratedfarmgirl.wordpress.com/ Robin Johnson Simpson

    Love this, Lisa!  I’d love to try your shea body butter!  I’ve made salves  with beeswax, olive oil and EO, but I haven’t added shea butter- what a wonderful idea!  I have a great organic, Fair Trade shea butter supplier out of Uganda if you’re interested.  Let me know. 

  • http://www.StyleEssentials.com Lisa D Liguori-Style Essential

    Robin, always good to hear from you! I will add you to my list of testers. Thanks~! I would LOVE the contact info for your supplier of shea butter. Thanks! Still interested in your fair trade soaps, btw.

  • http://alisongolden.com Alison Golden

    Ooooh, can I try some? My face has been feeling tight recently.

  • http://www.StyleEssentials.com Lisa D Liguori-Style Essential

    Of course! You can be one of my testers as well. Let’s talk about that tight skin on your face a bit more as well. Are you exfoliating?

  • Good Girl Gone Green

    I love shea butter! I also use it on my daughter’s butt when changing her diaper! All great info. Thanks for sharing! Definitely worth pinning!!! :)

  • http://www.StyleEssentials.com Lisa D Liguori-Style Essential

    Oh, I love those cute baby bottoms! I wish I had known about Shea Butter when my kids were babes.

  • Anonymous

    Now that you’ve learned more about unrefined shea butter, do you eat it also?  I have been trying to find information about eating and cooking with it but, am not having much luck.  I read so far that women in East and West Africa cook with it and I would like to try incorporating it as well.

  • Lisa D Liguori

    Good question. I have not done my research on that yet. Thanks for bringing it up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001287044794 Becky Smit Vander Pol

    I loved your comments, Lisa.  I had been checking online to see if Shea Butter is edible.  I feel good using products on my skin that I feel safe eating too.  It was interesting to me that you were mixing Shea Butter and Coconut Oil for a body cream.  I had just started doing the same thing….except I was adding cocoa butter to it too.  I have battled overly dry skin on my legs ever since I can remember.  This homemade body butter is working SO SO well!! It’s like a miracle!  If you want to try adding the cocoa butter too your combo, I advise melting it first before adding the shea butter and coconut oil.  It has a higher melting point.  Then I just mixed the others to it.  And all of it is edible!  :)   (I love coconut oil too, by the way.)

  • http://www.StyleEssentials.com Lisa D Liguori-Style Essential

    Thanks Becky, cocoa butter is wonderful too. Although it has such a distinct odor, that I am selective in what concoctions I use it in. You either love it or, not so much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001287044794 Becky Smit Vander Pol

    yep, it has a smell.  I wonder what I could add to it so that I would not smell so “chocolately-sweet” when I use it.  I am getting used to it though, just because it works so well.  :)   Do you have any other ideas/suggestions? 

  • http://www.StyleEssentials.com Lisa D Liguori-Style Essential

    I wish I did. The aroma of Cocoa Butter is strong enough that it overpowers so many others. That said, it is not a bad scent. You either love it or you don’t. It is a matter of experimenting with just enough cocoa butter to get the benefits of it, and not too much to overpower your nose ;-) Next time I play around with a formula with it, I will try some different essential oil and see what happens. If you come up with something, let me know as well.