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Shea Butter is one of the oldest butters in existence. For thousands of years, this special butter has been traditionally harvested and processed by millions of women across large parts of the African savannah and used for its many skin benefits.
Opinions about the scent of Shea Butter may be divided, but many fans would never go back. That's because you can use it for so many things!
In this article you'll find 19 ways to use Shea Butter in your beauty routine. There's also a fun recipe for a Unicorn Body Butter hidden in this article.
Shea Butter absorbs fairly quickly and keeps the skin hydrated for a long time. Shea Butter is what's called an 'emollient'. The term 'emollient' is used for ingredients that have the ability to soften the skin. It comes from the Latin verb 'mollire', which means 'to soften'. Emollients are often found in moisturisers and act as a kind of extra skin barrier that prevents the skin from losing moisture. Shea Butter locks moisture into the skin so your skin keeps its beautiful glow.
How to use: As a day cream you only need a tiny amount. Spread a small dab over your hands and apply it to your face. You can also apply a nice thick layer before you go to sleep and use it as an intensely nourishing night mask.
Anti and wrinkle in one word is actually a strange combination. Getting wrinkles is just part of life, isn't it? So you could also call it a loving-wrinkle cream. Because we can be kind to them, right?
Our skin is the largest organ we have. We carry it with us our whole life and expose it to all kinds of challenges. Challenges in the form of UV radiation, exhaust fumes and irritants. But also in the form of diet, hereditary factors or illness. They are responsible for the formation of free radicals in our skin. As a result, the skin can lose its radiance and elasticity.
Shea Butter cares for mature skin. It contains cinnamic acid, and the Vitamins A & E keep the skin supple, nourished and radiant. With daily use, your skin feels more supple.
Use it as a day or night cream as described in point 1, or apply it to areas that need a little extra care, such as your hands and neck. Massage it in well and firmly.
Shea Butter is also lovely care for blemish-prone skin. Contrary to what many people think, Shea Butter does not clog the pores. It can even help support the skin's lipid barrier.
Shea butter contains a huge number of different special fatty acids. One of them is cinnamic acid, a special fatty acid that you don't often find. This fatty acid helps care for rough and dry skin. The result: calm skin that feels soft again.
Toss a few tablespoons of Shea Butter into a hot bath and give the skin on your body a real spa treatment. This protects your skin against the drying effect of the water, and you're already nicely moisturised when you get out.
Shea Butter is wonderful for massaging tired and stiff muscles. Try using it as a lovely massage oil and treat yourself or someone else to a relaxing Shea Butter massage.
How to use: Spread a teaspoon over your hands and massage the parts of your body that feel stiff and tired.
Shea Butter is an excellent alternative to the regular commercial nappy cream you can find at the chemist. Well-known baby brands are big fans of mineral oils. You know, the stuff that also comes from crude oil. That's not so strange, because mineral oil stays on the skin and forms an excellent protective layer. It's also cheap and odourless. However, it doesn't do much else for the skin.
There are also natural alternatives that achieve the same result. Shea Butter, for example. Straight from the jar, Shea Butter creates a natural sealing layer. The stearic acid responsible for this protects delicate baby skin. In addition, the Vitamins A and E in Shea Butter help care for baby skin.
How to use: After a bath or nappy change, apply Shea Butter to your baby's bottom. For extra protection you could mix the Shea Butter with beeswax or a plant-based wax. This makes the balm a little firmer for more protection.
Shea Butter helps care for dry, chapped lips. Because Shea Butter has a slightly occlusive effect, your lips are protected all day long against influences that dry them out. And if you lick your lips, you don't have to worry about swallowing anything bad. Shea Butter is edible, after all. It's no coincidence that you'll find Shea Butter as an ingredient in our lip balm kits. It cares for your lips, protects them and makes them soft again. Everything you want in a lip balm, right?
Shea butter is often used as a base ingredient in commercial stretch mark creams you can find at the chemist. And not without reason. Applying Shea Butter to your skin every day keeps it supple, including in places where stretch marks can appear.
Stretch marks often occur with extreme weight fluctuations or, for example, during pregnancy. The skin's elasticity is really put to the test, and this sometimes leaves its traces in the form of stretch marks. Shea Butter helps keep the skin supple and elastic. The result is supple, smooth skin that moves with the changes.
Want to know more about caring for your body after giving birth? Then read this lovely blog article by Linda about Postpartum.
Did you know that Shea Butter is also one of the main ingredients of this magical body butter? Watch the video now!
Shea Butter keeps your skin nice and supple in summer. Please note: it is absolutely not a replacement for sunscreen. Ideal for the summer months!
How to use: Apply Shea Butter before you go out in the sun and apply your favourite (natural) sunscreen on top.
Shea Butter cares for the skin after a day in the sun. The Vitamins A & E hydrate the skin and make it supple and glowing again. You'll enjoy your tan for longer.
The softening effect of Shea butter helps make your cuticles soft and supple again. It also cares for your nails and the skin around them. Beautiful hands guaranteed!
How to use: Apply a little Shea Butter to your cuticles and hands and let it absorb for 20 min. Then spread it over your arms.
You use your hands intensively every day for all kinds of tasks. This brings them into contact with lots of different surfaces and substances that can affect the skin.
The skin has a natural layer of oil that protects it against external influences. If you wash your hands often, your skin loses that oily layer. This makes your hands more vulnerable to other substances, causing them to dry out or become chapped. On top of that, factors such as temperature changes, air pollution and UV radiation cause their fair share of little cracks.
Shea Butter makes rough, dry hands soft and smooth again and helps care for cracks and chapped patches. The unsaponifiable components and special fatty acids in Shea Butter help care for chapped hands and protect them against external influences.
Shea Butter helps care for and soften scars. It makes the skin supple and smooth again.
Shea Butter is fantastic for your hair. Especially for dry, frizzy or curly hair. Curly hair needs just one thing: hydration! Or rather, it needs protection against drying out.
Most regular curl creams are based on silicones. An effective ingredient, but unfortunately not natural. Shea Butter helps lock moisture into the hair and makes your hair shine again. It also deeply nourishes your hair and cares for dry, split ends.
How to use: Apply a very small amount of Shea Butter to the ends of your hair and twist your hair before you go to sleep. In the morning you'll have beautifully defined curls.
Fancy a bright red look for festival season? Or do you touch up your roots every 6 weeks? Apply a little Shea Butter just below your hairline before you start dyeing. The Shea Butter forms a thin protective layer on the skin so you won't get dye stains on your skin. Hey, not everyone needs to know you give nature a helping hand, right?
Shaving sometimes causes irritation, ingrown hairs, red bumps and rashes. Annoying, especially when the hair grows back within two days and the whole hassle starts all over again. Regular shaving creams and aftershaves often contain drying ingredients such as alcohol and perfume. The skin is extra vulnerable after shaving and needs a little more care.
Shea Butter is ideal as a shaving cream or aftershave balm. It cares for the skin while you shave and hydrates and soothes it afterwards. Shaving will also go a lot more easily and quickly. Nice, right?
How to use: Spread a little Shea Butter over the area you want to shave and shave as usual. You can also make a lovely Fluffy Shea Butter shaving cream by adding Jojoba Oil to the Shea Butter and whipping them together into a shaving cream.
OK, it's not the most obvious option, but if you're ever staying somewhere without make-up remover, Shea Butter removes waterproof mascara with ease.
Insect bites can be really annoying and quite itchy. And nobody wants a jellyfish sting either. Do you happen to have Shea Butter to hand? The Vitamin A in Shea Butter helps care for and soothe the surrounding skin.
How to use: Apply a little Shea Butter to the affected patch of skin.
Shea Butter contains stearic acid and palmitic acid, which deeply care for the skin. It also helps care for chapped patches and calluses. Rough skin will feel soft and supple again. The ideal foot cream, then!
How to use: Spread a small amount over your feet and put your shoes on. Or apply a thick layer to your feet, pull on some socks and let it absorb overnight.
That's them! The 19 benefits of Shea Butter that I wanted to share with you. Around me I've already seen so many baby bottoms, chapped hands and rough skin improve thanks to Shea Butter. I've also met lots of people who didn't know Shea Butter at all. The reactions after using Shea Butter are incredibly heart-warming. Your reviews speak for themselves, it really is a special butter.
I hope that after reading this article you've learned more about Shea Butter, and that you'll pass it on to people who need it. Natural living can be so simple and easy.
Love,
Malou
