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Description
What is Shea Butter (Organic and Unrefined)?
Shea Butter is also called Shea oil or Karite butter. It is a wonderful hydrating butter for skin and hair. The Latin name is Butyrospermum Parkii.
Shea Butter is made from the nuts of the Shea tree / Karite tree. This tree is also known as the Tree of Life, due to its many special properties.
Shea trees come from the African Savanna, and most Shea is still made here in the region. It has also been used in Africa for many years for everything! For skincare, haircare, and household use. In the Netherlands, this Shea Butter is fortunately becoming increasingly well-known.
Shea Butter consists of, among other things, saturated and unsaturated fatty acids with a high percentage of unsaponified triglycerides, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and palmitic acid, provitamin A, vitamin E, Vitamin F and Allantoin.
At room temperature, the butter is quite firm, but in your hands it melts into a wonderful butter and on the skin it provides intense hydration.
How is Shea Butter Made?
Shea Butter is made from the nuts of the Shea tree. It is a long process to produce Shea Butter. First of all, you need a lot of patience. The tree only produces its first fruits after 20 years and only after 45 years do you harvest a large amount of fruit. However, the tree can grow for over 200 years.
To make Shea Butter, the shell of the nut from the fruit is first cracked. The nuts are then washed and dried. Once this is done, the nuts are cracked and roasted. After that, the nuts are ground so finely that a dark-colored paste is created.
This paste is kneaded (by hand) for hours and purified with clean water. After this, the butter is lightly heated until the fresh Shea Butter floats to the top. This layer is removed and dried until the Shea Butter is as you find it in the jar.
Benefits of Shea Butter
Where do we even start? Shea butter has so many benefits!
Especially for dry, sensitive, irritated, flaky, red, rough and mature skin, but hair also benefits greatly from Shea butter. Shea Butter is wonderful for stretch marks and striae, wrinkles and cracks.
Shea Butter helps the skin retain moisture well and naturally contains antioxidants such as vitamin E.
Protects the skin (barrier)
Shea Butter contains many fatty acids such as stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and palmitic acid. These fatty acids occur naturally in our skin. When you apply Shea Butter to the skin, it creates a protective layer so that moisture cannot easily escape from the skin.
Hydrates the skin
Shea Butter hydrates the skin intensely! The essential fatty acids and vitamins A, E and F in Shea Butter provide soft and hydrated skin.
Cares for mature skin
Shea Butter keeps the skin supple and nourishes the skin. Furthermore, Shea Butter contains, among other things, provitamin A and vitamin E.
Healing and soothing
Shea Butter has a healing effect on dry, red skin. Among other things, Vitamin F provides a restorative effect for the skin and this butter is therefore good to use on the skin after sun exposure.
Cruelty free
Vegan
Organic
Free from (synthetic) fragrance
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Usage
Usage instructions
For the preparation of cosmetics and care products.
Warnings
May be comedogenic for people with oily facial skin. May cause an allergic reaction in case of latex or tree nut allergy.
Shelf life (from production date)
18 months
Ingredients
Ingredients
Shea Butter
INCI
Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
100% natural
Vegetarian
Vegan
Cruelty free
Food grade
Organic
Unrefined
Fair trade
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Alcohol free
Free from (synthetic) fragrance
Free from preservatives
Free from mineral oils (petroleum derivatives)
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Free from phthalates, parabens, mineral oils, nanoparticles, SLS, triclosan, talc, silicones, aluminium, Bisphenols (BPA), PEG's, DEA, TEA, MEA
Shelf life (from production date)
18 maanden
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Manufacturer
Natural Heroes B.V., Rijnzathe 6, 3454 PV Utrecht, Nederland, support@naturalheroes.nl


































