Glow with Shea butter

Shea butter is a complete skin oil. It moisturizes, smoothens and absorbs into the skin without clogging the pores.

For skin to glow

• Use shea butter rich cream as part of your daily beauty routine or get good quality raw shea butter. Do you hate the smell? Why not add a few drops of an essential oil as fragrance? You can mix with your preferred body cream too. This way, your skin glows and is supple.

•  Before bed time, wash your face and then oil cleanse. Oil cleansing is the art of applying oils such as shea oil, baobab oil, castor oil, olive or coconut oils to cleanse your face. The skin repairs itself overnight. Then, the oil you apply goes into the skin and repairs it. Wash your face, pat it dry, apply some shea butter on a cotton wool and cleanse your neck and face in a circular manner, then go to bed. In the morning wash your face, apply sunscreen and make-up! You will notice a considerable improvement in your skin.

• To reduce fine lines, laugh lines, wrinkles, or fade out sunburns, marks, or to treat pimples, practise the oil cleansing treatment by applying a little amount of honey to the face before washing. If shea oil isn’t available, use raw shea butter to ‘oil cleanse.’

Shea butter does not have the ability to lighten or darken your skin. However, if you do not use sunscreen of at least SPF 30, your skin darkens whenever you are in the sun. You can get a skincare professional to help with severe skin discoloration.
How to get shea oil
This is obtained by fractionating (separating fats from shea butter) leaving liquid oil.

Shea butter for hair growth
It has been clinically proven that shea butter aids hair growth. It helps the growth of thinning hair or receding hairline as well as providing some anti dandruff properties.
Shea butter and other skin issues
• Swellings and injuries on the skin could pose a worry. Apply shea butter to the affected areas daily. It provides anti-inflammatory properties. It is also useful for massages.
• To fade scars, burns, spots, eczema, rashes, dry skin, stretch marks, wrinkles, psoriasis, shea butter comes in handy. Some research shows that it also has some insect-repelling abilities

I use shea butter on my Hair Growth journey too. And It works!!