Description

Refined shea butter
– White and without fragrance
– Traditional hand-crafted in Ghana
– Refined without chemicals
– Highest quality on the market

Refined shea butter comes from seeds of wild shea trees scattered throughout the fields and forests of the wooded savanna. We get our shea butter straight from Ghana. For thousands of years, women have extracted shea butter from the nuts of shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa) that grow across Africa’s Savannah. The trees don’t grow on plantations, the nuts are wild picked. This traditional production method results in soothing, moisturizing pomades and soaps that treat and restore skin unlike any other product.

The moisturising and healing properties of shea butter have recently been discovered by the western cosmetic industry, but shea butter has been a mainstay of African pharmacology for centuries.

This shea butter is a wonderful butter, ideal for formulating your own cream. It is produced the way it is done for thousands of years. Each nut is singly selected, the production is done with care and we sell it with proud because it provides important income for the people in Northern Ghana.

Shea butter has many useful properties and has been traditionally used as an anti-inflammatory for sprains and arthritis, a healing salve and a lotion for hair. However, the protective and emollient properties of shea butter are most valued for skin care. It can be very useful in controlling eczema.

INCI: Butyrospermum parkii seed butter

Certification: Certified organic

Appearance: Soft, creamy, off-white butter, Solid at room temperature, will melt on contact with skin.

Processing type: Refined

Purity: 100%

Origin: Ghana

Solubility: Oil

Melting point: 30 – 37°C

Usage rate: Up to 100% – Depending on desired consistency of final product.

Typical fatty acid profile:
Stearic: 39 – 47%
Oleic: 42 – 51%
Linoleic: 4 – 9%
Palmitic: 3 – 7%

Absorption rate: Slow

Comedogenic rating: 1

Skin type recommended: Most skin types, particularly dry skin

Vegan: Yes

Palm oil: No

Moisturising & Healing Benefits of Refined Shea Butter:

Refined shea butter contains an abundance of healing ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, proteins and a unique fatty acid profile, and is a superior active moisturiser. Unlike petroleum based moisturisers, shea butter actually restores the skin’s natural elasticity. Shea butter enables your skin to absorb moisture from the air, and as a result, it becomes softer and stays moisturised for longer.

In addition, shea butter has natural sunscreen properties and anti-inflammatory agents. Because of its amazing properties, shea butter is an excellent ingredient for soaps, lotions and creams. Perhaps it is most effective when applied to the skin in its pure state.

Regular users of pure, Refined shea butter notice softer, smoother, healthier skin. Shea butter has also been shown to help with skin conditions and ailments such as extreme dryness, psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, skin allergies, fungal infections, blemishes, wrinkles, stretch marks, scars, scrapes, and more.

An exceptional butter of the highest quality:

This shea butter is of a high quality. The butter contains fatty acids such as oleic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, behenic acid and palmitic acid. The unique fatty acid profile of this shea butter coupled with the butter’s high level of non-saponifiables makes a highly effective emollient, especially for very dry skin. Shea butter is also known to enhance skin elasticity. It is rich in vitamin F, a vitamin for repairing skin. It is therefore shea butter is more and more used in the cosmetics industry.
With the melting point ranging from 31˚C – 45˚C, this shea butter is solid at room temperature.
Because the material is refined this shea butter has no fragrance and is white.

The product image and packaging shown above is a general representation of the product. Product colour may vary from batch to batch and the packing available may be different.
Our products are for external use only unless otherwise indicated. This information is for information purposes and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

DISCLAIMER:
– DAKITZ NATURAL PRODUCTS are for cosmetic, personal care formulations and are meant for external use only unless otherwise STATED.

– We recommend working with a chemist or a formulator if you’re not advanced in formulating.

– This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

– Kindly note that you are responsible for researching, testing, and understanding ingredients before buying.