How to Use African Shea Butter
How to Use African Shea Butter
There are many answers on how to use African shea butter since it is a multi-purpose skincare lotion. Apply African shea butter to your scalp for deep conditioning; moisturize your skin, especially elbows, knees and the heels of your feet with African shea butter.
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How to Use African Shea Butter |
Eight African countries produce high quantities of Shea nuts; they are in order Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo and Guinea.
The nuts of shea tree can be collected and processed by crushing and grinding by hand or a machine to yield shea butter. Shea has long been recognized for its emollient and healing properties, ideal for soothing skin in the dry climate of the region. Reports of its use go back as far as the 14th century.
How to use African Shea butter?
Most raw and unrefined Shea butter comes from producers in Africa who export the product for further refining. Raw shea butter is butter is shea butter which has not been filtered or molded into shapes and unrefined shea butter is filtered and sometimes molded.