About Shea Butter

Shea butter is a solid oil made from the nuts of Karite trees. Our Shea butter is grown is South East Ghana.
A women’s collective extracts the butter from the nuts giving employment and income to hundreds of thousands of rural African village women. Shea butter is so non-toxic and beneficial that it is used in foods and cooking as well as our soaps, lotions, lip balm, bath bombs and body butter. Shea butter has soothing, moisturizing and protecting effects. It displays a protecting role against UV rays because of its content in cinnamic acid and is able prevent certain sun allergies.

Shea butter also helps cell regeneration and capillary circulation. This helps the healing of small wounds and skin cracks. It is an asset against skin aging because of the restructuring effects on the epidermis, also on dry and brittle hair. Dry skin, dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, sun burn, and burns are all helped by natural shea butter. It has an anti-elastase characteristic which makes it a good active ingredient against stretch marks. Shea butter can also be used to treat rheumatism and aching muscles. It is very well tolerated by the skin and does not normally trigger any allergic reaction and can even be used on very sensitive skin.

We use natural Shea butter in many of our products