Shea butter

What is shea butter

Shea butter or Shea nut butter is a natural fat extracting from shea tree fruit. Shea butter is pale yellow or ivory colored and extracted from shea tree fruit by crushing and boiling. Shea tree is also named as karite tree and its botanical name is Butyrospermum paradoxum. It is also named as vitellaria paradoxa, recently.^[1] Shea tree is native to Africa. Fruit is mainly useful part of shea tree plant that consists of a thin nutritious pulp that surrounds a large oil rich seed from which extraction of shea butter occur.^[2]

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Curative Properties

Shea butter is helpful in cosmetics and hair care products.

• Shea butter bestows natural UV sun protection. Use of shea butter lessens harms of sun exposure.^[1]
• Shea butter is used in various cosmetics product because of its moisturizing and emollient effects. Shea butter keeps skin smooth, soft and supple.^{[1, 3, 4, 5]}
• Shea butter is also valuable because of its wonderful effects during fading scars, burns, rashes, acne, blemishes, dark spots and skin discolorations.^[1]
• Use of shea butter is also good for chapped lips and acts as emollient for dry skin.^[1]

Shea butter is also found in hair conditioners because it has capability to add and maintain moisture in dry brittle hair, in addition to this shea butter also help in retaining softness and restrains hair breakage. ^[1]

It is also known for decreasing soreness. ^[1]

Use of shea butter has been effective in sinus problems and also shows beneficial effects in nasal conditions. ^[1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea_butter
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyrospermum_parkii
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_skin_care
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetable_oils
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cosmetic_ingredients

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