Benefits of shea butter on skin

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Shea butter is a fat that is extracted from shea tree nuts. It’s off-white or ivory-colored and has a creamy consistency that’s easy to spread on your skin. Most shea butter comes from shea trees in West Africa.

Be it Forrest Essentials or The Body Shop, every luxury brand has Shea butter in its formulation. Budding brands in India, especially in the handmade skincare segment, help people who find it difficult to buy these big branded products. As most of the artisan skincare products makers want to give their customer that same enriched luxury.

Anti-inflammatory and healing properties

Shea butter has been proven to have an ample amount of anti-inflammatory properties. Redness and swelling on your skin may be calmed by applying shea butter products.

Emollient properties

The rich oils in shea butter can soak into your skin, creating a smooth and soft barrier that seals in moisture. This moisturizing effect can last for several hours.

Anti-ageing properties

Shea butter has also been reported to have anti-ageing properties as it helps to promote collagen production or decreasing the breakdown of collagen that’s already present

There are humongous benefits of Shea Butter when applied on the skin. Let’s check it out, as you need to #KnowWhatYouPutOnYourSkin

1. Normal <-> Dry <-> Sensitive = OK

Shea butter is a tree nut product. But unlike most tree nut products, it’s very low in the proteins that triggers nut allergies.

Shea butter contains high levels of linoleic acid and oleic acid. These two acids balance each other out. That means shea butter is easy to absorb in your skin and won’t make your skin look oily & greasy after application. So it works best for all the skin types.

2. great Moisturizer

As we read about earlier, the emollient property of Shea butter comes into the picture. These moisturizing benefits are tied to shea butter’s fatty acid contents, which are linoleic, oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids.

After you apply shea butter on the skin, the components of the shea butter starts repairing lipids of the skin cells by sealing the moisture and blocking it to get away in the outside environment.

3+4. Anti(inflammatory + oxidant)

Shea butter is known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidizing properties.

Shea butter has substances such as vitamin C or E that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents in a skin cell.

Antioxidants are important for your body. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that produces free radicals, thereby leading to chain reactions that may damage the body & skin cells. Shea butter helps reduce this process preventing your skin from ageing and dull-looking skin.

When applied to the skin, shea butter slows down the production of the cells that trigger inflammation.

Shea Butter also has high concentration of vitamin K that helps the body and skin cells to heal faster after being damaged; this is because of anti-inflammatory properties of shea butter.

5. Prevents Acne

Shea butter is rich in different kinds of fatty acids that balance out oils in your skin by clearing excess oil on your skin.

The emollient properties of shea butter restore moisture to your skin and lock it in to your skin.

Not producing excess oil can help prevent the growth of acne.

6. Collagen Production Booster

Shea butter contains naturally occurring chemical compounds that are thought to deactivate collagen destruction.

7. Promotes cell regeneration

Shea’s moisturizing and antioxidant properties work together to help your skin generate healthy new cells.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 600 grams each year, so the average person will lose around 42 kgs of skin by age 70.

Development of new skin cells also happens simultaneously. Dead skin layer sits on the top the new regenerating skin cells.

By applying shea butter on the skin, your new skin cells regeneration will have few dead skin cells to deal with.

8. Soothes the skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis

Shea butter’s anti-inflammatory properties may help patients of eczema & psoriasis by soothing the skin and relieving itchiness.

A simple butter with lots of benefits, Shea Butter not only works on the skin but on the hair too.

At present you will not only find soap and creams with shea butter but also the new lifestyle changing trend of shampoo bars also most of them with shea butter being available in the market completely organic and natural ones.

There is no need to put a sunscreen lotion and block the pores of the skin. Shea butter last for almost 4-6 hours on the skin after applying thoroughly all over the body. #SurpriseBodyRegime