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Our Precious Skin
Most people appreciate having nice, soft, young looking skin. Our skin is our largest organ. It's our first line of immunity. The skin provides protection from the external environment and acts as a barrier as well as a filter.
If you are someone who puts lotion, creme, oil or lip balm on your skin repeatedly on a daily basis, you may want to look hard at what your putting on your skin. These products, high quality or rancid and toxic quality, will get into your skin on a cellular level. The idea is for these products to nourish from a cellular level!
Shea Butter
The first time I felt pure raw shea butter about a decade ago is when my love affair began! Now, I use it in most of the B Me Organic Products. Shea Butter is the fruit that comes from the Karite Tree, native to Africa and has also been called the Tree of Life.
You may purchase it raw and unrefined or refined shea butter. The raw unrefined shea butter contains more beneficial properties and has an earthy scent. Unrefined has more processing and doesn't have much scent. Shea butter varies in color from off white to yellow. As the shea butter is extracted, it is put into a gourd such as below.
Shea butter has an unbelievable amount of benefits. It is often compared to cocoa butter and in some opinions exceeds the healing quality. It contains Vit. A, E, and F and is very good for skin balance. It penetrates into the skin, moisturizes, gives back elasticity, softens and much more. Shea butter is good for:
-Dry skin -Skin rash -Sun burns -Wrinkles -Itchy skin -After shave bumps -Skin wounds -Skin cracks -Tough or rough skin -Weather changes such as dry lips, cold weather, frost bites -Stretch marks - Insect bites -Muscle fatigue, aches and tension -Before & after strenuous exercise
-Skin allergies such as poison ivy -Eczema - Dermatitis
-Skin damage from heat including radiation -Sun protection
Additionally, it has beneficial properties to the scalp and hair to condition your hair's natural shine, revitalize split ends, protect from the sun and hard treatments such as perms or hair dyes, deep conditions and strengthens brittle hair. Shea butter may also be used on babies for diaper rashes. As you can see, there are so many benefits to using shea butter!
Shea butter will melt at and on our bodies temperature. Get that? You will feel it literally melt on your skin. That's awesome!! Typically in its raw form, it will be semi-medium hard and will soften when it's applied. A product of nature!
These are a Few of My Favorite Things!
I make a variety of organic herbal products and use shea butter in many of them. You may use the shea butter in its raw form or add it with other oils and butters. I love the feel, texture and medicinal benefits it adds. How do I use the shea butter? I begin the products with herb infused oil that I set outside with shells, stones, sunshine and shake it for at least 2 weeks. The herbs infused depends upon the nature of the product. Herbs to soften and heal such as lavender, chamomile, lemon balm, neem are used in the Body and Belly Butter and Sweet Orange and Lavender Healing Creme, Herbal Salve and Lip Balms, and Body and Belly Oil and Argon Hair and Body Oil. Therapeutic herbs for aches, pains, inflammation, arthritis, sprains and more include herbs such as arnica, St. John's Wort, horsetail, rosemary, cayenne, catnip, neem in the Therapeutic Salve and Therapeutic Foot and Body Lotion. Herbs to repel bugs include lemon eucalyptus, lemongrass, catnip, rose geranium, and neem are in the Bug Off Mister products.
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| Shea Butter, cocoa 'wafers', beeswax squares |
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| Melted butters, oil, and wax with a fun stirrer! |
Then I add my love and intention to create this product in its highest good! I pour, package, label and hope these delicious products make you feel fabulous and happy!
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