Everything You Need to Know About Body Butter

What Exactly is Shea Butter?

Shea butter is a type of fat derived from the nuts of a shea tree. With a high concentration of vitamins and good fatty acids, it helps to deeply nourish your skin. It’s a definite staple on the bathroom shelf for anyone wanting to keep their skin hydrated and glowing.

Our Natural Body Butter is made with organic shea butter along with few other natural ingredients that are great for your skin’s health. In fact, organic shea butter makes up over 70% of its volume!  It’s gentle enough to be used on your face as well as your entire body! Shea body butter will immediately make your skin feel deeply nourished and moisturised.

What Is the Purpose of Body Butter?

The purpose of body butter is to nourish and rejuvenate your skin, it’s especially great for people with dry skin or dry patches but works amazingly for all skin types. Even though shea butter is immensely rich, it won’t cause your skin to be oily after applying it. In both the summertime and wintertime, body butter is essential to keep your skin feeling moisturised and at its best.

The Benefits of Shea Butter

Shea butter has many benefits and is actually commonly known as a skin superfood. It’s one of the best moisturisers out there as it’s able to penetrate into your skin’s deeper layers and prevents it from drying out rather than sitting on the top layer of your skin feeling greasy.

Shea butter can also help to reduce wrinkles and boost the production of collagen as it contains a high level of antioxidants, Vitamin A and E, which help to deeply nourish your skin. They also work towards protecting your skin from damage caused by the sun as well as other sorts of exposure.

As it contains both phytosterols and cinnamic acid, shea butter is also a great anti-inflammatory. It can help to reduce redness, heal wounds and ease irritation.

How To Use Body Butter

Body butter works best when applied after your daily shower. After drying yourself with a towel, apply a generous amount of body butter directly onto your skin and massage it in gently. You may find that when drying yourself, leaving a little moisture can be helpful during application!

It’s good to remember to try not to use too much, it’s a lot easier to get more than try putting it back in its container! Apply another layer if your skin is still feeling like it needs some more nourishment throughout the day.

The key places to pay extra attention to are your knees, elbows, hands, and feet. These areas are the most vulnerable to being too dry, so they’ll greatly appreciate the body butter nourishing them.

You can also apply body butter before going to bed to help moisturise overnight. For dry skin, using body butter daily will give you the best results. Whereas for normal to oily skin, you may find that using it every 2 to 3 days or as a weekly treatment works wonders for you.

The Lesser-Known Uses for Shea Butter!

Body butter helps to promote cell regeneration as the moisturising and antioxidant properties promote the generation of healthy new cells. By having the right balance of moisture on your skin’s surface, there’ll be fewer dead skin cells getting in the way of new cell generation.

Shea butter can also work wonders for your hair and scalp. In fact, if you suffer from dandruff, shea body butter could help when used along with other moisturisers. As it can work towards restoring moisture to a dry and irritated scalp, it showed to help decrease the risk of flare-ups and flakes of dandruff. However, more research is needed to establish how well shea butter works on its own when used to treat dandruff.

If you’ve been bitten by an insect, or even stung by a bee, shea butter has been used traditionally to help soothe these bites or stings.

Overall shea butter has many uses beyond its primary ability of nourishing skin which makes it great to have on hand. Give your skin the gift of feeling well moisturised throughout the year with a great natural body butter. If you’re interested in seeing our natural range, make sure to click here to find amazing products for you or a loved one! If you’d like to learn a bit more about us, or would like to speak to one of our friendly team members, you can get in touch with us here.

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