By: Jemimah Chungu
Shea butter is a buttery, creamy skin care and hair care product that is produced from Shea trees. Shea trees fruit Ivory colored nuts whose seeds are used to produce the Shea butter. Shea seeds contain fats and vitamins A, E and F that have been tested and declared healthy for skin and hair use. Shea butter has natural ingredients unlike other beauty care products that have them as supplement ingredients or artificial. Partly, this explains why shea has been used directly or as a content for beauty products for centuries.
Why is shea butter trendy now?
Shea butter has gained more popularity on the beauty market in the recent past because it has proved to be effective for all skin and hair types. Its Africa originality and ivory color is also linked to the natural glow of different African skin tones including hair types.
Naturally, the texture of shea is fatty, buttery-creamy, thus it spreads and penetrates easily on the scalp, on hair strands and on the skin. It thereafter deep-cleanses, smoothens, and moisturizes and conditions so the skin and hair are revitalized to become plumps.
Shea butter also provides beauty care without side effects as opposed to chemical composed products that alter the natural skin as in the case of skin bleaching that has many side effects including skin cancer, environmental pollution and promotion of colorism.
The moisturizing effect of shea butter is also amazingly an anti-oily skin product. Shea’s fatty acids such as linoleic, oleic and palmitic acids help moisturize the skin and prevent dryness by retaining balanced nutrients (fats and vitamins) directly onto the skin.
The creamy-buttery effect also stays longer on the skin and hair hence prevailing moisture. However, oiliness is prevented because the product easily.
Shea butter when applied on the scalp and hair strands, moisturizes hair hence prevents hair breakage and treats dandruff promoting hair growth, strength, thickness and health in general.
Shea butter can also act as a sunscreen. It is effective in preventing the effects of long hours of exposure to the sun such as sun burns due to its components of SPF.
Ultimately, shea butter can prevent effects of ultra violet radiation on the skin and the side effects that have increased due to ozone layer depletion. Additionally, the fats and other nutrient contents also work as anti-inflammatory from other burns and skin conditions.
Shea butter has got the ability to treat skin imperfections such as acne, allergies, stretch marks, insect bites, wounds, sores, scars and wrinkles (it’s an anti-aging product) and others conditions due to the nutrient components of shea nuts, precisely triglycerides and catheters that nourish the skin.
Aside these are other health benefits of hair and skin promoted by shea butter, which have made this beauty product trendy on the fashion-beauty market.
