It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Shea Butter
To extract shea butter from the nuts of the Shea-Karite tree in the tropics of Africa, one must be patient and careful, but the rich healing cream that results is well worth the wait. The tree only begins to bear fruit after 15 years, at which point the nuts are grilled, pounded, and boiled for hours until the fatty acids of the nut rise to the surface, and our scooped into gourds and left to cool. At room temperature, shea butter is a solid mass, but it liquefies upon contact with the body.
Benefits: Raw shea butter needs no processing to work its healing properties on the skin and hair. Shea butter is a spectacularly effective moisturizer that the skin absorbs quickly with no greasy residue. Further, shea butter also has these positive effects:
Restores elasticity to the skin
Alleviates sunburns
Reduces scarring,
Helps to cure eczema
Soothes the skin after shaving
May reduce acne in some
Softens wrinkles
Repairs cracks in the skin
Strengthens, softens, and restores luster to hair
Psoriasis cure
How it Works
Shea butter is naturally high in VItamins A, E, and F. Vitamin A and Vitamin E are nourishing, helping to maintain skin health and keep it clear. Vitamin F protects and rejuvenates the skin, softening dry or damaged hair. Shea butter is also high in a kind of fat called "unsaponifiables," naturally yeilding between 7-12 percent. Other well-known skin soothers, like avocado oil, only measure about 2-6 percent. It is the unsaponified property of the oil in unrefined west African shea butter that allows it to penetrate the skin and effectively deal with skin problems listed above as effectively but more safely than prescription steriods. www.onlyhealthy.com...
Originally posted by Illegal Alien
Hi.
When I get any kind of infection or similar, I apply a diluted essential oil such as Sandalwood (Santalum Album, .Mixed with Frankincense and Myrrh smells nice too, Tea tree, Thyme among others. I tend to use a stronger ratio than most recommended, but find these oils very effective at combating unfriendly bacteria.
Hope this is of some help, and good luckedit on 25-9-2011 by Illegal Alien because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by wavemaker
Try to take a bath in a hot spring. Whatever bacteria or fungi that you have will be killed in the hot spring.
Originally posted by Farnhold
reply to post by Destinyone
Thanks for advice Destinyone. May I ask, could Raw Shea Butter be available in Slovakia? Can it get rid of inflammation within days? Do you mix it with something, or just put it raw on your skin? Could I perhaps order it from the internet if it was not available in my country?
Originally posted by davesmart
hi op
if its blocked pores this worked for me
boiled kettle of water
put it in a bucket
put some salts in (plenty to choose from)
towel over your head
and stick your face in the bucket (not into the hot water of course hahah)
opens the pores
may not work for you
but when all else fails...
Originally posted by Destinyone
Originally posted by Farnhold
reply to post by Destinyone
Thanks for advice Destinyone. May I ask, could Raw Shea Butter be available in Slovakia? Can it get rid of inflammation within days? Do you mix it with something, or just put it raw on your skin? Could I perhaps order it from the internet if it was not available in my country?
PM your mailing address to me...I'll send you a small jar, no charge. I order in 20lb bulk shipments from a free trade woman's African co-op.
ETA: if there are any EO's (essential oils) you would like me to add to the shea butter, let me know in the PM. I have all the ones listed in previous replies to your thread. I've seen it heal very bad skin reactions to things like poison ivy and poison oak within 2 days.
Desedit on 25-9-2011 by Destinyone because: (no reason given)edit on 25-9-2011 by Destinyone because: (no reason given)