Shea Butter Refined

Shea Butter Refined is extracted from the nuts of the Karite tree in Africa. In many parts of the world it is known as Karite Butter. Used for centuries, in all manner of body treatments, Shea Butter delivers a wealth of skin nurturing benefits making it suitable for all bath and body products where it will help to keep skin soft, and moisturized. This refined version is a low odor alternative to the virgin, unrefined butter, making it suitable for all applications.

Shea Butter Refined is one of nature's best emollients and is well known for it's smoothing, and softening, effect on skin and hair. High in vitamins A and E, it adds skin healing benefits to bath and body products, salve, balms and conditioners. Shea Butter Refined is also loaded with fatty acids, making it a great choice for dry, damaged, skin.

Shea Butter Refined, and Shea Butter Unrefined, are both a little tricky to use in formulation. It's important to make sure that you take the oil phase to 170F to prevent the Shea Butter from precipitating and making your product gritty. Even when used in anhydrous formulations it's important to make sure it gets hot enough, and is cooled quickly, to prevent grittiness in the final product.

SPECIFICATIONS
For typical fatty acid profile click "Impotant Info or Formula"

GUIDELINES

• creams and lotions: 2 to 7%
• salves and balms: 10 to 100%
• w/o body butters and creams: 5 to 25%
• conditioners: 1 to 3%

APPLICATIONS

• Dry Skin Treatments
• Skin Care Creams, Lotions, Scrubs, Salves, Balms
• Bath and Body Creams, Lotions, Scrubs
• sun protection products
• Lip Products
• Hair / Scalp Conditioners

TIPS

• Shea Butter is a great choice for whipped butter products. To create a whipped version that will absorb into the skin more quickly: heat it until its soft and mix it with a standard mixer for about 5 minutes, then refrigerate it for about 15 minutes, and mix it again. Repeat the whole process, without the heating, and you're done ... Whipped Shea Butter
• To turn your oil blend into a gel (salve) add about 15 to 25% Shea Butter Unrefined, or Refined, and mix it while it cools. This creates a lovely salve that absorbs more quickly, depending on your other oils.

NOTICE

All butters should be handled, and stored, with the same preventative care that you would use for your oils or any other precious material as they are just as fragile.

As we know that excessive and repeated exposure to heat is damaging to the quality of Shea Butter we do not heat it to fill jars. All Ingredients To Die For butters are scraped, shaved or scooped, as needed to package them into jars to avoid any heat. Because of this practice butters will always be packed into a container that is, roughly twice the size, of the melted butter. This means that if you order 16oz (1lb) of shea butter it will be packed into a 32oz (2lb) container as it requires twice the space. We would rather spend a little more for the package, in this case, than jeopardize the integrity, and quality, of the butter. If you receive your butter in a warmed condition, due to transit, the container will appear to be less than full. This is normal, and expected, as they are packaged by weight, not by volume.