Butters for Your Skin
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Butters for Your Skin
Avocado, Babassu, Cocoa, Kokum, Mango, and Shea Butter
Hi!! How is everyone today? As the weather gets colder, our skin gets dryer and needs more moisture. Today I wanted to discuss the different types of butters that you can use in your recipes for your skin. This issue is an exerpt from my new book Radiance & Ritual: Skincare and Self-Care for the Winter Season launching on December 5 - National Bathtub Party Day! It is available for pre-order now. Also available now is a companion journal.
Butters
Butters are created from natural things such as beans, nuts and seeds. These natural butters are all very moisturizing. They may also have other properties such as anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. They may also contain vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids. After you take a bath or a shower when your pores are open from the heat, apply butter and it will absorb better.
Avocado Butter
Avocado butter contains the antioxidants vitamins A, E and D, a natural sunscreen that protects your skin and hair from the damaging effects of the ultraviolet radiation of the sun, and lecithin and unsaturated fatty acids. Avocado butter hydrates dry, mature skin, and hair and is helpful to nails and cuticles. Use it on the face, body, lips, and the hair. Avocado butter can reduce the appearance of age spots, also known as liver spots.
Babassu Butter
Babassu is a palm tree native to Brazil. Babassu Butter will melt in your hands and easily penetrate the skin. It contains lots of vitamin E which supports and helps create new collagen and elastin. It helps the skin's elasticity and lessen fine lines and wrinkles. It also contains fatty acids which help keep skin from sagging and helps skin retain moisture and look younger.
Cocoa Butter
Cocoa butter is an excellent facial moisturizer and prevents dryness and peeling. It heals chapped lips. It is an emollient. This means it protects lips by adding a protective moisturizing layer to them. Cocoa butter helps skin elasticity, skin tone, and collagen retention and production. It is gentle and good at soothing burns, rashes, infections, and things like eczema or dermatitis. It is also beneficial to use cocoa butter as a pre-shave lotion to prevent nicks from occuring and to have softer skin.
Kokum Butter
Kokum butter is high in essential fatty acids, poly unsaturated fats, has a high steric content, and vitamin E. It is anti-inflammatory and great for sensitive skin. It is non-comedogenic and absorbs into the skin quickly. It is not greasy and lightweight. It helps regenerate skin cells and prevents the degeneration of cells, and adds elasticity and flexibility to skin. It fights signs of aging and acne. It is great for dry, cracked, rough and calloused skin.
Mango Butter
Mango butter contains natural antioxidants, vitamins A and E, and essential fatty acids. Mango butter moisturizes dry skin, itchy skin, skin rashes and peeling. It moisturizes and smooths rough skin, small skin wounds and skin cracks. It works on fine lines and wrinkles, blemishes, and stretch marks. Use it in a shaving cream for a smooth shave. It treats sunburn, insect bites, poison ivy, poison oak, eczema and dermatitis.
Shea Butter
Shea butter has a high concentration of vitamin, antioxidants and fatty acids including linoleic, oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids. It is antifungal and angi-bacterial so it helps fight skin infections and the bacteria on the skin. It is anti- inflammatory which helps for things like wind blown skin and eczema. It is good for all skin types. Antioxidants help shea butter to protect your skin from free radicals which lead to premature aging. It may help acne, fine lines and wrinkles. It may help prevent hair breakage and dandruff. Shea butter may also help sunburn, eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, wounds, and insect bites.
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