We’ve covered vitamins, minerals, botanical oils, and Now you can learn what they’re all about, and how they each help our skin in their own, but similar ways!

Cocoa butter

Cocoa butter starts off as a fatty substance that is extracted from the cacao seed. It is an excellent skin softener and protector.  Cocoa butter is full of the Vitamins A, E and C which are fantastic at helping with your skin cells and keeping them looking younger.  This oil acts as a protective layer to hold the moisture to the skin. It melts on skin contact and has a natural chocolate scent. Cocoa Butter is a natural choice for skin on the mend such as stretch marks and new scar tissue. Coco butter can be found in many skincare and sun care products. If you would like to try it, you can search out where to buy it in it’s raw state and let it melt on your skin. You will be amazed how soft your skin will be!

Shea butter

Obtained by cold pressing of the fruit (seeds) of the African Karite Tree, this butter is smooth, creamy and extremely moisturizing and gentle to the skin. Shea Butter is high in natural phytosterols making it beneficial as an anti-inflammatory. Shea Butter also offers protection to the skin against weather, sun and aging. Shea butter is well known to assist dryness, dermatitis, eczema and burns. Shea is a very popular butter used in skin and hair care products. You can use it on it’s own or look for it as one of the main ingredients in hair and skin products. If you can, try to avoid the refined variety, as the processing diminishes the vitamin content of the butter. Although some people do not like the natural nutty smell of the unrefined variety, your skin will benefit a great deal more.

Mango Butter

Mango Butter is obtained from the kernels of the mango tree. It has a high content of stearic acid which makes it similar to Cocoa Butter. Mango Butter has good emolliency and lends protection against the sun, although not to be used exclusively as a sun protector.  It is said to prevent drying of the skin and formation of wrinkles. Mango Butter also reduces degeneration of skin cells and restores elasticity. Mango butter feels light and is very good at penetrating the skin.

Kokum Butter

This butter is not very well known unfortunately, but is gaining more and more popularity in the skin care scene. Kokum butter is obtained from the Indian tree Garcinia indica. It is used in skin care products because of its ability to soften skin and heal ulcerations and fissures of lips, hands and soles of feet. Kokum Butter helps reduce degeneration of the skin cells and restores elasticity. When found in its natural state, it is quite hard and “crumbly” and is best used in moisturizers and creams.

Choosing skin care now–a-days seems like a science in itself But Nature has provided us with powerful healers for your skin So Choose what’s best for you!!!!