The extraction of shea butter is derived from “shea”. "Shea Butter" is a plant with amazing maintenance. Most of them grow in the tropical rainforest between Senegal and Nigeria in Africa. They are hardwoods. Adult trees are as high as 15 to 20 meters and are often aged for hundreds of years. Shea butter blooms between December and March of the following year. Its fruit "dairy fruit" (or shea butter) has delicious flesh like avocado fruit, and the oil in the kernel is shea butter, which accounts for about half of the core volume. Each mature fruit tree can only produce 15 to 20 kilograms of shea fruit a year. For climate and plantation reasons, shea trees can only survive on the African continent. Therefore, shea butter is extremely precious.

Basic Information

Chinese name: Shea butter

Pure natural green plant source solid oil, can promote epidermal cell regeneration, give skin nutrition. Shea butter (also known as shea butter), there are three colors of ivory, beige and yellow. The darker the color, the better. .

Shea is widely distributed in places such as Guinea and Africa, where the fruit is edible and the nuts are used to produce shea butter. Shea butter is the closest indicator to the sebum secretion of human body. It is rich in non-saponifying ingredients and is easily absorbed by the body. It not only prevents dry cracking, but also further restores and maintains the skin's natural elasticity. It has an incredible depth. Moisturizing effect. At the same time, it also plays an anti-inflammatory role. According to local legends, Shea Butter is guarded by an invisible, magical force that can avoid evil and exorcism, with a life cycle of 300 years. Therefore, it is forbidden to arbitrarily pick the fruit of the shea. People can only harvest the stone fruit that has fallen on the ground. After the dried fruit is dried, the precious shea butter is extracted by cold pressing. In the local area, only women can be close to the shea. Therefore, the production of shea butter has become a unique cause for African women, and this raw material is a skin care treasure for women. Therefore, shea butter is called "Women's gold" in the local area. The history of the use of shea butter on the African continent dates back to the ancient Egyptian Cleopatra era, and it has been widely used due to its outstanding characteristics.

application

Applicable to the formulation of various cosmetics, according to market promotion and research, the market of shea butter in the domestic market is still in the stage of development and cultivation, with an annual demand of more than 1,000 tons per year. However, based on the unique characteristics of shea butter itself and the international recognition and recognition of shea butter products, it is absolutely certain that the potential and stamina of the shea butter market cannot be underestimated.

Skin care products: 3-15%, suitable for anti-aging products, night cream, sensitive skin and dry skin care products, winter products, hand cream, foot cream, body lotion baby products, shaving Products such as synovial fluid;

Sunscreen products: 3-25%, suitable for sunscreen products and after-sun repair products;

Make-up products: 2-10%, suitable for lipstick and foundation honey;

Hair products: 1-3%, suitable for dry hair, shampoo and conditioner, post-dyeing care products;

Mu bath: the dosage is 1-2%;

Fat soap: dosage 10-50%.

Applications

Although shea butter is still in the domestic development stage, its application in the international market is very mature. From planting, sales, rough processing and fine processing, a huge industrial chain has been formed. Demand determines supply, more than 90% of shea butter is supplied to the world's major cosmetics companies, such as internationally renowned cosmetics companies L'Oreal Paris, doublebaby, DHC, The body shop, Swiss legend and so on. Shea butter has a very good moisturizing effect and is generally formulated by companies to be suitable for dry and combination skin. Long-term use of shea butter or skin care products containing shea butter not only prevents dry cracking, but also further restores and maintains the skin's natural elasticity, with a good deep moisturizing effect.

It is said that before the use of shea butter in skin care products, scientists have done some experiments to prove that its efficacy is not empty. In 1990, Jan dekker used Shea Butter as an anti-aging clinical trial. A total of 30 volunteers between the ages of 29 and 82 participated in the experiment. Volunteers massaged with balsam made from shea butter once a day. After 4 to 8 months, all volunteers' skin improved to a large extent:

a. Skin appearance: After a few weeks of use, the grayish yellow rough skin becomes smooth and clean.

b. The skin texture becomes very fine, and obvious skin renewal phenomenon can be observed: it may be that the unsaponifiable in the shea butter can resist ultraviolet UV-B and promote the synthesis of collagen.

c. Wrinkles are significantly reduced due to aging of the sun.

Shea butter is an effective anti-aging active. Nursing and Regeneration Another clinical trial investigated the effects of shea butter on dry skin, delicate skin and aged skin. A total of 49 volunteers participated in the experiment, using pure shea butter twice a day or 15%. The main product of shea butter is applied to the skin, and the above two main products have similar results:

A.70% of the volunteers found that the product has dermatitis, sunburn and scars on the skin.

b. 75% of the volunteers had significantly reduced wrinkles and the skin became richer.

Moisturizing properties were applied to the side of 10 volunteer forearms with a cream containing 5% shea butter and a cream of the same matrix but no shea butter to test the skin conductivity of the coated and uncoated skin. The difference. It was found that shea butter has a short-term moisturizing function, and the moisturizing effect is maintained for 8 hours. Then, for all volunteers who use it once a day, shea butter has a good long-term moisturizing effect on the surface of the skin.