Best Natural Skin Care Ingredients - Shea Butter
Benefits of Shea Butter for Younger Looking Skin

For softer, younger looking skin, shea butter makes a great addition to any antiaging, natural skin care recipe - or you can use it alone, smoothing it on as you would an expensive cream - but saving you lots of money!




The most popular antiaging skin care products, like Lifecell, can cost you hundreds of dollars each year. Making your own natural skin care products at home saves money, plus you know they contain no chemicals and preservatives, which are toxic to our bodies.

Benefits of Shea Butter

  • Shea butter can be used alone or mixed with other ingredients.
  • Leaves skin soft and smooth with no chemicals or preservatives.
  • Shea butter improves stretch marks, fine lines and wrinkles
  • Shea butter helps to heal scratches and blemishes.
  • Soothes irritated skin
  • Protects the skin from cold, wind and sun damage
  • Helps to improve and alleviate skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema.
  • Recommended and safe for the most sensitive skin.
  • Shea butter contains Vitamins A and E.




Shea Butter Moisturizer Cream Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup of unrefined, yellow shea butter
  • 1/8 cup of 100% aloe vera gel
  • 1 tbs of coconut oil and/or olive oil
  • 2 drops lavender essential oil - smells good and good for antiaging.

Melt shea butter over double boiler. Warm water slowly, don't boil.

Add melted shea butter to a bowl, add aloe vera and your oil.

Mix with a hand mixer on low speed for about 1 minute.

Pour into a small container with a lid and allow to cool.

Store your shea butter moisturizer in a cool dry place.

Use this on your face, elbows or anywhere on your body to give skin a smooth, youthful glow.





What Kind of Shea Butter is best?

Look for raw, unprocessed shea butter, which is a rich yellow color.

Where to buy Shea Butter:

Amazon.com offers several brands of raw, organic and natural shea butter, plus other oils and ingredients for your natural skin care recipes.

Natural, Anti-aging Skin Care Recipes

Want to make your own natural skin care recipes? Sue Dolan's ebook Naturally Sensational - Rejuvenating Skin Care Recipes featured in Real Simple Magazine, offers dozens of anti-aging skin care recipes for facial scrubs, masks, toners, moisturizers, under eye treatments, and much more - all made quickly and easily in your own kitchen with natural ingredients.

Besides recipes, Sue also offers antiaging tips for beautiful, younger looking skin. There is a valuable resource section which lists natural ingredients and how each one can help your skin, no matter what your skin type.



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