Amazing Grace Shea Butter Cream
An amazing blend of Organic Shea Butter and Organic Oils...soothing & healing.
This specialty blend was created to fill the need to not only pamper my skin, but to help fight the aging process and repair some of the sun damage of my younger days. The combination that met with overwhelming approval from family members and friends was a combination of Organic Unrefined Shea Butter, Organic Coconut Oil and Organic Olive Oil. Along with that combination, I have infused the oils with either Frankincense & Myrrh Essential Oils, or with Pure Hi-altitude Bulgarian Lavender Essential Oil. Both are wonderful additions to include in your beauty regimen! If you would prefer a different essential oil, or no additions of essential oil, we can also make specialty blends just for you! Contact me for more information.
This combination melts on skin contact so is readily absorbed and doesn't leave a greasy feeling ~ but make sure you use just a dab, it goes a long, long way!
Shea butter has been well known for centuries in the country of Africa. They have used Shea Butter for generations to not only protect but to rejuvenate the hair and skin.
What Exactly IS Shea Butter?
Shea Butter can only be gleaned from the tropics of Africa. The Shea-Karite tree bears fruit after about 15 years but an take up to almost 30 years to bear a quality crop of nuts with a high content of irremovable fatty acid. It is this fatty acid that gives Shea Butter some of the well-known healing properties it boasts. Most Shea Butter originates in West Africa, although East Africa is now offering a more soft and smoother variety as well.
How Is Shea Butter Gathered?
Traditionally, people in the tropics would gather up the nuts, crack them, grill them and then pound the meat out of them. Then the meat was boiled for hours until the Shea Butter would rise to the surface, scooped up, then left in gourds or vats to cool and set. This wonderful creamy buttery meat is solid at room temperature, but quickly liquefies at body temp. This type of Shea Butter is usually called unrefined or raw and is usually a yellowish to yellowish-green in color with a nutty, natural type scent. If your Shea Butter happens to melt due to high temps, just simply put it in a cool place, stir once in a while to unify the oils, and you'll be good to go.
What Type of Shea Butter?
Pure Shea Butter has three types of extractions and has recently begun to be graded. The Raw or unrefined shea butter is the best and most valuable. It is extracted using water and ranges in color from a yellowish cream to a grayish yellow. The Refined of course is more highly processed, but it still has many of its natural components intact. The highly refined or processed shea butter has been processed to extreme and is white in color. Personally, I would not buy the highly refined.
Shea Butter has many valuable and time-tested uses - some of them are:
- Daily skin moisturizer (face and body)
- Restores luster to hair
- Dry skin & scalp relief
- Various types of Skin rashes - including diaper rash
- Skin peeling, after tanning
- Blemishes and wrinkles
- Itching skin due to dryness
- Sunburn or razor burn
- Small skin wounds or skin cracks
- Soften the skin on heels
- Helps prevent stretch marks during pregnancy
- Helps to heal Minor burns
- Eases the itchiness and helps heal Eczema
- Natural Vitamins that help protect from Sun and wind
- Helps Even skin tone and age spots
- Reduce blemishes and scarring
- Preventing bumps after shaving
- Reducing acne
- Absorbs quickly without leaving a greasy residue
- Helps restore elasticity to skin
- Very healing to aging skin
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Rescue Me - A soothing Blend for Minor Skin Irritations, cuts, and burns
Rescue Me! A soothing infusion of medicinal herbs and flowers to ease the irritation of minor skin problems, burns, even diaper rash!
Marigold (calendula officinalis) is admired for many various reasons. Some of them being well known in the kitchen and medicine cabinet, but just as much for it's beauty and aroma!
There are several ways you can utilize the dried or fresh flowers and here are few that may help you understand the importance of this small flower.
The dried flowers can be used to garnish your salad, flavor broth, stew, soups or other
simmering dishes. You can also pick them fresh and sprinkle them in your salad, mix them together in fruit dishes, jellies, or even use them as decorative garnish over iced muffins, cakes and cookies.
Many gardeners also know that the marigold will keep those pesky little leaf gnawers away from your favorite garden plant and use them to chase away these pesky critters.
Personally, I enjoy making a tea out of this beautiful little flower - just seep a few flowerets in a cup of hot water and it will help in the digestive area as well as give an added dose of what is needed for the liver and kidneys.
Need a natural beautiful yellow color to enhance your butter or cheeses, or to please a little child? Boil the flowers until you get the desired color - absolutely beautiful!
There are many ways to extract the benefits of the beautiful little calendula flower. You can make infusions or tinctures with either the standard alcohol base, or a vinegar or even water base. One of my favorite infusions is an olive oil and calendula that is simmered on a sunny windowsill for several weeks and then made into healing balms and salves.
In our RESCUE ME! healing salve, we've used our famous Calendula Olive Oil Infusion, Lavender Olive Oil Infusion and Patchouli Olive Oil Infusion to which pure essential oils of Tea Tree and Lavender have been added and then a bit of natural unrefined beeswax to allow the balm to glide on extra smooth.
This ingredients in this blend are anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antiseptic and often used for skin infections and irritations. RESCUE ME! also helps to heal dry or cracked skin and has had reports of excellent treatment for severe sunburn, eczema, acne, and other skin disorders too numerous to name. The calendula infusion along with the lavender and patchouli infusions is one of the best winter healing creams that will penetrate through the skin and carry the herbal healing powers into the body stimulating the self healing process.
This wonderful blend was designed to offer a healing mix of organic Olive Oil infused with the healing properties of natural, wild crafted Lavender leaves, Patchouli leaves and Calendula Petals with natural unrefined beeswax to bring it together in a smooth, creamy salve. This soothing salve literally melts on contact and is immediately absorbed into the skin and feels like silk.
The healing qualities of each ingredient adds to the benefits of this salve and helps to rejuvenate the skin and begin the healing process more quickly. Keep one in the kitchen, one in the bath and one in your purse for quick access!
