What the heck is shea butter and what does it come from ??
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Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa, syn. Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxa) is a tree indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. The shea fruit, called a nut, contains a seed much like an avocado, from which is extracted shea butter, which has multiple uses.\n\nSome common names are shétoulou ("shea tree butter") in the Bambara language of Mali and ghariti in the Wolof language of Senegal.\n\nThe tree is perhaps better known as Butyrospermum parkii (the genus name meaning "butter seed"; the epithet honouring Mungo Park, who learned of the tree while exploring Senegal). However, Vitellaria paradoxa is the earlier name and has priority, and should therefore be used (a proposal to conserve Butyrospermum parkii failed narrowly).\n\nShea trees take approximately 30 years to reach maturity.
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OMG Sheila! I used hair spray once! I had to peel my shirt off and thank God I had shaved under my arms or I hate to think what would have happened then. I felt so stupid! The worst part is that it was Super Hold hair spray. But I'll give you one better. When I was a police officer, I worked with a Detective who was a lot like Colombo. You know, so dumb he was smart? He was a good cop but he couldn't couldn't eat a sandwich without getting mayonaise on his fingers and then he would touch his head when he was talking, just Lt. Colombo would and everytime he'd get mayo on his forehead! One day, we were all at the station for role call and he walked in and he was just scratching himself all over his arms and his chest. I said "Robert, what wrong?" and he said "I don't know. I'm itching something terrible. I think I'm allergic to this new shower lotion that my wife just bought." I said "Shower Lotion?" and he said, "Yeah, it's from Dial. The soap people." I started laughing and I said "Robert, roll up your sleeve." He looked at me kind of funny and rolled up his sleeve and there was white streaks all over his skin and it was sticky to the touch. After I stopped laughing, I said "Robert, you goofy sh#t, you've covered yourself with liquid Dial soap, not lotion! You'd better get home and rinse it off, now!" After that we removed all the liquid soap from the station bathrooms and stuff just to mess with him. He ended up with like ten trial size things of body lotion in his mail box at the station. Oh, and thank you for you kind response to my "forgive me" plea. I'm not usually so cranky but I guess I had a moment there where I lost myself. As an American, it gets a bit tiring when everyone hates you just for being an American. I suppose the entire world doesn't hate us but sometimes it seems that way. Take care, Sweetie and thanks again. God bless.
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(m)\n\neczema dries out the skin, the most direct way to treat eczema is to help the skin regain its moisture retention capacity. Just moisturizing your skin isn't enough. When a moisturizer is applied, it hydrates the cells, but the cells quickly lose the moisture. If substances that work synergistically together to restore the skin cells' elasticity are applied to the skin, then as the healing progresses, the cells continue to admit moisture as before, but after the healing are better able to keep it from escaping.\n\nShea butter is a wonderful agent for revitalizing our skin cells so that they regain their moisture retention capacity. Unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction. To enhance the shea butter's ability to reverse the effects of eczema, we have infused it with 2essential oils: bergamot and patchouli.\n\nIngredients\nThis product contains:\n\nShea Butter\n\nShea Butter has been used for centuries in Africa to keep skin healthy and beautiful. Shea Butter's almost magical effects are due to the fact that it has both a high moisturizing fraction and an extraordinarily high healing fraction.\n\nBergamot\n\nBergamot oil's antiseptic action makes it useful for the treatment of acne and skin infections.\n\nPatchouli\n\nPatchouli oil regenerates skin cells and thus is used for a wide variety of skin problems\n\nVirgin Olive Oil\n\nPure virgin olive oil is used to give our shea butter a softer consistency. But it has beneficial effects for your skin as well; its unique constituents nourish parched, sensitive skin, and restore it to a more youthful and supple appearance.\n\nKarite Gold - Eczema Treatment Formula is a totally natural skin care product.\n\nPure Shea Butter\nIf you would prefer to purchase pure shea butter -- that is, shea butter without any essential oi
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What is this stuff, anyway?\n\nEar wax is a sticky liquid secreted by cerumen glands. It isn't really wax in the 'candle wax' sense (paraffin). Skin contains many tiny glands whose sole purpose is to secrete a variety of substances. Sebaceous glands, for example, secrete sebum, which gives skin its greasy quality. Sweat is also produced by microscopic glands. Cerumen glands are found only in the skin of the ear canals\n.\nWhat good is it?\n\nEar wax, sticky stuff that it is, traps anything foreign that flies, crawls, or is blown into the ear canals. Dirt, tiny bits of plant material, small insects, bacteria, and so forth are immobilized by wax. Think of wax as the sticky stuff on a No Pest Strip. The primary purpose of ear wax is to protect your ear canal and ear drum from such foreign materia
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Cell membranes are made of lipid bilayers, meaning it is made of a type of fat.  KOH is a strong base that is capable of reacting with the fat in the same reaction that produces soap.  This destroys the lipid bilayer
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Its razor burn ...DONT use anti itch cream, you will hit the ceiling.  Also dont use any perfumed products as that will further irratate the skin.  Use any cream designed for nappy rash, that really is the best thing to use.
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use butter, its amazing it really works!
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It is called Total Fatty Matter. It gives the lather producing capacity of the soap. The more it is the good the soap is.
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Another one for wikipedia.com:\n\n"Many soaps are mixtures of sodium (soda) or potassium (potash) salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by the base, yielding glycerol and crude soap. Historically, the alkali used was potassium made from the deliberate burning of vegetation such as bracken, or from wood ashes.\n\nSoap is derived from either oils or fats. Sodium Tallowate, a common ingredient in many soaps, is in fact derived from rendered beef fat. Soap can also be made of vegetable oils, such as olive oil. Soap made entirely from such oils, or nearly so, is called castile soap. The use of the word "soap" has become such a household name that even cleaning solutions for the body that don't have soap in the ingredients are referred to as soap."\n\nThere you have it: fats or oils.
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I think its an Anitoxidant. It enchances blood flow or something. It is a combination of Gaba and Niacin.  I'am no science freak. I heard it on some channel.
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WOW....i just went to the website and never heard of this. I also have never seen it at any stores. I think many women don't use it because they haven't heard of it yet. I went throught the entire website and find "Instead" to be very interesting. I put in a order and will try it. Thx so much for this info because I am so tired of pads and tampoons. I hope this becomes a life saver.
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its a petroleum product . now they also make it from animal tal i.e. non edible oil coming as by product from slaughter houses
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Okay, go to Wal-Mart and go to the hand & lotion dept. There you'll find a cream called "UDDERLEY SMOOTH" tonight when you go to bed, "smother" your hands in this and put a pair of gloves on and wear them over night. They use this cream on cow udders to keep them from chapping, so you "know" it's got to be good for our skin. I have dry skin all over, and it works great for me, okay? Good luck. P.S. It's only 1.99 per tube!
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I can give you a hint on the beeswax! (it involves bees). Same for sesame oil. (not the bees bit)\nCastor oil is from castor beans.\n\nPut the rest into Wikipedia!
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Oh my GOD!!!! WHAT ABOUT BABY OIL!?!?!?! I just realized what they use to make it.... all of those innocent children!!!!
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its a wax:\nWaxes have a fatty acid bonded to a longchain alcohol by the oxygen and is a two part chain with a double bonded o to the fatty acid\n\nFats have a glycerol backbone with three fatty acid chains attached which is clearly not this one\n\nOils are same as fats in that they have glycerol backbone and serves like fat in the sense that fat:animals::oil:plants\n\nSoap... idk whats up with that answer but i know that old time soap was made from some sort of fat and now they are process differently with different material. no matter what, it does not have the right chemical make up
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When i was pregnant i got them bad on my hips and i always used Palmers Coco Butter for pregnant women or stretch marks and they went away. I works really good it prevents new ones from coming and takes the old ones away, and its not expensive and you can get it at Wal-Mart