Lost With Shea Butter

Refined shea butter is not good because they refine the shea butter with bleach that removes alot of moisturizing benefits. You can find it at a natural food store, I get mine at a local African food store.

Not Layla- but when i purchased shea butter last i got mine from www.agbangakarite.com and i was very pleased with my purchase. Plus the money actually goes back to the village that produced it. Hope this helps.

The trick is that you do a hot oil treatment on the hair with the shea butter and do your regular shampoo and conditon. Dry hair absorbs oil better and then you wash away whatever your hair didn't absorb. Sometimes I even do it overnight putting the oil in my hair and sleeping with it.

cmesweet wrote: I used it while I transitoned and it made my hair super soft. I just melted it and then put a plastic cap over my head and used a hot towel...a friend showed me to wet a towel and warm it in them microwave real low....It worked...but now shea butter makes my natural hair greasey so I haven't done it in a while.

Jazmynsgrandma wrote: Hi, I'm fairly new here to this board and I read your post about the nassabb shea butter.  I just purchased it after going onto their website and received the products yesterday afternoon.   My question to you is this: what do you do to mask the smokey smell of the shea butter?  I love the texture of it and the way it made my skin super soft and it stayed that way for a very long time, but the smell is almost too much to bear.  Could you help me out, please???? Thanks so much for your help.  You have been an inspiration to me since i've been reading all the posts here.  I've been changing my routine with my hair for about 2 months now and I have to say, you ladies sure do know what you are talking about when it comes to hair   My hair has grown and has not shedded in over a month now.  Thank you, thank you for your sharing of your beauty secrets.  It's been a blessing.

It does have a kind of unpleasant, smokey smell but I've just learned to deal with it.  It works so good I don't even care.  The smell usually goes after awhile anyway.  Like Layla said, you can also add some essential oils to it such as jasmine, rose, ylang ylang...etc. 

It's great to hear how good your hair is doing.

Umm, I cant order anything or products on the internet cuz Im to young and I dont have a credit card and my dad sometimes trip about his..So umm do you know like what stores or where I can buy some good Unrefined Shea Butter from? And What Brand.

Hi,

I'm fairly new here to this board and I read your post about the nassabb shea butter.  I just purchased it after going onto their website and received the products yesterday afternoon.   My question to you is this: what do you do to mask the smokey smell of the shea butter?  I love the texture of it and the way it made my skin super soft and it stayed that way for a very long time, but the smell is almost too much to bear.  Could you help me out, please????

Thanks so much for your help.  You have been an inspiration to me since i've been reading all the posts here.  I've been changing my routine with my hair for about 2 months now and I have to say, you ladies sure do know what you are talking about when it comes to hair   My hair has grown and has not shedded in over a month now.  Thank you, thank you for your sharing of your beauty secrets.  It's been a blessing.

 

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BrownEyez2I hear alot of women on forums who are relaxed that use shea butter, especially in the baggie method...I used it as a hot treatment only cause it was too greasey for me, but as a hot oil treatment it made my relaxed hair super soft. 

Aseya-You can melt shea butter in multiple ways...one way is putting shea butter in a container and letting the container sit in hot water...this usually takes a while.  You can melt it on low on top of the stove or you can melt it in the microwave on low (u don't want to get a burn).

how do you properly melt the shea butter?

cmesweet wrote: I used it while I transitoned and it made my hair super soft. I just melted it and then put a plastic cap over my head and used a hot towel...a friend showed me to wet a towel and warm it in them microwave real low....It worked...but now shea butter makes my natural hair greasey so I haven't done it in a while.

Okay...thanks.  Just one more question....do you do this after you've shampooed and conditioned?  I haven't done a hot oil treatment in forever so I forgot.  I think I will try this.

cmesweet wrote: Have you tried using your shea butter as a hotoil treatment?

I've really been wanting to try doing that.  How do you do it?  Im assuming just melt the oil first and then apply and sit under dryer?  Does it work well?