Healthy skin radiates life and energy. Everyone covets glowing, healthy skin. The right skin care treatment for you will help you look and feel your most vibrant and beautiful—while most importantly taking care of your skin the proper way. Shea butter and manuka honey together leave skin feeling softer and looking more supple. Use it on the spots that look red, dry or tired. These ingredients are gentle enough for dry, sensitive skin, including skin that's prone to eczema and psoriasis.
Read on to learn how this dynamic duo of skin care -- shea butter and manuka honey -- can bring your skin back to life!
The Benefits of Shea Butter
Shea butter comes from the shea tree in Africa. Since the days of the ancient Egyptians, the tree and nuts have been used for health and longevity. The shea tree was carved into funeral beds, the nuts ground into oils for makeup. The Egyptians likely invented makeup and sought eternal life, so it’s no wonder that they looked to the natural resources in the beautiful wilds of Africa and the Middle East for medicinal and beauty products.
The shea nut is rich in essential fatty acids. Traditionally, the nuts are cracked (to remove the hard outer shell), ground with a mortar and pestle and then boiled, using water, to help separate the oils. The ground nuts have a muddy brown color, but when the oil is extracted and unrefined it is creamy yellow. Chemical extraction methods and refining make some shea butter completely white or clear. Our natural shea butter retains its creamy hues, as variant as a field of daffodils.
The extracted oils in shea butter melt at body temperature, so they absorb rapidly and easily into skin. Shea butter's rich and gentle, which makes it a comfortable choice for flaky, dry, sensitive skin, including skin prone to eczema. Shea moisturizers also make excellent daily facial care products!
Manuka Honey, aka Liquid Gold
Manuka honey comes from New Zealand, where bees harvest the nectar of white or pink manuka flowers. The manuka tree itself has many wonderful properties; its oil has been used in aromatherapy for centuries!
Though the prickly leaves deter some predators, the bees feast on the shrub-like Manuka tree. Manuka honey retains some of the qualities of the plant while adding traits only these naturally raised bees could generate. Popular for its exceptional sweetness, manuka honey has been used around the world, but only recently has the rest of the world caught up with what New Zealand already knew about it.
Manuka honey carries vitamins, minerals and amino acids, and it soothes the feel of dry skin when you put it on. Hence, it’s introduction io skin care recently, where it has spread like wildfire!
When Shea and Manuka Meet
When used in combination, shea butter and manuka honey are a power team for skin care that cannot be ignored. Essential fatty acids hydrate and fill, often reducing fine lines and wrinkles in as little as two weeks.
Key vitamins and amino acids calm the look of redness, whether it comes from the sun, breakouts or sensitive skin. Skin feels noticeably calmer within a few applications. On eczema-prone skin, shea butter's moisture eases dryness and cracking, often within the first few days.
Shea butter's moisture calms the feel of flaky, itchy skin, and it works well alongside manuka honey.
Glowing, Healthy Skin is Waiting
When you use lotions, moisturizers, and treatments with shea butter and manuka honey, especially by combining products with both active ingredients, you make a commitment to healthier and more vibrant skin. Who doesn’t want that?
In as little as two weeks, skin feels softer, smoother and more nourished. Flaky, itchy, scaly skin feels calmer. Fine lines and wrinkles often improve, reducing the effects of damage to the skin and thereby revealing your healthiest skin! Shop the Wild Naturals online store today to have this dynamite team of natural ingredients part of your skin care routine!