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creating alohas butters
If your wondering why Creating Alohas Wonder Butters are so wonderful, here's why. Butters are the best ingredients for skin care.
Butters are created from natural sources, including beans, nuts, and seeds. While those ingredients might sound more like food than skincare, these natural products have numerous amazing benefits for skin! In addition to their moisturizing benefits, they can also have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, and often contain vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids.
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almond butter
Almond butter
has several potential benefits for skin and hair health. Almond butter is a potent source of antioxidants, vitamins, and other nutrients found in almonds that are vital for skin health. Maholo to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, almond butter has many uses. Some people add almond oil to smoothies, while others use it topically as part of their daily skin routine.
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Research has shown that using hand cream made with almond butter can offer relief from hand dermatitis. In one study, people who used the cream found that it relieved symptoms like burning, stinging, redness, and itchy skin.6
Some people use almond butter as a daily face moisturizer because they feel it improves their complexion and skin tone. You can apply almond butter to your face overnight as a moisturizer.
aloe vera butter
Aloe Butter, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil and Aloe Leaf Extract, is an extraction of healing aloe in coconut oil so that it can be used as a botanical butter. This great product provides all the key skincare properties of both Aloe Vera and coconut oil.
Moisturizing Aloe Butter has natural anti-inflammatory properties, melts on contact with the skin, and is wonderful for treating dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, sunburn, and capping.
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It has a creamed consistency and melts instantly upon contact with the skin.
It contains vitamin C, E, B, and B12, as well as anti-oxidants that hydrate and rejuvenate the skin. It also features a special compound called choline that helps in maintaining memory power, mood, and muscle control and contributes to proper cell membrane formation.
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It is ideal for soothing, moisturizing, repairing, and protecting both skin and hair.
In hair care, aloe butter can help to moisturize, condition, and repair dry, damaged, brittle hair and split ends, as well as soothe dry and irritated scalp problems including dandruff.
avocado butter
Avocado butter is one of the secrets to beauty and healthy skin. This natural extract of avocado is rich in vitamins A, D, and E, unsaturated fatty acids, and lecithin, all of which are beneficial to your general health and that of your skin.
Synthetic equivalents cannot possibly contain the same components in a natural form, nor be as easily used by the body as their pure, natural counterparts found in the avocado plant. The benefits of avocado butter for skin are seemingly endless.
Avocado butter can also help prevent premature aging/wrinkles, and reduces dark marks, lightens skintone, moisturizes your skin and hair, prevents sun damage, imparts relief to dehydrated and ultra-sensitive skin.
coconut butter
Coconut butter acts great on the skin as a natural moisturizer. It promotes skin elasticity and fights free radicals to maintain a youthful complexion. The antioxidant compounds found in the butter are quickly absorbed by the skin, and it penetrates deep layers. It is a rich source of triglycerides.
These fatty acid components get together to create a barrier that locks in moisture.
Lauric acid found in coconut butter is effective against bacterial growth. It is also a rich source of collagen, which is an important ingredient that speeds up the wound healing process. It assists cells to the site of the wound, boosting tissue growth.
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Cocoa butter prevents sun damage. It also deeply moisturizes and nourishes the skin after UV ray exposure and it can help soothe sunburns!
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Cocoa butter has emollient properties. Due to its fatty acid content, it deeply hydrates the skin and it prevents the skin from drying and peeling. It also nourishes the skin due to the oleic, palmitic, and stearic acids in its composition, all known for preventing dry skin. These fatty acids create a protective coating on the skin, sealing in the moisture.
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hempseed butter
Hempseed butter has numerous health benefits, including those that improve skin health. It’s so beneficial for skin health thanks to its nourishing vitamins and amazing moisturizing qualities.
One of the omega-6 fatty acids that hempseed butter contains is gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory while simultaneously encouraging skin growth and new cell generation.
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Hempseed butter calms inflammation and irritation on the skin, including acne and some conditions like psoriasis, while keeping the skin nourished and moisturized.
In addition to moisturizing and soothing the skin, hempseed butter has anti-aging properties. Hempseed butter can help reduce fine lines and wrinkles as well as prevent signs of aging from developing.
The linoleic acid and oleic acids found in hempseed butter can’t be produced by the body but can play a crucial role in skin health and anti-aging
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kokum butter
Kokum butter has powerful moisturizing properties and doesn't clog pores.
It's frequently used to treat a variety of skin issues, including acne, minor inflammatory conditions, and dry skin, hair, and scalp.
Kokum butter is known to be rich in essential fatty acids.
Essential fatty acids such as omega-3 and omega-6 help to keep the skin cells, tissues healthy, thereby improving the texture and appearance of your skin.
Kokum butter is high in polyunsaturated fats that nourish and moisturize your skin and form a protective layer on your skin making it plump and moisturized.
The high concentrations of fatty acids make Kokum butter a key ingredient in many cosmetic and skincare products. It provides stability to your skincare formula.
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Kokum butter is a rich source of Vitamin E which acts as an excellent antioxidant. Its antioxidant property is known to improve the immune system and helps to promote healthy skin. It also protects the skin from free radicals which are formed when your skin is exposed to the harmful UV rays and extreme climatic conditions. Being lightweight, Kokum butter gets absorbed into the skin easily and helps to lighten, brighten the skin.
Mango Butter
Mango butter contains high concentrations of Vitamin C, which research shows stimulates the production of collagen. Collagen is a compound found in your skin and in the connective tissues that make up your tendons, ligaments, and muscles.
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Mango butter is absolutely incredible in moisturizing the skin. When applied topically, it absorbs easily, providing even deeper layers of the skin with skin-loving nutrients, such as omega 6 and 9 fatty acids and vitamins A, C, and E.
Mango butter conditions your skin, makes it smooth, supple and improves its overall health and appearance. It also strengthens the skin’s natural protective barrier, which helps your skin retain moisture, prevents damages, and drying out.
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There are several reasons why mango butter is a great anti-aging agent. First, it is packed with antioxidants that protect the skin against free radicals (damaging particles in the air). Second, it is very moisturizing, and well-moisturized skin is smooth, resilient, and better protected from the harmful external influences.
Most importantly, mango butter contains vitamin A, an antioxidant that stimulates the skin’s natural renewal process. It encourages the skin to produce new, healthy skin cells, improves the skin’s texture and elasticity, and protects the skin against damage caused by UV radiation. All of this leads to fewer wrinkles, fewer fine lines, and firmer skin.
shea butter
Shea butter is typically used for its extraordinary moisturizing effects. These benefits are tied to shea’s fatty acid content, including linoleic, oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids.
When you apply shea topically, these oils are rapidly absorbed into your skin. They act as a “refatting” agent, restoring lipids and rapidly creating moisture.
This restores the barrier between your skin and the outside environment, holding moisture in and reducing your risk of dryness.
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Shea butter contains high levels of linoleic acid and oleic acid. These two acids balance each other out. That means shea butter is easy for your skin to fully absorb and won’t make your skin look oily after application.
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The plant esters of shea butter have been found to have anti-inflammatory properties.
When applied to the skin, shea triggers cytokines and other inflammatory cells to slow their production.
This may help minimize irritation caused by environmental factors, such as dry weather, as well as inflammatory skin conditions, such as eczema.
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Shea butter has significant levels of vitamins A, E, and F, and powerful
antioxidant that promote circulation and healthy skin cell growth.
Antioxidants are important anti-aging agents. They protect your skin cells from free radicals that can lead to premature aging and dull-looking skin.
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Shea butter is extremally effective and powerful at fighting skin infections caused by fungi.
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Shea butter contains triterpenes. These naturally occurring chemical compounds are thought to deactivate collagen fiber destruction.
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Shea’s moisturizing and antioxidant properties work together to help your skin generate healthy new cells.
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Shea butter stops keloid fibroblasts scar tissue from reproducing, while encouraging healthy cells to grow in their place.
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Shea butter reduces what researchers call photoaging the wrinkles and fine lines that environmental stress and aging can create on skin.