INCI: Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
Rich botanical emollience for lasting softness, moisture retention, and skin-barrier support.
What Is Shea Butter?
Shea Butter is a rich botanical butter obtained from the kernels of the shea tree, Vitellaria paradoxa. Used for generations in personal care, it is valued for its creamy texture, substantial emollience, and ability to help protect skin from excessive moisture loss.
Unlike a liquid botanical oil, Shea Butter has a naturally semi-solid consistency that gives creams, body butters, balms, and scrubs additional richness and structure while providing a smooth, conditioning feel on the skin.
Benefits
Shea Butter helps soften and condition dry, rough, and moisture-depleted skin. Its emollient lipids help smooth the skin's surface while supporting the natural moisture barrier and reducing moisture loss.
Its rich texture makes it particularly useful for areas that benefit from more substantial conditioning, including hands, elbows, knees, legs, heels, and other dry-feeling areas of the body.
Fatty Acids + Natural Components
Shea Butter contains a naturally occurring mixture of fatty acids, particularly oleic and stearic acids, along with smaller amounts of linoleic and palmitic acids. This lipid profile contributes to its characteristic balance of richness, structure, and spreadability.
Shea Butter also contains an unsaponifiable fraction composed of minor naturally occurring plant constituents. Together with its fatty acids, these components contribute to the distinctive conditioning properties that make Shea Butter a valued ingredient in botanical body care.
Shea Butter + the Moisture Barrier
Maintaining comfortable skin involves more than simply adding water. The skin's lipid barrier helps limit water loss and maintain softness and flexibility.
As an emollient-rich botanical butter, Shea helps reinforce the conditioning oil phase of a formulation, smoothing the skin's surface and helping retain moisture. This makes it especially valuable when combined with humectants and other botanical oils in complete moisturizing formulas.
Why We Use Shea Butter
At Pure Intox, Shea Butter is used across several types of body-care formulations because it provides both functional structure and substantial skin conditioning.
In Mineral-Rich Magnesium Cream, Shea Butter contributes rich emollience and complements the cream's water-based and moisturizing ingredients, helping leave the skin feeling soft and comfortably conditioned.
In Neural Recovery Balm and Herbal Restoration Balm, Shea Butter works alongside botanical oils, infused oils, and waxes to create a concentrated balm texture with the glide and staying power suited to focused body-care rituals.
In Nourishing Shea Butter Sugar Scrub, it helps condition the skin as the physical exfoliant removes surface buildup. In Whipped Botanical Body Butter, Shea provides the rich, cushioning texture and lasting emollience expected from an intensive body moisturizer.
Sourcing & Quality
Shea Butter is obtained from the kernels of the shea tree and selected for cosmetic purity, consistency, and performance. Its naturally occurring fatty acids and characteristic texture make it particularly well suited to creams, body butters, scrubs, balms, and other moisture-focused formulations.
Appropriate processing, formulation, and storage help maintain the butter's quality and sensory characteristics throughout the life of the finished product.
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