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How to keep black skin shining:How I keep mine!

In this post, I will be sharing tips on how to keep black skin shining. To be a dark skinned person is one of the most flattering gift nature would endow on any male or female. But heyy,just because its a gift does not mean that it would take care of its self. It needs to be nourished and taken care of.

Here are some ways on how to keep black skin shining

Drink lots of water in a day to help keep black skin shining

First and most important skin care factor is drinking lots of water in a day.

How to keep black skin glowing — Glass of water

It is important to take at least 7 glasses of water a day. Taking in water constantly helps to nourish the skin. It is essential to drink these several glasses of water because we don’t want our skin dry and flaky.Do we? I guess not!

Shea Butter

How to keep black skin shining — Unrefined Shea butter

Okay so moving on,my number one recipe for a nice dark glowy skin is Shea butter.

Yes! Shea butter!!!.

Shea butter is the most reliable butter for a glowy skin. I have a way of preparing my Shea Butter for use. Want to find out? Then keep on reading!

How I prepare my Shea butter for use

This is how I prepare mine before using it on my skin.

Shea butter in its all natural form is kindda hard to rub in my palm plus it leaves residues on the skin after smearing it. I really don’t like how it feels on my skin this way.Therefore,before I use it,I put it on fire just to melt( do not cook it ) and then I add in my Johnson’s baby oil

Now the reason for adding this baby oil is that,because its made for babies, it has little to no harsh effect. Again,it brings down the strong smell of the shea butter when applied on the body. It also helps considerably in helping the skin to soften up. You can other essential oils if you don’t like the baby oil. It would work either ways.

After mixing in the baby oil in the melted Shea butter, I let it sit for a while to cool down and settle into a solid form(yes it gets back into a solid form).

It is now excellent for me to use now. The Shea butter now turns soft and pleasant for me to use.

How I apply it

I normally apply it twice daily.

One in the morning after my bath and one in the evening before I go to sleep.

This routine has helped me immensely in helping to keep my skin smooth and shiny all year round.

find out the benefits of shea butter in our previous post.

I hope you enjoyed reading this piece.

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Uses of shea butter

Last time, I posted about how to get your skin to glow using raw Shea butter. Today, I am going to talk about the other benefits and uses of Shea butter. You would be suprised of some of its uses. There are a lot of shops online that makes getting shea butter easy these days

ENJOY!!!!!

Shea butter contains natural essentials that are good to use and help in preventing a lot of mishap on our bodies. Shea butter contains vitamins,plant sterols ,cinnamic esters,etc which are all good for the skin. Let’s check out some of the uses of Shea Butter below. Ya ready?

Shea butter is used in treating eczema

I bet you didn’t know about that right? Due to the presence of the cinnamic esters,it helps in treating eczemas. Just rub it at where the eczema is showing and poof! You are good to go. But wait! Report extreme eczema cases to a dermatologist!

Intense moisturizer

If you have a dry skin the best moisturizer to use is Shea butte.Use it on your skin day and night for the best results! I know people wh use it together with black soap. That is ,black soap for bathing ando Shea Butter for moisturizing. It gives the best results.

Anti inflammatory

Do you have a bug bite? Has it swelled up? Then I’m glad to tell you that Shea Butter can help it bring the swelling down.

Scar eraser

Shea butter can also help in erasing scars and especially dark spots if you had acnes. I personally have a testimony to share on this. I had loads of mosquito bites scars on my legs and I used Shea Butter intensely for 3 months ( yes! for better results). It completely cleared all the scars on my legs. You can try it out too

Eases nasal congestion

Shea butter can be used as a
Nasal decongester

Nothing can be compared to being unable to breath due to clogged nose. It’s darned terrible. To ease congestion in the nose,apply Shea butter into the nostrils. Within some minutes your nasal will be declogged.

As a hair conditioner

Shea butter when applied to wet hair ,helps to seal in the moisture in the hair. The most amazing part is, it leaves your hair shinning. Isn’t that lovely?

Applied on dry lips

Winter is coming!!!! Why should you have your lips dry and cracking when there is Shea butter to prevent it? Apply some and you are good to go.

Minimizing stretch marks

Got stretch marks on your body? Apply Shea butter to it daily to tone it down. I have not seen Shea Butter completely erasing stretch marks. It toned mine down. You can try it out to see. Who knows! It may erase yours!

Prevents sunburns

Shea butter can help prevent getting sun burnt. Yh apply generous amount to where it easily gets sun burnto. Thank me later!

Relieves nappy rash

Just apply Shea Butter on the rash to relieve the itchiness and burn the rash down

Helps to prevent rigor mortis in dead bodies

Yep!!! Dead bodies. If a person is found dead in an uncomfortable posture,Shea butter can be used to straighten out any rigid part of the corpse. My grandfather died sitting in a chair. His neck and arms were stiff due to his posture. Shea Butter was applied to the stiff parts and it worked like magic

Do you know of other uses of Shea butter?Let us know in the comments section below

Shea Butter is an all natural body butter which has a lot of benefits. The uses of Shea Butter are uncountable. In this post, we share with you some the benefits and uses of Shea butter