Not many people know what the difference between your yellow and your white Shea butter is. The meaning of the raw butter is that it is finished after the cooling process over, and it is all natural from there the pale yellow to creamy white color. When you wash the Shea butter and melt it in the raw process, you will find a refined product. After this process is over the next step can start until all the steps are completed and the final product remains with a white color. You also get Shea butter that they process with chemicals such as hexane, which leaves the butter pure white and that, is what they call ultra-refined Shea butter. Ultra-refined Shea butter has no natural qualities left after the process with the chemicals. Again, it brings you back to the question of which one is the best the raw or the refined product. Making a choice between raw two types of Shea butter is more likely a case of preference because it is only the smell and the texture, which differs.
Many people use the raw product in their homemade recipes to ensure that they get the best quality of product and healing effects. Other unique properties of pure or raw Shea butter are nonsaponifiable fatty acids which improve the elasticity of the skin; cinnamic acid which is a natural sunscreen; Vitamins A, E and F which helps in the prevention of wrinkles; anti-elastase properties which reduce stretch marks; anti-inflammatory agents which relieves eczema and stigmasterol which is useful to relax tired muscles. It does make you think as to why we as humans have not thought of using natural product all through our lives. Here we have something, which can help us, but instead we go for expensive products that are non-effective and very expensive medical procedures, which leave us in much pain.
White Shea Butter is excellent for your hair. You need to wash your hair as you normally do and dry it with a towel. Once most of the water is out of your hair you can take some of the Shea Butter and massage it into your scalp down to the roots of your hair. It is best if you leave it in your hair for about half an hour before you rinse it off again. If you do this three times a week, you will have beautiful and healthy hair.