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Fair-Trade, Custom Wildcrafted, Hand Harvested Shea Butter
 RainShadow Labs is a company in service to our customers, our community, and our planet. We are committed to supporting sustainable practices and this commitment extends into our raw goods in a very real way. With this in mind, we have secured a direct connection in Ghana, Africa for our Shea Butter. You will not find another Shea Butter on the world market that can hold a candle to our raw, wild, hand harvested Shea Butter. The quality is unparalleled and it is a truly special raw good.
 A group of tribeswomen in Ghana have formed a co-operative in their village, and are creating hope, vibrance, and abundance for their families and their village through the process of plugging into the American market with this superior nut butter. We are happy to be supporting our sisters in Ghana with fair trade pricing, as well as helping them to develop their manufacturing practices. All of our Shea Butter at RainShadow Labs is coming to us directly from this co-op in Ghana, and know that by utilizing RainShadow Labs as your custom formula house, you are supporting wonderful things in the world. The picture of the women hand processing the Shea Butter is our actual in-house Shea Butter being extracted.
A bit about Shea Butter...also known as karite butter which is extracted from the nuts of the genus Butyrosperum Parkii Kotschy tree which grows in Central Africa. Shea Butter is superior to cocoa and jojoba butter in its ability to heal damaged and dry skin.
 Shea Butter provides great protection for the skin from the elements, sun, photoageing, and elimination of superficial irritations, burns, eczema, dermatitis, dermatosis, and all damaged hair conditions. Shea Butter is an extremely therapeutic emollient with chemical constituents that help to heal bruising and soreness. Containing high levels of vitamin A, E, unsaponifiables and cinnamic esters, these high antimicrobial and moisturizing properties heal and renew the skin as well as the entire body.
The natives of Central Africa as well as those in Japan use Shea Butter butter for food as well as body care. Shea Butter butter is a replacement for regular dairy butter in foods, and a perfect replacement for dairy butter in cooking for vegetarians. Shea Butter is an outstanding source of essential fatty acids, linoleic acids, and stands out as an exceptional source of unsaponifiable material.
 In Africa, it has also long been used with astonishing results as a massage balm for tired and sore muscles, rheumatism, burns, and light wounds. Shea Butter has a stimulating effect on the metabolism, and clinical research has indicated that Shea Butter increases local capillary circulation which in turn increases tissue re-oxygenation and improves the elimination of metabolic waste products. A natural anti-oxidant agent, B-amyrine and tocopherols protect the double bond of the oil as a whole and the unsaponifiable compounds in particular. This makes Shea Butter a truly fantastic anti-ageing topical as well as dietary supplement.
Another asset natural to raw Shea Butter is its high protection against ultraviolet rays. Clinical tests consistently show that Shea Butter without PABA naturally prevents sunburn when exposed to UV rays. This is a wonderful alternative to chemical sun-protection factors. We cannot find anything that is other than absolutely wonderful about our Shea Butter, from the bathroom to the kitchen to the bedroom. We happily share this scrumptious and sustainable product with you. As always, we are in service to you!!!
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