Bing! I opened my newest package of shea butter and instantly felt as if I needed sunglasses. It was as deep yellow as it could be! Nope, there is nothing wrong with the shea butter. It is completely natural. Shea butter varies in color from cream to yellow.
As a reminder, due to natural variances in shea butter, my goat milk lotion ranges from a pale butter color to nearly pure white. The scent of the shea butter also varies in strength. The scent of shea butter in a lotion dissipates within minutes of application to the skin.
Shea butter is an excellent skin softener! A small dab of shea butter applied to the ends of your hair after shampooing works better than an expensive bottle of conditioner. Shea butter is also great for sore or ragged cuticles. And, my family and I have used shea butter to heal burns and scars!
For more shea butter information, here is my original shea butter article. And here is my article regarding product storage. Shea butter and other natural ingredients require room temperature storage. DO NOT leave your lotions, creams, or other natural products in a very hot environment. The car is NOT a good place for storage!
FYI…whipped shea butter samples will soon be available. The cooler fall temps will allow me to ship without the fear of a melt-down. Who wants a melt-down???!!! Not I!
Annies Goat Hill Handcrafted Soaps 
We’ve used Shea butter when we were making soap.
Amy
i’ve used it in my beeswax hand bars. 🙂
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know you shouldn’t leave lotion in the heat. Nor did I know shea butter was better than conditioner.
Amy and Lynnanne, it is great stuff in soap!
Becky, it works well on hair ends that are very dry. I personally would not use it at the roots, unless my hair was dry throughout.
Most lotions contain enough chemicals and preservatives to retain consistency in thickness, and prevent growth of bacteria, when stored in high heat, but many natural (and nearly natural) products require cooler (room temp) storage.
Hi Mary! I love shea butter…it is good stuff!
Isn’t shea butter great and so versatile. I like using it on my hair.
Hello Jennifer!
Delores, it does work wonders. 🙂
Some people dont realise that Shea Butter works for all skin types. They assume because it comes from Africa that it is best used by dark skins but this is not the case at all.
Hi there. I love shea butter. I use it in lotion, soap, and “straight” on my skin and hair (sparingly). I agree with you, many people think it is more for those that are dark skinned. Not so! We need to keep working on that notion, don’t we?!