Skin Inflammations

Dealing with Skin Inflammations

Skin Inflammations are often due to cuts or scrapes that have become infected. Although inflammations often heal by themselves, in order to eliminate the irritation as quickly as possible and to avoid unsightly effects, it's a good idea to treat the inflammation.

Treatment for Skin Inflammations

The best treatment for inflammations is to fight the infection while at the same time healing the damage that has already been done to the skin. Shea butter contains healing agents that can both fight infections and restore the skin that has been cut or otherwise damaged to a healthy state. The essential oils that amplify the healing effects of shea butter for skin inflammations include Jasmine, Lavender, Myrrh, Patchouli.

The following Karite Gold products each contain Shea Butter and one or more of the essential oils that are most efficacious for inflammations, and they are all about equally effective. Click on any of these products to find out more about them.

• Shea Butter with Jasmine   (fragrance: delicate jasmine)
• Shea Butter with Lavender and Myrrh   (fragrance: light and soothing)
• Shea Butter with Lavender, Grapefruit and Vanilla   (fragrance: fresh and invigorating)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Lavender   (fragrance: soft and alluring)
• Shea Butter with Bergamot and Myrrh   (fragrance: vigorous but unobtrusive)
• Shea Butter with Vanilla, Grapefruit and Myrrh   (fragrance: mellow citrous)
• Shea Butter with Ylang-Ylang and Myrrh   (fragrance: pleasantly sweet with seductive undertones)
• Shea Butter with Bergamot and Patchouli   (fragrance: subtley spicey with a hint of the outdoors)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Patchouli   (fragrance: earthy and unpretentious)
• Shea Butter with Ylang-Ylang, Vanilla and Patchouli   (fragrance: fragile yet harmonious)

To treat a skin inflammation, apply a moderate amount of Karite Gold three times a day. After you have coated an area of your skin with shea butter, spend some time making sure that the shea butter works its way down under the surface of your skin. Move your fingers in a circular motion as you apply the shea butter.

To learn more about Shea Butter and the essential oils that are used for inflammations, click on the links below:

• Shea Butter
• Jasmine
• Lavender
• Myrrh
• Patchouli

Alternative Medicine

For an explanation of why this treatment works, we recommend the book Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils by Kurt Schnaubelt. If your skin problem persists, we strongly recommend that you see a medical professional - either a dermatologist or a practioner of wholistic medicine who specializes in skin problems.

Click here to learn about other skin problems, besides inflammations, that shea butter has been known to help. Click here to go back to the top of this Skin Inflammations page.