Wrinkles - What to Do

Causes of Wrinkles

As we grow older, our skin changes. It begins to lose its capacity to retain moisture. As a consequence, our skin becomes drier; wrinkles and sometimes spots and growths appear. For beautiful younger-looking skin, the most important thing to do is keep your skin moist.

Reducing Wrinkles

For centuries, shea butter has been used in Africa to reduce wrinkles and to keep the skin moist and healthy. In the 1900's, the French discovered shea butter and began to use this magical substance sparingly as an ingredient in expensive moisturizers. Shea butter is now finally becoming more readily available world wide.

Shea butter is a wonderful agent for revitalizing our skin cells so that they regain their moisture retention capacity. Unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction. The essential oils that can work with shea butter to restore the skin cells' moisture retention capacity include Jasmine, Lavender, Myrrh, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Ylang-Ylang.

The following Karite Gold products each contain Shea Butter and one or more of the essential oils that are most efficacious for facial wrinkles, 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 reduce wrinkles, apply a moderate amount of Karite Gold at least 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 facial wrinkles, click on the links below:

• Shea Butter
• Jasmine
• Lavender
• Myrrh
• Patchouli
• Sandalwood
• Ylang-Ylang

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 wrinkles, that shea butter has been known to help. Click here to go back to the top of this Wrinkles - What to Do page.