African Shea Oil is used therapeutically for the following skin conditions: 1. Dry Skin - Shea Oil helps prevent ashy skin, chapping, chafing, rashes, psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, skin cracks, and tough or rough skin (especially feet and elbows). 2. Wrinkles - It helps aging soft skin tissue to firm up. Rejuvenates skin cells and cleans pores. Can be used on all skin types. 3. Skin Irritations - Minor skin irritations including: allergies, insect bites, frostbites, sunburns, burns, and small skin wounds all respond positively to Shea Oil treatment. 4. Dry Hair and Scalp - Apply to hair and scalp to add moisture to dry, brittle hair; to prevent weak hair from breaking, fading or thinning out; to prevent dandruff; and revitalize split ends. Shea Oil will protect hair from the damaging rays of the sun, hair dryers, perms and dyes 5. Arthritis and Rheumatism - Shea Oil is deeply penetrating and heating to soothe painful joints and aching muscles. 6. Sun protection - Shea Oil can be used as a sunscreen. 7. Sensitive Skin - For infants or people with highly sensitive skin, Shea Oil is a natural alternative. The chemical composition of Shea Oil is close to vernix, the substance found on newborns at birth. 8. Stretch Marks - Shea Oil is excellent for the prevention and treatment of stretch marks and other kinds of scar tissue. It is also good for the healing of the sore and cracked nipples of nursing mothers. 9. Massage - African Shea oil is the ultimate in skin nourishment has the best "slide" and consistency for massage therapy. What makes our Shea Oil different? Only high quality, unrefined Shea Oil can offer the healing benefits mentioned above. Once Shea Oil is aged or loses its natural integrity through high heat refinement, many of these wonderful benefits are lost. Although moisturizing, Shea Oil that has been over processed, bleached and deodorized, is ineffective in healing most skin conditions. That is why we use only cold pressed, unrefined Shea Oil.