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Is our Shea Butter Refined?

Brigid said;
"I would just like to say how impressed I am with your Balm Balm Facial Moisturiser with Rose Geranium Oil, and how effectively it's moisturised my face, especially as a night cream. I really like the natural fragrance and would recommend to others, especially for the reasonable price of a natural product. However I am recently become aware of the importance of how natural ingredients are sourced and extracted, and although I know you are Soil Association Approved which is great I wondered about how some of the oils are extracted such as the Shea Butter , Jojoba, Sunflower Oil etc. I buy unrefined Shea Butter fairly traded from Ghana and noticed the smell and colour is very different to refined Shea Butter which was white and odourless, and also felt more like vaseline when put on the skin, as opposed to the more creamy unrefined one.

I would be very grateful if you could give me some more information on the oils used in the product, and it would help to add to my confidence in the product, which already seems to have worked really well for me!

So to her Question;



Q: "I read that some Shea Butter is refined to take the colour and smell but still retains the majority of it's important nutrients, so I wondered if the one used in Balm Balm is refined but not over refined using solvents?"

A: Our Shea Butter is refined but without the use of any chemicals what so ever. You can be confident that no chemicals are allowed in any process that ingredients certified by the Soil Association go through and every ingredient we use at Balm Balm is Soil Association approved.

Regarding heat extraction - all our vegetables oils - Jojoba, Sunflower etc.are cold pressed so no heat is used in the process of extraction at all.


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