9 Ways Shea Butter Will Change Our Crepey SKIN (You're Applying It Wrong!)

Shea butter for crepey skin works a whole lot better once you stop putting it on dry, and that's only the first of nine ways Black women are using this butter wrong on their arms, necks, and hands. -- Here's How To Go From Hair Coming Out Everywhere To Long Hair Again, With 3 Things From Your Kitchen: https://www.janetmercer.cc/kitchen -- Janet learned it at a Saturday market from a woman from Burkina Faso, where women have pressed shea for close to two thousand years. You'll hear how to tell good raw shea butter from a rancid or refined jar, how to melt it and lay it on thin crepey skin without dragging it, where crepe shows up first on our skin and why we keep skipping those places, how to fix a grainy jar, and the drugstore lactic acid lotion that goes under the butter on crepey arms and legs. Janet also walks through the three bath habits that undo any crepey skin remedy, why shea is no sunscreen for Black skin, and why the eighty-four-dollar crepe cream off the television can't erase crepe any more than a fifteen-dollar pound of shea can. Honest scope, real safety notes, and the kind of doctor to see when crepey skin is more than dryness. Sources: American Academy of Dermatology. Caring for your skin in menopause: skin loses about 30 percent of its collagen in the first five years of menopause. American Academy of Dermatology. Dermatologists' top tips for relieving dry skin: five to ten minute warm baths, moisturize right after patting dry, shea butter among recommended ingredients. Gordon and Brieva, New England Journal of Medicine (2012). Unilateral dermatoheliosis in a delivery truck driver of 28 years; UVA passes through window glass. Gallagher, Dueppen, Walsh, Journal of Ethnobiology (2016). The archaeology of shea butter at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso, from about 100 CE. US FDA (January 2025). Food allergen guidance removes shea nut from the tree nut list.