Mango butter: properties and application for face and hair. School of natural cosmetics. Lesson 24
Mango butter belongs to butters (solid bases at room temperature), has a pale yellow color, neutral taste, practically has no smell.
Mango butter is an excellent moisturizing, nourishing, and softening component in facial care products suitable for any skin type. Helps to preserve youth and beauty.
Benefits of mango butter:
It has the ability to retain moisture, intensively moisturize, and soften the stratum corneum with dryness and peeling of the skin of the face.
Nourishes the skin and increases its elasticity.
In complex formulations, it is suitable for combating age-related manifestations: age spots, dull complexion, and wrinkles.
Narrows pores, and eliminates peeling (in complex formulations). Makes the skin velvety and gives a healthy color to the skin.
It has excellent antioxidant properties and protects against the harmful effects of the environment and UV radiation.
Melts easily from contact with the skin, and absorbs quickly, leaving no greasy film and stickiness.
Suitable for sensitive skin, irreplaceable in baby skin products.
It can be used as a protective agent against frost, wind, and the drying effects of sunlight. Helps to maintain the elasticity of blood vessels.
It is used as an emulsion thickener.
It can replace shaving cream, soothe the skin after shaving, and relieve irritation.
Mango butter shows itself well in lip products: softens, increases hydration, restores elasticity, heals cracks on the lips and in the corners of the mouth, and can be used against the herpes virus (as a carrier of active essential oils).
In lip balms, it gives good absorbency to a mixture of liquid oils and wax. As a lip balm, it can be used in its pure form.
In lip products, mango is well combined with jojoba, castor oil, almond, sea buckthorn (CO2 extract), sarangi, apricot kernel, and amaranth.
Lip balm
The balm softens the chapped skin of the lips well, moisturizes, and gives them elasticity.
Recipe for 17.63oz:
Ingredients:
Beeswax 0.19oz( 5.6 g)
Jojoba oil 0.31oz(9.0 g)
Mango butter 0.21oz (6.0 g)
Cocoa butter 0.18oz (5.5 g)
Virola essential oil 4 drops
Lavender essential oil 2 drops
Rosewood essential oil 2 drops
CO2-amaranth extract 4 drops
Instruction:
Melt the wax and oils in a water bath.
Add essential oils and CO2 extract.
Mix everything thoroughly. Pour into containers.
For this volume, you will need about 5 lipsticks.
Store in the refrigerator for up to 6 months.
For body skin
Mango butter has a soft, creamy consistency and is quite capable of replacing cream for a short time. It will soften rough areas of the skin of the legs and hands, and create a temporary occlusive film in order to give the skin the opportunity to restore the hydrolipidic mantle to prevent moisture loss.
Mango butter has excellent regenerating, anti-inflammatory and regenerating properties. The following healthy properties:
Restores damaged skin with psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, and sunburn.
Heals wounds, cracks, and scars.
Prevents the appearance of stretch marks during pregnancy, increasing the elasticity of tissues (in complex products).
Eliminates the effects of frostbite and weathering, prolonged contact with earth, water, and detergents, restoring the lipid barrier of the skin.
Protects the skin from dehydration after sunburn (preferably as part of moisturizers).
Softens and smoothes hard, dry, and rough skin of hands and feet.
Reduces itching from insect bites.
Shaving products improve the sliding and healing of cuts.
In massage products, it is valued for its emollient and sliding properties, as well as for its ability to gradually absorb into the skin. Mango massage will relieve muscle pain, tension, and fatigue.
In its pure form, it can replace the cream after sunbathing, from exposure to low temperatures and wind.
In mango body products, almonds, broccoli, hemp, argan, macadamia, sesame, and apricot will complement.
Body scrub
The scrub removes dirt, sebum, and dead cells of the epidermis, and stimulates blood circulation. When choosing a body scrub, the type of skin should be taken into account. Not only the composition of the cosmetic preparation used depends on the type of skin, but also the intensity of the cleansing procedure.
Recipe for 3.53oz:
Ingredients:
Mango butter 1.76oz
Apricot kernel oil 1 tablespoon
Macadamia nut oil 1 tablespoon
Polysorbate 1/2 tablespoon
CO2-rosemary extract 3 drops
Sea salt 1.2 teaspoons
Juniper essential oil (berries) 10 drops
Geranium essential oil 8 drops
Himalayan Cedar Essential Oil 15 drops
Grapefruit essential oil 12 drops
Instruction:
Having combined all the ingredients, the mixture is thoroughly stirred to a puree-like state.
Method of application:
Apply the scrub to wet skin.
Massage the skin of the body for a few minutes, and rinse.
Do not use it with sensitive, inflamed skin.
Do not use grapefruit essential oil obtained by pressing before going outside during the period of active sunlight!
Invigorating cosmetic preparations not only remove impurities from the skin but also refresh, giving the body a feeling of lightness.
Vitamins and valuable trace elements included in energy production will provide the skin with additional nutrition.
Such peeling improves blood supply, energizing for a long time, so it is advisable not to use it before going to bed.
Contraindications
Contraindications to the use of mango butter can only be individual intolerance in the form of rash, edema, or comedogenicity. In the minimum percentage and the selected oil phase, comedogenicity, as a rule, is not noted.
It is suitable for infants, pregnant and lactating children.
To detect an allergic reaction, perform a test:
apply a little mango to the crook of the elbow.
Storage Features
Mango butter is a fairly stable product, it can be stored at room temperature without being exposed to high temperatures for a long time, in a tightly closed package away from light sources. However, for long-term storage, we still recommend using a refrigerator.
With proper storage, the shelf life is up to 2 years.