I was given the chance to review this shea butter, which is perfect because I have been wanting to make my own soaps and lotions!

 

Funny how things just work out that way sometimes!

 

From what I can gather from the description, this is the King of all Shea Butter! Here is a little tidbit about the brand:

• 16 oz (1lb) of Pure Organic Unrefined Raw Shea Butter from Beauty By Shea is made with extra care to ensure you receive the purest Raw Shea Butter. Beauty By Shea Organic Shea Butter is double filtered, first in Ghana, and then at our US Lab where it is manufactured into our 1lb bricks, packaged into our heat sealed bags, and sent straight to Amazon thereby preserving the natural richness, and purity of the shea butter for our customers.

Beauty By Shea 100% Ivory Organic Raw, Unrefined Shea Butter is imported directly from Ghana, and is 100% pure and natural, nothing else added!
Naturally rich in essential vitamins for beautiful skin, Beauty By Shea Organic Shea Butter will nourish your skin with Vitamins A, E, F & K. Use this Beauty By Shea Organic Raw Shea Butter daily and often for beautiful, moisturized, luminous skin.
Raw Organic Unrefined Shea Butter is perfect for topical use on skin and hair, and the perfect essential ingredient for homemade lotions, soaps, conditioners and more!

 

And that is exactly how I intend to use it!

When it first arrived, I opened it up and smoothed some onto my dry skin. It instantly felt better. This stuff is like magic butter-it's in all the most moisturizing of lip butters, lotions, and soaps and there is nothing better than saving a few dollars to make your own, am I right?

I already have coconut butter, olive oil, and fragrance (thank you Scentsy!) on hand to start with my first recipe-which is the ultimate chapstick...the only thing that will moisturize the dryest of lips. Even better-the same ingredients are used in my ultimate lotion recipe which is the best for chapped, dehydrated skin-and works wonders to soothe the itch of eczema.

Oh and the best part? I have been commissioned to host a giveaway for one of my readers to win their very own package of Beauty by Shea 100% Pure and Natural Shea Butter of their very own!

 

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I've often thought about blogging. Why do people devote so much time to these posts? Who has the energy to type all their thoughts out here for the world to see? Maybe I'll never know about them, but I do know this.

Since I was in high school, and we were first allowed to browse on the "net", I would sit at the screen in Computer Class and wonder what to look up. The web seemed an endless supply of information and links, but what to do with all that?

So, I searched "free". Lots of crap came up, trials and information and whatnot. But I wondered, could there really be something you could get for nothing? I mean, this vast expanse could surely have that possibility, right? I came across a site called www. its-all-free. com. This was back in the day when those initial repetitive dubs were necessary, and I couldn't even tell you if it exists today but it was jackpot back then. A forum full of completely free samples, for filling out a simple form. I had to create an email address to receive their products, but who cared? Let them fill that inbox up! As long as they filled my mailbox too!  I bet over the years I've gotten a million emails, no exaggeration. I'm sitting on almost 50k now because I hadn't yet discovered Unroll.Me. I have a silly, girl crush email address that has haunted me for over a decade but at what cost? I felt like a genius, a pioneer of my time. Who knew so many companies were just giving their stuff away? I collected hygiene products, a certificate for a full size TreSemme product, a free carton of cigarettes, full size Olay eye cream, food, the possibilities were endless.

In all these discoveries, I tried to forward the information, or share the link with someone I thought would be interested. Was it spamming? Maybe. But surely they would see what a gift I had given! I was blessing them with my treasured finds. Maybe they, too, want drawers full of mini products that may one day come in handy on vacations and camping trips. Can you ever have enough razors?

In wondering for the last few years why people blog, I've come up with many plausible excuses. Not that any of those should or did impact why I ultimately chose to do it; but I can say, for me, I'm doing it to pay it forward. I see freebies, I find deals, I save money. Some people don't know how to do that, or don't have the time.  So even if you aren't interested, there's a good possibility that someone in your life goes gaga over getting this little treats in the mail and you can share with them. They can come find me though. I'm sure they don't want the spamming any more than my eye-rolling sisters. :)

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