Mango Butter: Natural Care for Dry Skin

Its fruity smell and very soft texture have allowed mango butter to become one of the little darlings of the cosmetics world. A real concentrate of benefits for the body and hair, it fully deserves a pride of place on your bathroom shelves.

But let’s start with a little presentation of the fruit.

What is mango butter?

Its properties

Originally from India, the mango tree produces a very popular fruit rich in vitamin C. Mango butter is obtained by mechanical pressing of the kernel from the kernel. Although it comes in a thick form (in a pot), it nevertheless remains tender and spreads easily. Mango butter is rich in oleic acid, phytosterols and polyphenols. These components give it protective, emollient, antioxidant and softening properties.

Nourishing, emollient and softening

The composition rich in fatty acids gives mango butter a powerful nutritional power for the skin and hair and also helps maintain their hydration. The skin and hair fiber are smoothed, satiny, softened, repaired and luminous.

Anti-wrinkle and firming

With its richness in essential fatty acids and antioxidants, mango butter helps protect the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals and therefore fights against premature skin aging. Containing squalene and antioxidants, it helps maintain optimal concentration and quality of skin collagen and has firming power. It then helps to hide fine lines and skin folds, smooth the skin, maintain its elasticity, bounce and resistance.

Protective, soothing and healing

Mango butter protects and soothes the skin and hair, particularly against external aggressions such as the sun, cold, sea salt, swimming pool chlorine, wind, pollution… Its action helps to restore the barrier lipid of the skin, protecting it before and soothing it after these external aggressions. In the same way, the hair is protected, nourished and shiny, its scales are sheathed and strengthened. Mango butter also prevents split ends.

Mango butter: for what type of skin?

Highly nourishing, the use of mango butter is particularly indicated for normal, dry, very dry or mature skin. Pure or integrated into a homemade treatment, mango butter can be used in several different ways, depending on the needs of your skin. With its firming action, it is particularly suitable for making body balms with strong moisturizing power and it will leave your skin smooth and satiny. This ancestral ingredient is also a good ingredient for sun or after-sun care because of its protective capabilities.

Mango butter works wonderfully in synergy with vegetable oils to target specific problems:

• Dry skin – avocado oil, wheat germ oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil…

• Mature skin – borage oil, evening primrose oil, argan oil, prickly pear oil, rosehip oil, etc.

• For sagging skin – macadamia oil, watermelon vegetable oil, etc.