shea butter for hair

[doctorvkp1]

can we use the shea butter skin cream in hair masks..... One of my friend tried it out and says that the results are same as using one for hair.... I bought one.... Here are the ingredients.... Pls suggest if would be safe for my hair
Water,butyrospermium park ll(shea butter), cetearyl alcohol, petrolatum, glycerine, ceteareth-20, ethylhexyl isonanoate, stearic acid, cocao seed, mango seed butter, tocopheryl acetate, cyclopentasiloxane, octyldodecyl myristate, dimethicone, cetyl esters, mineral oil, DMDM hydantoin, sodium hydroxide, carbomer, methyl paraben, propyl paraben

[PrairieRose]

I use just plain Raw African Shea Butter. There is nothing else in it.

[Amber_Maiden]

I use just plain Raw African Shea Butter. There is nothing else in it.

I agree, I think the more pure the better.

I personally didn't like Shea Butter on my hair. Didn't turn out well.

[doctorvkp1]

should i give this one a try ???

[PrairieRose]

As sticky as shea butter is, I would don't know why it works for me. My hair is so fine, but it seems to work well. Go figure

[doctorvkp1]

thank you.... I shall try it this sunday n keep you posted with the results

[PinkyCat]

I use raw African shea butter on my ends every day. First some coconut oil, then the shea butter. Awesome stuff.

[Aredhel77]

should i give this one a try ???

How were you planning on using it? Is it a body butter sort of consistency (a thick cream?) Maybe you could add a spoonful to your conditioner and see how well it mixes and use that as a mask/deep treatment conditioner. The other option is to put a little in your hair while it's dry, leave it for a while and then shampoo/condition it out. I wouldn't slap loads on the hair and try to rinse it out if it's a heavy/greasy consistency, I'd be sparing with it. The ingredients don't look too bad to me. There's a lot of mineral oil in it which can be heavy for hair, but that isn't always a bad thing, provided you can remove it OK. There's nothing in that ingredients list that screams "NO WAY!!" to me.

So in short, experiment and see (I'm always trying things like this LOL)

[doctorvkp1]

yup.... Thanks a lot.... I was much in a confused state....

[Aredhel77]

yup.... Thanks a lot.... I was much in a confused state....

I do agree with the others that the 'pure' shea butter would probably be best - but I often concoct recipes to use up stuff and think this probably would work - providing of course, that your hair does like the ingredients