0 Authentic African Shea Butter, Is Your Shea Butter Authentic?

I love shea butter (or what I thought was shea butter). I use it on my hair daily and guess what? What I was using was not African shea butter! Nope!! I don't really know what I am using as it just says shea butter but, it doesn't match what I was reading about African shea butter. I am so through with companies stealing and lying...I don't have money to waste!!

Well, I found out about REAL African shea butter from a youtube video:



Another video (fast forward to 5 mins.)

Website (www.sheabutterr.com)has pictures and more info about how to spot fake shea butter and what real shea butter should look and feel like.

From Butters and Bars

"Each of the above (I posted them below) pictures are different shades of fresh, creamy unrefined (raw) shea butter as all natural products vary, so does shea butter. Unrefined shea butter will not be bright yellow unless a root dye extract has been added to it, COLOR IS NOT AN INDICATOR OF AGE WE DO NOT SELL BRIGHT YELLOW SHEA BUTTER
Only butters as shown above in their natural states without additives. Color of your
butter will range in color based on the harvest time of the shea nuts, but our butter is always fresh straight from the cooperative"

Pictures of real African shea butter, see how it's nice and smooth and creamy?

Looks like actual butter!!

Looks like icecream doesn't it? Yummy!!

The "shea butter" I was getting is deep yellow and very grainy. It is also greasy/oily. I will not be purchasing shea butter from RA Cosmetics again. I don't know what this "butter" is exactly, it could be shea, it could be palm oil, heck I don't know... It did give me some nice twist-outs and whatnot tho...

I will be ordering some REAL shea butter soon and I will let ya'll know how it turns out!