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Skin & Hair Butters: Mango Butter

All solid oils (butters) are especially good for use in the winter season - due to their nutritional and protective properties, but mango oil can be called the most versatile in terms of seasonality, because it is a good natural UV protection, which means it is excellent for winters, and for sunny summers, and for transitional seasons with their characteristic loss of moisture in the skin. After all, among other things, mango oil perfectly retains moisture and can be used as a moisturizer. In the end, mango butter, which is usually overshadowed by the more popular butters of shea, cocoa and coconut, turns out to be a jack of all trades and definitely deserves a place on your cosmetics shelf. 

Mango Butter

Mango oil is obtained from the seeds of the fruit, and knowing this, it is easy to imagine that this butter should be as fragrant as the pulp of a mango, but in fact, the oil looks as neutral as possible: light - from white to light cream - and practically odorless. Like any butter, mango butter remains firm at room temperature; it is slightly more grainy than, for example, shea, but generally looks like a typical representative of solid and semi-solid oils. Mango oil begins to soften and melt already on the skin: if you take a little butter and hold it in your palms, the oil will melt and will be ready to be applied or mixed with other ingredients. If you want an even thinner consistency of mango butter (for example, when applied to hair), you can dip the jar of the butter in hot water for a few minutes.

The variety of cosmetic properties attributed to mango oil is explained by the richness of its composition: in addition to valuable unsaturated acids, it contains tocopherols and phytosterols, folic acid, and a wide range of vitamins and minerals.

Formally, mango oil can be used literally at every step: rubbed with it instead of body cream a couple of times a week, smear it on dry heels, prepare masks based on this butter, rub into your nails, apply to the ends of your hair at night, and so on, but we will consider those uses in which mango oil is particularly effective. 

Moisturizes dehydrated, flaky skin.

It's simple: after a shower, bath or even a bath, without wiping off, apply mango oil directly to wet skin, gently massaging. Since it takes time to melt, you can preheat it in hot water or, if you plan to massage your body well, warm each portion of the oil in your palms. This requires a little oil: about one teaspoon is enough for the whole body; make sure that the skin does not dry out before applying the butter. The fact is that mango oil primarily retains moisture well, so it is important that the butter does not cover dry, dry skin with its oily film. Mango oil will not be absorbed instantly, please be patient, but after five to seven minutes the skin will not look greasy, but soft velvety. It should be applied 1-3 times a week. 

UV protection.

In the case of ultraviolet light, mango oil can act in two forms at once. Firstly, as protection: you apply this butter to your face and body half an hour before going into the scorching rays of the sun - and your skin receives natural UV protection with an SPF of about 10-15. Secondly, as a restoration of the skin after sunburn: since mango oil is excellent for dehydrated, dry and irritated skin, its application after sunburn will restore the skin softness, elasticity and velvety.


Improvement, nutrition, lightening of the skin of the face.

Mango oil has a complex effect: at the same time it nourishes, improves skin condition, softens, improves the hydrolipid balance, and also slightly brightens and evens out skin tone, making age spots and other visual defects less noticeable. How to use mango butter for facial skin care? The easiest option: apply the oil to wet face skin 2 times a week, keep it for half an hour, then blot it with a napkin, and in general, on this day, take care of your skin as usual. That is, if you applied the mask at 19-20 pm, then before going to bed, cleanse your skin and apply your usual evening cream. Even easier, add a little (a lump on the tip of your index finger) mango oil to a serving of your regular face cream or mask. You can also make masks based on mango oil: mix it with other oils or bases, essential oils, clay, etc. 

Oil mask for irritated skin

  • Mango oil
  • Jojoba oil
  • Tea tree essential oil

Mix 1/2 teaspoon of mango oil and the same amount of jojoba oil, add 3 drops of tea tree oil. Apply the mixture to cleansed skin, hold for 25-45 minutes, remove the excess with a napkin, wash with ubtan a little later or wipe the skin with a cotton pad moistened with hydrolat (chamomile, lavender, cornflower).

Purifying mask for dry skin

  • White clay
  • Mango oil
  • Avocado oil
  • Geranium essential oil

Moisten 1 teaspoon of clay to the consistency of gruel, add 0.5 teaspoons of mango oil and avocado oil, add 2 drops of geranium essential oil - and mix everything thoroughly. Apply the resulting mask to cleansed skin and keep it on for at least 30 minutes. Rinse off with warm water, moisturize your skin with hydrolate, then apply your regular face cream later. 

Hair restoration.

Mango Butter is good for complex improvement of hair condition: this oil has a beneficial effect on hair from roots to ends, strengthens them, restores brittle, damaged, dry hair. For practical use, it is best to mix mango butter with liquid vegetable oils because it is too viscous on its own and will not distribute well. Ideal "partners" for such a case are burdock oil and jojoba oil. Mix equal proportions of mango oil with one of these oils and apply to hair from scalp and full length; then wrap your head with a towel and hold the mask for at least an hour. Then wash it off with water and natural shampoo. Done! This mask should be done about 2 times a week. Hair will become shinier, softer and easier to comb.

To use mango oil, you can show imagination and ingenuity: this butter is rubbed into the nail plates at night to strengthen nails, massaged dry heels with it, applied after shaving (on wet skin), added to liquid body milk - and this is not a complete list. options for its application.

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