From the core of the tropical fruit known for its soft and sweet flesh, mango butter is a real beauty essential. Its composition rich in fatty acids and antioxidants gives it emollient, moisturizing, protective, softening, anti-wrinkle and firming powers.

It is effective both on dry, dehydrated, mature or sagging skin as well as on dry, damaged, split ends, frizzy or long hair. It is applied directly to the skin of the face, body, lips and hair, but can also be easily added to home care emulsions.

Mango butter has many beauty benefits, both for the skin and for the hair. It has the following properties.

Nourishing, emollient and softening

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

Protective, soothing and healing

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

Anti-wrinkle and firming

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

Native to India and Burma, the mango tree (Mangifera indica) is a tropical tree of the Anacardiaceae family, cultivated mainly for its oval fruits. Beyond its sweet, juicy flesh rich in vitamin C, mango contains a flat core with a fleshy almond. Once extracted, this almond will be pressed mechanically to obtain a butter with a unique composition and feel.

In fact, mango butter, once filtered, is essentially composed of essential fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic acid), phytosterols, polyphenols, squalene and oleic alcohol.

Mango butter is rich and melting, pale yellow in color, solid at room temperature and liquid above 30 ° C. It has excellent oxidation stability and gives off a sweet, vegetal odor.

Using mango butter

Mango butter can be applied directly to the skin of the face, body, lips or hair. Apply the butter in the palm of your hand to soften and soften it, then place it on the area to be treated by massaging to make it penetrate. Insist on the driest areas such as elbows, knees or heels.

It can also be incorporated in the oily phase in emulsions or homemade preparations, such as:

• hair or face mask;
• shampoo or conditioner;
• moisturizing face or body balm;
• massage balm;
• firming care;
• conditioner cream;
• sun or after-sun care;
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• making soaps, up to about 5%.

For dry or frizzy hair, apply the mango butter strands by strands, insisting on the ends, comb to distribute evenly then leave on for at least an hour, or even overnight.

It can also be applied in the morning in very small amounts on the ends or the lengths to protect them all day long.

Contraindications of mango butter

Mango butter knows no contraindication, except in case of allergy. However, its very rich composition can quickly re-grease certain types of hair if it is applied as a mask too frequently.

It is important to choose a cold extracted mango butter (first cold pressing) so that it has retained its active ingredients as much as possible.

It is also important to choose it organic, made from untreated and 100% natural mangoes. This mention must appear in order to avoid the addition of solvents, mineral oils or chemical preservatives.

Mango butter can be bought in organic stores, pharmacies or on the Internet, paying attention to the origin and composition. When it is pure, it costs on average less than 40 € per kilo.

It can be stored in a dry place, away from light and heat.

Pure mango butter can be combined with many other wonders of nature to create synergies with targeted properties.

Here are some examples of synergies:

• care for dry skin: vegetable oil of calendula, avocado, sweet almond;
• care for mature skin: vegetable oil of rosehip, argan or borage, essential oil of cistus, rose or geranium, honey;
• firming treatment: daisy oil, macadamia oil, grapefruit essential oil;
• care for dry hair, split ends: shea or cocoa butter, coconut oil, castor oil, Ylang-Ylang essential oil;
• lip care: beeswax, sweet almond oil, calendula, cocoa or shea butter.