Shea Butter
Oil Rubdown for
Relaxing…
Moisturize while you heal the mind
Summertime and the living is easy with Shea (cont)
A few
steps to the kitchen, dripping small amounts of water on the
carpet as I go. A few more to the microwave where I heat up
the solid shea just long enough to liquefy. Though I want it
very warm, I don’t want it so hot as to kill the natural
ingredients that I will need to work its magic on my body, on
my skin.
Once my shea is melted, its
back to the still steamy rest-room-turned-spa where I slowly
begin to rub down from head to toe, from toe to head, then
back again. I pay special attention to the feet, which yelled
at me earlier in the week for not—how did they say it “taking
better care”.
Since this is my time and I
have all night, I don’t use the towel to dry off. Instead I
let this semi-precious African shea blend in directly with
the beads of water shimmering on my skin, skin so moist and
elastic and ready for an evening of nothing
but…but…pampering.
If Teddy were here, he would
surely be singing, “Rub me down in some hot oils baby…Show me
how…” You know the rest.
But instead, Ms Horn is winding
down and belching out “The man you were meant so much to me…”
(Accent on the word “meant”.
Ah…relationships.)
Rituals
My
weekly shea-skins ritual now concluded; the fantasy break vanished
-- though the relaxed thoughts now more empowered to make their way
to the surface of my consciousness. The tenseness in my neck
vanished too, having received a heavenly massage in the rub down
phase. Tonight it was the pure unscented shea butter. Next week I
will order some scented mango shea to spice it up even
more.
Already I am beginning to replay the
bath scene in my mind.
Tomorrow
morning I will ready for devotions, church or
whatever…
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Editor’s Note: Now you
can see why I call my newsletter Shea
Skins.
Can you begin to see how turning your skin into a "shea
skin" is as easy as indulging yourself in a weekly regimen of
rubbing your body down in “some burning hot
oils”?
Shea is relaxing. Shea
is refreshing. Shea is invigorating. It’s the reason you need
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* For your shea butter weekly bath
and skin moisturizing ritual, I do recommend you use 100% pure shea. For other non
medicinal uses, as long as you have at least 15% shea in the
products, it should work out fine.
Resources
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