Raw Shea Butter - For Dry, Rough Skin on Body & Hair - Unrefined, 1 Ingredient - 4 oz (113g) Vegan & Cruelty Free

Skin gets drier as you get older, and it happens fastest in the places that were already working hardest.

Heels, elbows, knees, knuckles and shins carry thicker, tougher skin and far fewer of the oil glands that keep the rest of you comfortable. Add central heating, hot showers, hand-washing and one more winter, and by February those areas look grey and papery while everything else looks fine. And no, you are not imagining that the lotion you have used for years stopped being enough.

This is where a raw butter does something a lotion cannot:

• Stays where you put it – A lotion is mostly water and it is gone within the hour. Shea butter is solid at room temperature and holds on the surface, which is why it is still there at six in the morning.
• Softens rough patches – The fatty acids in shea are what give it that cushioning feel, and cushioning is what dry, rough-looking skin responds to first.
• Very little to react to – One ingredient, no added fragrance, no colour and no preservative system, which is why it suits dry, sensitive skin.
• Works on hair as well – The same butter conditions dry ends and the last inch of a ponytail, so it is not only a body product.

Left alone, those areas do not simply stay rough. They start deciding how your skin looks to you in the mirror.

Raw Shea Butter from VERA is 4 oz (113 g) of unrefined shea butter and nothing else. Apply a thin layer wherever your skin or hair needs it, twice a day.

• Rough areas that feel softer to the touch instead of looking dry and grey
• One jar handling heels, elbows, hands, cuticles and hair ends
• Skin that is still comfortable in the morning rather than by the hour

🫙 The first scoop is the strange one

Raw shea is firm in the jar, more so in a cold bathroom, and everybody's first thought is that it will be far too heavy. It changes the second it meets skin temperature and goes on as an oil rather than a paste. What you scoop is not what you wear.

👃 The smell is the butter, not a fragrance

Unrefined shea has a faint nutty, slightly smoky smell of its own, because nothing has been added to cover it and nothing has been bleached out. It settles within a few minutes and it is not on your clothes an hour later.

⏳ Rough skin takes longer than dry skin

Where skin is only dry, it looks better the same evening. Where it has been hard and rough for months, that is thicker skin sitting on top, and it softens over a couple of weeks of regular use rather than overnight. Most people who give up on a butter give up in week one.

❄️ It behaves differently in winter and summer

Cold makes it firm and warmth makes it soft, sometimes almost pourable in August. Both are the same butter doing the same thing. Nothing has gone wrong and nothing has separated.

✨ Tiny grains are normal in a raw butter

Real unrefined shea can set with fine grains in it if it has been warm and then cooled again. They melt the moment they touch your skin and they change nothing about how it works. A butter that is perfectly smooth every time has usually been refined to get that way.

Shea butter works on the surface of your skin. It softens how dry, rough areas look and feel, it keeps them comfortable for hours rather than minutes, and it does the same job on dry hair ends. That is a real result and it is the one this jar is built for.

What it does not do is reach past the surface. The deeper layers of your skin are not where a butter works, and any body product that tells you otherwise is selling you something a butter cannot deliver.

You will also see shea butter sold on a vitamin content. This label declares one ingredient and no amounts, so there is no number here for us to print, and we are not going to borrow one from somewhere else.

If an area is painful, weeping, spreading or simply not settling, that is a conversation with your GP or a dermatologist rather than a jar. VERA would far rather you got it looked at than kept moisturising it and waiting.

Patch test before you start: a small amount on the inside of your forearm, left for 24 hours. Keep it away from your eyes, and if your skin reacts, stop using it.

This was made for the woman whose body lotion is fine everywhere except the four places that actually bother her.

It's especially for you if:

• Your heels and elbows have got rougher over the last few years and you have quietly started dressing around them
• You own a drawer of body lotions and not one of them is still working by lunchtime
• You want to read a whole ingredient list without looking a single word up
• You would rather own one jar that does four jobs than four bottles that each do one
• Your hair ends have been drier since you started colouring it and nothing on the shelf has helped

One ingredient: unrefined shea butter. 4 oz (113 g). No water, no colour, no added fragrance. Vegan and cruelty-free.

Chances are, this is the jar you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you want something light that vanishes in seconds. This is a rich butter and it is meant to be. If you have a tree nut allergy, check with your doctor before you use it, and if your skin reacts, stop.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.