Shea butter is an ideal beauty ingredient which has been used for centuries by women in sub saharan africa to nourish and protect their skin and hair loccitane works directly with womens shea processing collectives in western africa supporting economic recovery and a heritage of natural harvesting methods enriched with fair trade shea butter 10 this moisturising certified organic shea lip balm helps to nourish repair and protect dry and chapped lips leaving them soft and supple to use