Last week in my Aveeno Intensive Relief Hand Cream Review, 
I was challenged to try Jason's Shea Nut Butter and I am ready to share my Shea Nut Butter experience after a week's worth of use.
When you crack open a jar of Jason's Shea Nut Butter, you are greeted with a texture and an aroma you would not expect.
The texture of the butter is hard and granular and the smell is of coconuts.
I was challenged to try Jason's Shea Nut Butter and I am ready to share my Shea Nut Butter experience after a week's worth of use. When you crack open a jar of Jason's Shea Nut Butter, you are greeted with a texture and an aroma you would not expect.
The texture of the butter is hard and granular and the smell is of coconuts.
You quickly wonder how Jason's can sell 1.75oz for $8.00 a jar when the
stuff is so hard to get 
out of the jar!
The Shea Nut Butter scent is strong and it might bother your nose and eyes a bit if you aren't careful.
One trick when using this sort of Shea Nut Butter is to get it in a liquid state from a granular state and the fastest way to get the Shea Nut Butter into a liquid state is to pick out some of the granular paste, put it in the palm of your hand and rub your other palm into it with great friction.
The end result will be liquid Shea Nut Butter!
Then rub in that greasy mess until it soaks into your hands. I found it can take up to ten minutes for the Shea Nut Butter to blend into your hands -- but the greasy feel stays with you -- the strong, lingering, scent also may be too much for use in a public place where others with allergies might convene.
Shea Nut Butter is a fascinating product and I am delighted I was able to give it a test and a try. I will, however, be moving back to my favorite Aveeno Hand Cream because it has no scent and it instantly moisturizes as it greaselessly fades into your thirsty hands.
out of the jar! The Shea Nut Butter scent is strong and it might bother your nose and eyes a bit if you aren't careful.
One trick when using this sort of Shea Nut Butter is to get it in a liquid state from a granular state and the fastest way to get the Shea Nut Butter into a liquid state is to pick out some of the granular paste, put it in the palm of your hand and rub your other palm into it with great friction.
The end result will be liquid Shea Nut Butter!
Then rub in that greasy mess until it soaks into your hands. I found it can take up to ten minutes for the Shea Nut Butter to blend into your hands -- but the greasy feel stays with you -- the strong, lingering, scent also may be too much for use in a public place where others with allergies might convene.
Shea Nut Butter is a fascinating product and I am delighted I was able to give it a test and a try. I will, however, be moving back to my favorite Aveeno Hand Cream because it has no scent and it instantly moisturizes as it greaselessly fades into your thirsty hands.
David- i am convinced that there might be heavy side effects to Shea But Butter. i know a guy who used it and ended up taking photographs of shadows in which faces and figures appeared who supposedly looked like friends, relatives, and other assorted imagery from his unconscious mind. He bacame convinced that this imagery was proving the lack of separation between his consciousness and the environment; that he was dreaming in the day in a similar manner to night. This was all a "sacred" gift to end Descartian duality as the basic paradigm, and replace it with unified solipsistic David Bohmian hologramatic quantumesque views (in which the universe was embedded in each particle and projected the universe) which would end war and lead to heaven on earth.
i can only hope you didn't use to much of the stuff, and that the above mentioned side effects didn't happen to you. Please view any negative aspects you found only minor compared to my friend. BLOL (Beyond LOL).
Hi fred --
Now I understand the means of your madness!
:mrgreen:
I was thinking of trying this but if it has a bad smell I better not.
Hi Anne!
The smell isn't bad. It is just strong. It smells like coconuts or a tropical sun lotion. A lot of people probably find the scent attracting.
The smell sounds like an issue for me. I guess that's just the natural scent? Or are they adding to it?
I understand your concern, Anne. I don't know if scent is added to the Shea Nut butter or not. You can have my jar if you want to try it out!
:grin:
You can keep your crazy nut butter. Maybe you can have a contest and give it away?
Oh, no! Not another contest!
:mrgreen: :!:
Oh, my!
Here's the American Shea Butter Institute:
http://www.sheainstitute.com/21reasons.html
Ha!
Here's the Google return for "shea butter bad smell" --
http://www.google.com/search?q=shea+butter+bad+smell
-- so we are not alone in our disdain for the stinkiness!
David- i'm now convnced that Nietzsche and Dali both must have used Jasons shea nut butter, which caused both of their insanities. This product, being orgaic, seems better from what i've read.http://www.purelyshea.com/benefits.html
i imagine it would smell though, although i've read the smell soon disappears. One thing, having no chemicals it should retain it's lubricating properties longer than chemical lotions. Another plus is it's lower toxicity when compared to chemical lotions and creams. One is what one eats, and what one puts on ones hands.
Now you tell me!
:grin:
I'm insane enough, fred, so I don't need any nut butter helping me get there!
:mrgreen:
David- The word "nut" in the title should have been the tip off. Plus who you got this tip from in the first place. David Bohm blamed eating large quantities of sugar for making his legs legs go numb, but i now suspect this might have been cause by shea nut butter. The more i think about it the more it seems all my major influences may have been victums of this butter. When 5 out of 6 major jazz critics said Coltrane had gone "insane," when he started playing "free music," they made no mention of his use of the butter, but now i suspect he too used it. (maybe it just made his fingers slide off the keys). i only wish i had thought this all the way through, before i so blithely recomended it.
Hi fred --
Yeah! And the Mets play in Shea stadium so I should've known anything with "Shea" in the title was bound to tempt sanity!
Maybe I'll drop a few Shea Nut Butter granules in my eyes. That would certainly be a fitting act for tomorrow's blog topic!
:grin:
David- How many hand lubricants can you cook in? It would have been called "Hea nut butter, but the macho world leaders added the "S" to degrade the whole femanine principle ands make it easier to base society on war. If guys used more shea nut butter, maybe there fingers would slip off the triggers and war would end. There might be something good about the stuff after all.
I agree, fred. We should create the "Shea Nut Butter Society" and the only thing we'll do all day is mold robes out of Shea Nut Butter, wear them until they melt and then wait for them to congeal again.
David- Reminiscent of that great shea butter user Salvador Dali. His use of this elixir is what must have led to the famous melting clocks. i can now see how this esoteric butter is the hidden key we have been looking for. Yes- the "Shea Nut Butter Society," to transcend war/words and all our previously mundane ideas. At last we finally found a point we seem to agree on. i knew the democratic victory would lead to something big. i had no idea it was shea butter. Only goes to show what a subtle thing this nut butter thing is. What "nothing" was to eastern philosophy and Seinfeld, shea nut butter will be to the world.
fred --
Are we falsely worshiping Shea Nut Butter?
Can Shea Nut Butter bet its own God?
Does Shea Nut Butter have the power to imprison through its power?
What do we do if we later discover Rumsfeld based his entire Iraq strategy on the same Shea Nut Butter Society idea we are forming?
David- i am finally stumped with the depth and complexity of your questions. These must be what Chales Ives was referring to with that most slippery sounding "The Unanswered Question." i had a hunch all along that he was a shea nut butter man, genius that he was. As far as the Rummy's-field-man, his total lack of genius, and that lined and creased face leaves no doubt to any but the most unperceptive that he had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with shea nut butter in any way, either in personel use, or as a means of replacing oil with this sacred butter, or anything to do with his stategy in Iraq. The German War crimes charges against him will only find he was GUILTY of all charges, except he will skate on all nut butter charges, as even i believe in this one case, he was totally out of the nut butter loop.
fred --
I am relieved to learn it is impossible for Rummy to be a Shea Nut Butter Nut with us.
We will move onward -- and buy Shea Nut Butter Futures -- and tax those who choose to compete with us in the "Soothing Oils Arena" and that includes Crude and Olive and Peppermint.
We will make Shea Nut Butter safe for democracy if we don't run out of the stuff first!
David- The beauty of shea nut butter is it's is a renewable resource, unlike petro-chemical oil. Diesel's burning the stuff would polute less, and would make the air greasy enough so that we wouldn't have to waste it on hand cream. Why has everyone bailed on this, what has become a dialog? i thought you other guys were serious about essential things like this. This is why the democrats got in power- So we could talk about shea nut butter. This is why Rummy is being tried and hopefully convicted. He was on the side of big oil, to the point of 8 of 10 largest companies were big oil. Shea but butter was 1,867,254 th. All that will change. Buy futures now at the low low.
We are without dialog, fred, because everyone has read this thread and run out to corner the Shea Nut Butter market! It's the Next Big Thing, ya know!
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David- At last. i am a major influence in the world.
I thought you always were a major influence, fred!
David- Thank you. But nothing could compare to this. i feel we should put this dialog on a parchment scroll and hide it in a mid-eastern cave on the other side of the Atlantic. i have heard nothing like this since the Rollins-Coltrane duel on "Tenor Madness. Rollins finger sliped off a Bb key, by now everyone knows what caused the slip.
Proof positive that the new paradigm of shea butter is in place and everyone was out buying it. If not surely someone would have seen the previous flaw. If Coltrane was the master and winner of the chase, how come it was Rollins whose finger slipped? Wasn't Trane also the master with the most butter? The latter is the truth. Although Rollins was using some shea butter, Coltrane was the absolute master of the butter and music, all ten of Coltranes fingers and his mouth and throat simultaneously slipped. Setting forth a spew of arpeggios, sheets of sound, glissandi, double and triple tonguing, throat vibrato ala '67 Pharoah Sanders, creating Albert Ayler influenced free music and cememting and putting in place the new shea butter paradigm we all had so long sought, which so perfectly coincides with the natural structural order of the universe. Years later, scientists caught up and erroneously called this shea butter paradigm, "M theory." Proof of William Blakes statement "Art is the tree of life, science the tree of death." All the greatest artists used shea butter. "Science" replaced "Religion", but shea butter has gone beyond them both.
fred!
The question now becomes, "Can we feed the world with Shea Nut Butter?" followed closely by, "Does it spread well on toast?"
David- Yes!and Yes! Shea NUT (caps intended) butter is beyond the new paradigm, utopia, satoti, and nirvana. It is the manifestation of the deepest imbedded secret in the universe. Pareidolia and Shea NUT butter will save mankind!
I am loving it, Mr. fred! Loving! It!