Shea Butter

Got my doors fixed today, and I'm not getting charged. Pretty sweet. All of the doors in the apartment turned out to be broken, and they were beyond repair, so we actually had to get them replaced. This whole thing is so shady. I  don't feel as violated as I would have thought, though. I mean, if I really did get broken into, then it was obviously done over the holidays because they didn't want to do it while we were around. Whoever it was was obviously scared of me, so whatever.

The girls were talking about beauty products again today, and as usual, I had no clue what to say, so I was kind of sitting on the sidelines. Then one of them said something about "Shear butter". The other girl was like "You mean like shee-ah butter." I was like "Shea butter? S-H-E-A butter?"

"Makes your skin as smooth as silk and strong as steal. Put it on your food to make it taste better. Put it on your clothes to change them to a more appetizing colour. Put it on wounds to speed up the healing process. Waterproofs houses. Put it on anything and whatever it is will become better in it's respective category. Only found in the West African nation of Mali. The women use it, and the men use it too. I've got a small bottle on me right here, as a matter of fact. Hand made in the village of Siby. Raw, like it should be. Mix shea butter with anything and it only serves to dilute it's effects. When I use shea soap, I'm clean enough to perform surgery. Anything I touch will become cleaner."

Haha, I had no idea that shea butter was such a thing. When me and my mom were shopping near Christmas, we were walking down the beauty isle, and all of a sudden I'm like  "WHAT! Shea butter! Look! There's a shampoo, conditioner, leave-in conditioner, hand soap, and body wash! WOW!"

Mom thought it was so hilarious to see me get worked up over a girly product, she bought me shea shampoo, conditioner and soap. I've put 'em out on display near the shower. Usually I buy dirt cheap products. I haven't bothered to explain this to my roommate, and he hasn't asked about it.

Eh... The stuff isn't pure, though, and you can tell. If you read the ingredients, it says that they put like, yogurt and weird stuff in it. Still a step over my usual stuff, but it really  isn't comparable to a hard block of shea soap.