Not long ago I said one of the beauty secrets of the countries that dominate the Miss Universe contest may be eating lots of mangoes.

They're very popular in Puerto Rico, The Philippines, and Venezuela.

Mangoes contain lots of beta-carotene, which makes skin "glow" with an enhanced yellow/orange color.

Scientific studies show people find that enhanced sunny colors attractive in people of all races.

But mangoes also contain another beauty "secret." 

Their Seeds Contain a Rich, Healthy "Butter"

They contain a fantastic oil that nourishes and sustains your skin's health and beauty.

Just run them through a machine to crush them, and expeller-press them to create mango butter. It's also known as mango kernel fat.

The seeds are first dried in the sun. Then they are de-shelled, decorticated - and the butter extracted.

It is possible to use hexane to chemically extract the oil, but that leaves behind a residue of hexane.

Avoid any mango butter extracted with hexane or any other chemical.

The butter should have a warm, creamy color.

Mango Butter is Popular in the Cosmetics Industry

It gets added to commercial skin products:  baby creams, suncare balms, hair products, and other moisturizers.

Mango Butter is an All-Round Skin Healer and Beauty Enhancer

It's good for dry skin and related conditions: scaly, flaky, ashy skin, chafing, chapping, rashes, cracked heels and skin in other places, tough or rough skin, eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, peeling, sunburn, aging damage, rashes, insect bites and stretch marks.

It's perfect for infants and other people with sensitive skin.

In practice, mango butter benefits your skin like a terrific beauty oil, though it's solid at room temperature. 

It should melt upon contact with your skin and is absorbed without leaving behind an oily residue.

However, it does leave behind a thin layer that coats the skin to keep moisture within. 

That makes it an emollient, which means it moisturizes your skin. It also has antioxidants and is helpful for healing wounds. It also helps protect your skin from photodamage caused by the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight.

It also works to moisturize your dry, brittle frizzy unmanageable hair and scalp, nourishing the hair shaft.

Mango butter contains essential fatty acids. This helps protect and nourish your skin's cells, reducing wrinkles, fine lines, and crow's feet at the corners of your eyes. Reportedly it's recommended by at least some dermatologists for that purpose. 

These EFAs help restore the skin's flexibility. It regenerates damaged skin as well as relieving dry and scaly patches. 

It can also be used as a lip balm and a lotion bar.

Now Popular in Many Tropical Countries, the Mango Came From India

The mango (Mangifera indica) is a tree that grows in tropical and subtropical areas, originally in India. It doesn't survive frosts. It gets up to fifteen to thirty meters (fifty to one hundred feet) tall. It is so long-lived, the trees can keep producing fruit for over three hundred years.

There are over four hundred known varieties. All of them are in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. 

A Favorite Around the World

Mango is the national fruit of India, Pakistan, and The Philippines. It's the national tree of Bangladesh.

The skin of the ripe fruit is bright yellow, and some have a reddish tinge. The fruit is oblong shaped, about the size of a squashed iPad if you could squash one smoothly. The flesh is a bright yellow, because of all the beta-carotene it contains, and is delicious, sweet, and acidic. 

Some people like to eat the fruit before it's ripe when the skin and the flesh are still green.

The largest producer of mangoes is India. However, almost all of its mangoes are consumed within India, so it supplies only one percent of the world's international supply.

Why Mango Butter is so Healthy and Beautifying

It's also an anti-inflammatory, soothing your rashes and red, inflamed, and irritated skin.

The antioxidants in the mango are free radical scavengers that help protect the skin from the UV radiation of sunlight, plus wind, air pollution, pesticides, cigarette, and fire smoke. 

The butter contains a lot of oleic acids, stearic acid, and Omega-9. It has about 45 to 50% saturated fat. The rest is unsaturated fat, about 40 to 46% monosaturated. The rest is Omega-6 essential fatty acids.

The fatty acids in it: Palmitic acid, C16:0; Stearic acid, C18:0; Oleic Acid, C18:1; Linoleic Acid, C18:2; Arachidic acid, C20:0.

Phytochemicals in the mango peel and pulp: triterpene and lupeol.

Mango peel pigments include carotenoids, such as the provitamin A compound, beta-carotene, lutein, and alpha-carotene and polyphenols. Those include quercetin, kaempferol, gallic acid, caffeic acid, catechins, and tannins. Also, mangoes contain a unique xanthonoid called mangiferin.

Mango leaves contain such polyphenols as xanthonoids, mangiferin, and gallic acid.

How to Use

Apply mango butter once a day to your face and to any dry, chapped, or rough areas of your skin. 

Within four to six weeks, you'll see a lot less wrinkling.

It has a shelf life of two years if stored in a cool, dark place.

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