Cassandra Can’t Get Enough Of This Livara Chocolate Ruby Shea Butter

When it comes to skin care, I am a champion for a minimalist, natural approach. Have you seen old photos of your grandparents? Beautiful skin with the least interventions. Granted our way of living is different from theirs (what we eat, pollutants, stress have all made a mess of things) but it can’t be a bad thing to do the opposite of The Most sometimes.

One of my go to’s for body oil is olive oil. It’s a little heavy but it’s magical and it takes care of everything from head to toe. The other is Shea butter; that’s what we are here to talk about. In particular the one from Livara. One of the reasons people love Shea butter is that it is not greasy. When you put it on your body it blends really well with your skin, leaving no sticky or shinny residue behind.

How Livara’s Shea butter is different

The Flavours

Unlike ALL the Shea butters I have seen on the market, Livara has flavours. There’s a blue one and a purple one; each with a different name and promise. One is best for dry skin, the other for oily skin. The one I got, Chocolate Ruby (yellow) is fine if your skin is neither of the 2. The tin also says it is good for pimple prone skin. Kudos to the copy writer. I do feel edible as I put it on.

Chocolate ruby also isn’t just Shea butter. It’s a blend of papaya oil, a ‘pinch’ of cocoa butter and fragrance. I am told that Shea butter might make your skin darker and the extra stuff is added to counteract that.

The smell

If you’ve used Shea butter you know it has that-I’m going to go with nutty. That nutty smell. You get so used to it though, you even stop even smelling it.

In Chocolate Ruby, they added a “Chocolate chip cookie” fragrance. Do you want to walk around smelling like chocolate? On initially smelling the scent in the shop I thought no, but Shakira (I remember her name because of Shakira the musician) said it’s not overwhelming once you put it on your body. She did not lie and I’ve grown to like it.

The consistency/texture

This is one of the more special things about this Shea butter. It melts really easily over your hands. The word butter is very apt. I suspect it is this soft because it has been whipped just right but also because of the other oils (jojoba and papaya). Normally with raw Shea butter you need to rub it quite a bit till it melts and spreads evenly. More so if it’s a particularly cold day. You don’t need to do that here.

The verdict? Chocolate ruby feels really good on the body and the hair, and the lips! I cannot speak to its use on the face because I only do that about once or twice a week (don’t want to antagonize face). And it smells awesome.

But in the 1 month of using it, I can say that it has the same effect as the other lesser priced Shea butters on the market-it keeps your skin nice and moist. The 30k tin of Livara goes for about 15k from other brands.

Will you give Chocolate Ruby, or the other Livara flavors a go? Or have you tried them? What was your experience? Let us know.

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