Murumuru Butter for Curly Hair Care: Benefits, Uses and the Best Brand

This murumuru butter recipe for hair is excellent as a sealing butter and can also be used as a hair styling butter with a few modifications.

This is a continuation of the natural butter for hair and beauty series. You can read the previous articles about natural butter HERE.

In this article, we’ll be taking a look at murumuru butter for curly hair, the benefits of murumuru butter, murumuru butter benefits, and where to buy authentic murumuru butter.

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What is Murumuru Butter?

Murumuru butter is derived from the seeds of the murumuru palm tree, which grows in Brazil. The tree is an important source of food and materials locally.

This helps contribute to the economic growth of the region. Traditionally, the seeds from the murumuru palm were used to soften and protect hair.

Murumuru butter is odorless and white to yellowish in color. It is similar to tucuma butter and makes for an excellent combination.

Murumuru butter is used in creams, lotions, and lip balms for hair and skin.

Benefits of Murumuru Butter for Hair 

• Murumuru butter has highly moisturizing properties that can help lock in moisture and protect hair.
• Murumuru butter has a structure, which forms a film around hair similar to silicone except it is non-comedogenic meaning it doesn’t clog the pores.
• Murumuru butter is rich in lauric, myristic, and oleic acid, a composition similar to coconut oil – properties useful for penetrating the hair cuticle and fortifying the strands.
• The butter’s high vitamin A and C content helps hair restore and maintain elasticity.

How to Use Murumuru Butter

You will need murumuru butter, tucuma butter, argan oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, and vitamin E oil.

Step 1

Add about 1.5 oz murumuru butter and tucuma butter into a bowl, then soften in a hot water bath. If you like cupuacu butter, you can try adding that in as well or substituting tucuma butter with it.

Step 2

Once all the butter is soft and pliable, whisk thoroughly with a fork until creamy.

Step 3

Add in 1 teaspoon each of argan oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, and vitamin E oil. Whisk again until smooth and pour into a suitable jar like this one.

Use as body butter or sealing butter. You can also pour it into this cute tin to keep in your bag and use as a lip balm or hand cream on the go.

There’s a handy recipe card with notes at the end of this article as well. You can print that to have on hand when you’re ready to make the recipe.

Where to Buy Murumuru Butter?

Look for raw and unrefined murumuru butter that was obtained via sustainable sources in Brazil. Below are some of the best recommendations.

Sheanefit Virgin Murumuru Butter

Oslove Organics Murumuru Buter

Vitae Organics Murumuru Buter

Get murumuru butter with free shipping when you sign up, risk-free, with Amazon Prime HERE. 

Murumuru Butter Hair Pomade

Yield: 4 oz tin

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: Simple

This murumuru butter pomade is excellent as a sealing butter and can also be used as a hair styling butter for braid-outs and twist-outs with a few modifications.

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Materials

• 1.5 oz murumuru butter
• 1.5 oz tucuma butter
• 1 teaspoon of argan oil
• 1 teaspoon of sweet almond oil
• 1 teaspoon of avocado oil
• 1 teaspoon of coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon of vitamin E oil

Tools

• Silicone mixing bowl
• Spatula
• 4 oz Cosmetic tin

Instructions

1. Measure the murumuru butter and tucuma butter into the silicone bowl, and break apart with the spatula. (see note 1)
2. Set the silicone bowl in a hot water bath.
3. Once the butter is soft and pliable, remove it from the hot water bath and start whisking with a fork or hand mixer.
4. Add in the argan oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, and vitamin E oil (see note 2).
5. Whisk again until smooth and creamy then scoop into the cosmetic tin.
6. Use this pomade as body butter or hair sealing butter. You can also use it for braid-outs and twist-outs. (see note 3)

Notes

1. You can swap tucuma butter with cupuacu butter
2. You can swap sweet almond oil with grapeseed oil and you can also add 1 teaspoon of rosehip seed oil if you want to use it exclusively as body butter
3. This pomade can also be scooped into this cute tin and used as a lip balm.

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