This article takes a look at tucuma butter for hair as well as benefits, the best ways to use tucuma butter for hair, and the best brands of tucuma butter.
This is a continuation of the natural butters for hair and beauty series, which I launched a few weeks ago. You can read the previous articles about natural butters HERE.
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Tucuma Butter for Hair – Benefits & Uses
Tucuma butter comes from the seeds of the tucuma palm, which grows in Brazil – similar to murumuru butter.
Both tucuma butter and murumuru butter have similar profiles. Tucuma butter is ideal for frizzy, dry, dull, and damaged hair. 3C – 4C hair types would also love this butter.
1. Rich in Polyphenols
Tucuma butter is rich in antioxidant polyphenols, which combats free radicals in the body.
2. Essential Fatty Acids
Tucuma butter is rich in fatty acids that protect and moisturize the skin keeping it supple and looking young; an attribute hair can also benefit from.
3. Tucuma Butter Hydrates Hair and Skin
Tucuma butter helps maintain hydration, suppleness, and elasticity – a boon as body butter and a sealing butter for hair.
4. Tucuma Butter Mimics the Effects of Silicon
Tucuma butter is a vegetable silicon. It mimics the properties of commercial silicone products without any of the harmful effects on hair.
It forms a protective screen on the hair without clogging pores, drying out the hair, or weighing down the hair.
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5. Rich in Beta-carotene
Tucuma butter is rich in beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A; one of the important vitamins for healthier and stronger hair growth.
6. Tucuma Butter Aids Moisture Retention
Tucuma Butter is high in lauric, myristic, and oleic fatty acids – excellent for maintaining moisture in the hair.
7. Tucuma Butter is Perfect for Dry Skin
Tucuma butter is not just for hair. It can also be used on the skin and its properties play a major role in alleviating dry skin, stretch marks, scarring, and other skin conditions.
Tucuma butter is also suitable for sensitive skin.
When compared to the common hair butters, tucuma butter stands out as one of the best butter for hair.
It’s a multipurpose butter that and can be used as a sealing butter after a wash and go, to define a braid out or twist out and to seal in moisture after spraying the hair with products.
When mixed with the right kind of oils, tucuma butter will also provide a bit of shine to hair.
Organic Tucuma Butter
Moisturizing Sealing Tucuma Butter Recipe for Hair
Ingredients
- 2 – 4 oz tucuma butter (or murumuru butter)
- 2 teaspoons of argan oil
- 2 teaspoons of sweet almond oil
- 2 teaspoons of carrot oil
- 2 teaspoons of coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon of vitamin E oil
Directions
- Soften the butter over a bowl of hot water and whip with a fork or whisk.
- Add in all the oils and whisk some more.
- Pour into a suitable jar and put in the fridge to solidify a bit.
Your moisture sealing butter is ready. Apply generously as required for your styles.
If your hair doesn’t like any of the oils above, you can substitute them with these oils – emu oil, carrot oil, avocado oil, olive oil, grape seed oil, and castor oil.
Best Brand of Tucuma Butter
Raw unrefined organic tucuma butter from Celebratio Vitae Organics is a very popular brand and comes highly recommended.
Paris Fragrances & Cosmetics Supplies tucuma butter is another popular brand.
Whichever brand you choose, keep in mind tucuma butter shouldn’t be grainy and should be easier to spread than cupuacu butter.
If the butter is missing these attributes, it may not be original.
3 Hair Care Products with Tucuma Butter for Hair
There are some excellent natural products on the market as well that use tucuma butter in their ingredients and you might find this beneficial to your hair:
OBIA Hair Care Twist Whip Butter
Original Moxie Hair Bling High Shine Pomade
Donna Marie Super Buttercreme
There were a few other brands I found but they had other ingredients that aren’t very agreeable with natural and curly hair.