Talk:Shea butter
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[edit] Biased info in "Types" section
the section that describes the difference between "Certified Organic Unrefined and the Refined Version" of shea butter almost sounds like an ad, and sure enough- it's only reference is purelyshea.com, a site that sells "Certified Organic Unrefined" Shea butter. Obviously this one single source is not too viable. If it's not cleaned up soon, should I just go ahead and delete it? --Corgana 11:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Definately. If it's an ad, you should go ahead and delete it right away. Since you have this noted for six months now, I'll go ahead and remove it. Blockhouse (talk) 06:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Supply and "Healing Properties"
Scarcity? My understanding is that shea nut trees are very common and numerous and high-yielding throughout West Africa. Any citations for the scarcity claim?
And the healing properties thing? I would think that she butter's main activity come from it being an oil-based gel, working much like any other moisteurizer such as petroleum jelly - keeping the skin moist by keeping water from evaporating off of it into the air. It might be possible that she butter naturally has small amounts of compounds that my be emulsifiers or surfectants or sterols or something else that might help - but do you really have any sources that show this? Please cite sources.
In the referenced article used to validate Shea butter's claimed anti-inflammatory properties @ PubMed (PMID:15779163),Shea butter is described as an "excepient" - an inactive medicinal base used to carry the active ingredient, which in this case is in actuality the extract of Khaya senegalensis. However, another PubMed article (PMID:14619690) claims that Shea butter released aureomyicn at a faster rate and more easily than other tested excepients (petroleum jelly and lanolin oil), and this is relevant to the Shea butter article as PMID:15779163 is to the article on Khaya senegalensis.70.156.31.116 (talk) 20:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)James D.
"Shea butter is comparably richer than other emollients" Meaning? Richer in what? --Hugh7 (talk) 06:11, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Adding external links
I attempting to include some information on shea butter but my information was deleted. why? I am not advertising, my information was organized just like the other external links.Meaning i was linking to a page within our website, just like other links. this is very frustrating, this is the message I receive: ' "We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Shea do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Versageek 01:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)"'
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Hi - the page you linked to ([1]) is part of a commercial web site, selling various Shea products. The page itself even has a shopping cart and links to your products. Links to your commerical websites are not allowed:
from Wikipedia:External links:
[edit] Advertising and conflicts of interest
Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote sites. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interest guidelines.
If you have additional information to add to the article, why not simply add it rather than having an external link? Adding an external link to your web site when you could easily just add the info directly is considered advertising/ promotion.
About the other exteranl links: I have cleaned up some of the other commerical links in the article. Note that people are continously adding promotional links to this article, only to have them deleted.
Steve 19:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] redirect?
why does karite redirect here?
[edit] Plagiarism?
A lot of the content on this page looks a lot like the content on http://www.naturessheabutter.com/category_s/148.htm#SheaButter101 (which is linked to from this page.) Who copied whom -- and is this OK?? FlyByPC (talk) 15:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
