Heat is known to destroy nutrients in manyorganic substances, including shea butter as well as causethem to oxidize and get rancid faster. Heating does ruin sheabutter BUT if you do it the right way, then your sheabutter will be completely unaffected!
One may also ask, is it safe to melt butter in microwave? Place butter pieces in amicrowave-safe dish. Microwave, uncovered, on100 percent power (high) until butter is melted,about 30 to 45 seconds depending on the amount of butter. Ifyou still have just a few small pieces left in the dish, you canstir the butter until they melt.
Secondly, how do you soften shea butter?
Method 1: Without a Hand Mixer
Place your raw shea butter in a wide heat safe bowl (you canalso use a pyrex glass measuring cup) and place the bowl in a panfilled with a couple inches of water. Once softened turn off the heat and let it cool down or about 2minutes.Can you heat up raw shea butter?
Place a small amount of water in a pot and boilit. Once its boiling, remove from heat andplace the bowl of shea butter over the pot. Instead ofplacing over hot water, you can also microwave sheabutter in a microwave-safe bowl, but you may lose someof the nutrients this way.
