*raises hand* I have a latex allergy (which totally sucks), and I googled 'shea butter latex allergy' and got 15,200 hits (ouch). Seems that shea butter is made from a tree nut and contains natural latex, so both nut/latex allergies react to it.

Nasty. Thanks for posting this in your journal, because otherwise, I might have been ignorant enough to try using shea butter lotion, and I shudder to think what might have happened...so, thanks, taselby, for your info, and thanks k, for your question.