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  • What is the difference between shea butter and shea nut oil?
  • Shea oil is fractionated from Shea butter; to produce Shea oil, Shea butter is melted, and the oleic oil is removed from the solid parts. The oleic oil is lower in stearic fatty acid content which is what gives shea butter its solid characteristics.
  • Where does shea nut oil come from?
  • Our organically crafted Shea Oil, also called Shea Nut Oil, is extracted from the nuts of the Vitellaria paradoxa (formerly Butyrospermum parkii), commonly known as Shea (Karite) Tree, indigenous to Africa.
  • How do they extract oil from shea nut?
  • Traditional extraction was done by boiling ground kernels of the seeds in water and ladling off the extracted oil. The extracted oil was then filtered and dried at 105 to remove residual water.
  • What is the solvent for shea butter?
  • Shea butter (SB) was extracted from its kernel by using n-hexane as solvent in an optimization study. This was to determine the optima operating variables that would give optimum yield of SB and to study the effect of solvent on the physico-chemical properties and chemical composition of SB extracted using n-hexane.