Shea Butter

The fruits of the shea tree have a high content of edible oils that have been processed into shea butter for as long as history documents. There are reports from the 14th century about regional trade of shea butter across West Africa and in the late 18th century the Scottish explorer Mungo Park noted the great importance of shea butter in Mali and Senegal.

The fatty extract from the seed of Shea nut is called Shea Butter which is known to contain a number of ingredients with biological activity. These biological activities include moisturizing abilities and healing fractions for the healing of minor skin ailments. Shea Butter is mainly used in Cosmetics, Personal care, Food and Healthcare industries.

Shea butter contains natural anti-inflammatory agents and minor sunscreen agents that have been clinically proven to transform the skin in as little as 4-6weeks. The use of natural Shea Butter effectively treats blemishes, itching, sunburns, small skin wounds, eczema, skin allergies and wrinkles.

What sets Shea Butter apart from other oils are its exceptionally large healing fractions. Due to its high potency to heal, including containing Vitamin A, Cosmetics industries globally include Shea as the healing component of their creams.

The Food Industry uses Shea in confectionaries such as biscuits and chocolates, as well as in pastries, margarine and other products that usually contain vegetable fats. Chocolate producers use Shea butter as a substitute for cocoa butter in their products. As a result of its varied uses, Shea butter is a highly sought after product, locally and internationally.

The popularity of Natural Personal Care & Beauty products have been on the rise lately, particularly in Europe and America with consumers focusing on certifications. We want to take the attention of consumers away from the certifications to focus more on the realities of results obtainable from the use of nature’s unadulterated gifts to our world. It’s been used by native west Africans for ages in its crude form and the result has been the same for generations. Our Shea Butter is handcrafted, achieved by employing traditional methods of hardworking rural women, following a step by step age-long systematic process from the picking of the nuts through packaging and standardization. The result we have today is premium quality shea butter achieved through training on improved traditional methods and support for the rural women at the bottom rung of the production ladder of this magical beauty product.

• Nigeria has the highest concentration of shea trees and therefore the highest capacity for producing shea butter. This guarantees our ability to cope as your demand increases.

• Buying from us guarantees premium quality always because the rural women have been trained and equipped through a GIZ-EoPSD intervention, and are skilled in latest techniques to guarantee premium quality.

• Buying from us guarantees the rural women who produce the butter sustained economic power to take care of their families.

• Buying from us guarantees 100% natural handcrafted shea butter with no additives.

• Buying from us guarantees traceability always from the picking of the nuts right through the production of the shea butter. SIL has full control of production chain.

• Buying from us guarantees sustainability by allowing us to continue to invest our profits in the communities we work with, protecting the trees and improving quality and capacity