| What is Shea butter? |
| Why Are People Using Shea butter?
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| Is your shea butter unrefined? |
| What color is your unrefined
shea butter? |
Does your shea butter have an
odor?
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| What is the texture of your unrefined
shea butter? |
| How do I store my Sheabutter? |
| What is your Role in Sheabutter
Processing? |
| What Variety of Sheabutter do
you sell? |
| How do you guarantee a consistent
quality of your Sheabutter? |
| Why do buyers favor Sheabutter
from Ghana? |
| What color is your unrefined
shea butter? |
| Who should use sheabutter? |
| What is the shelf life of your
shea butter? |
| Why are your shea prices so
low? |
| What is
your connection to Africa? |
| Do you send
product samples? |
| Do you send
product catalogs? |
| Do you ship outside North America? |
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| What is Shea butter? Shea
butter is a fatty extract from the seed of the Shea Tree. The
extract is known to contain a number of ingredients with biological
activity. This biological activity includes moisturizing and
healing skin ailments. |
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| Why Are People Using Shea
butter? 100 % PURE SHEA butter is a superior moisturizer,
containing remarkable healing properties for various skin aliments.
Unrefined Shea butter has the largest healing fraction and contains
very special natural ingredients that are ideal for healthier
skin. Shea butter contains the one vitamin that is absolutely
mandatory for healthy skin. Additionally, Shea butter contains
several natural natural anti-inflammatory agents and a minor
sunscreen agent. Clinical studies have shown that this product
transforms the skin in as little as 4-6 weeks, into a softer,
smoother, and better looking skin. Those who routinely use shea
butter report a number of other special benefits for skin ailments,
including blemishes, itching, sunburns, small skin wounds, eczema,
skin allergies, and wrinkles. Because of an abundance of healing
ingredients, and its superior moisturizing activity, Shea butter
is in a unique class, as a stand-alone personal care product. |
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| Is your shea butter unrefined?
Yes, traditional methods of processing are used in making our
unrefined shea butter. No chemicals or colors are used to extract
or preserve our shea butter. |
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| What color is your unrefined
shea butter? Our shea butter is an ivory, off-white color
that varies slightly depending on the season. |
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| Does your shea butter have
an odor? Our shea butter is unrefined, therefore it does
have the characteristic nutty aroma of unrefined shea butter. |
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| What is the texture of your
unrefined shea butter? Our unrefined shea butter has a smooth,
creamy texture with no graininess. Who should use sheabutter
Everyone! Every household should have a jar of Shea butter,
either among the beauty supplies for soft smooth better looking
skin, or in the medicine cabinet for minor skin injuries around
the house. |
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| How do I store my Sheabutter?
Store sheabutter and oils away from harsh lighting or sun, in
a cool dark area away from heat. May be refrigerated to extend
shelf life. Raw, unrefined sheabutter has an average shelf life
of 12 to 24 months without the addition of preservatives. The
life of the sheabutter can be prolonged when stored under proper
conditions as outlined below: Keep the unrefined sheabutter
in a cool area, below 50 degrees F Store unrefined sheabutter
in a dark area, away from direct sunlight Do not over heat the
sheabutter when melting and avoid repeat melting Do not leave
the sheabutter in your car with the windows closed. You can
also add natural preservatives, such as vitamin E to extend
the shelf life. Sheabutter must be stored and transported in
cool conditions and in airtight containers to avoid the butter
becoming rancid. |
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| What is your Role in Sheabutter
Processing? SEKAF (GH) Ltd, the sister company of Sekaf
International LLC's main activity is international trade of
tropical raw materials. SEKAF collects shea nut products. The
nuts collected are pretreated to prevent and remove the possibility
of surface molds and also as a precaution to microbiological
contamination. SEKAF (GH) Ltd nuts, from cursory observation
even appear to be of excellent quality and have been confirmed
in our laboratory analysis. We store our nuts in a well-constructed
and maintained traditional storage facility. The sheanut is
very wet when it is picked and the drying process, bagging,
packaging and storage has to be managed efficiently to ensure
that the Free Fatty Acid content remains as low as possible.
Our attention to details in the areas of processing, packaging,
quality control, warehousing and shipments has made our shea
nuts and sheanut products the best in quality. We offer our
high quality, unrefined shea butter at competitive prices. |
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| What Variety of Sheabutter
do you sell? The West Africa Shea Tree variety Vitellaria
Paradoxa. |
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| How do you guarantee a consistent
quality of your Sheabutter? We have adopted the traditional
boiling extraction process to produce a consistently high quality
butter. Part of our secret lies in our long standing and strong
position in Shea nut export industry. We have a well developed
Shea nut buying network which procures high quality nuts. This
experience has meant the nuts used for butter extraction have
been low in fatty acid. |
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| Why do buyers favor Sheabutter
from Ghana? Ghana has a well earned reputation for producing
good quality nuts with low free fatty acid (FFA) content. This
is a reflection of good post-gathering practices. Political
stability of Ghana also means uninterrupted and constant supply.
Since, 1991 the Ghanaian Shea sub sector has had minimum interference
from Government. This contrast with the situation in the Francophone
countries where government investment and control have been
the norm. |
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| What color is your unrefined
shea butter? Our shea butter is an ivory, off-white color
that varies slightly depending on the season. |
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| Who should use sheabutter?
Everyone! Every household should have a jar of Shea butter,
either among the beauty supplies for soft smooth better looking
skin, or in the medicine cabinet for minor skin injuries around
the house. |
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| What is the shelf life of
your shea butter? In our processing facility in Ghana, we
do not keep stock of sheabutter. We process on demand. From
the time we receive the butter it has a shelf life of approximately
24 months. |
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| Why are your shea prices
so low? Sekaf International LLC works with our sister company
Sekaf Ghana Ltd. Sekaf Ghana Ltd owns a processing facility
in Ghana where we employ and train women to process the sheabutter.
There are no middle men between our company and the producers.
We are the producers thus eliminating the middlemen. |
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| What is your connection to
Africa? We are African owned. We have used sheabutter since
our childhood so we know Sheabutter. |
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| Do you
send product samples? |
| Due to the many request for free samples, we
do not offer free samples anymore. We offer 1kg samples for
sale. |
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| Do you
send product catalogs? |
| No. Click here to download our price list. |
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| Do you ship outside North America? |
For shipments of up to 200 lbs outside North America, contact steve@unrefinedsheabutter.com or visit www.unrefinedsheabutter.com for quotations and shipping rates. To buy by ton, contact us at sales@sekafghana.com or visit us at: www.sekafghana.com
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