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Sheabutter FAQ
What is Shea butter?
Why Are People Using Shea butter?
Is your shea butter unrefined?
What color is your unrefined shea butter?
Does your shea butter have an odor? Shea Butter Picture
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
What color is your unrefined shea butter? Our shea butter is an ivory, off-white color that varies slightly depending on the season.
 
Does your shea butter have an odor? Our shea butter is unrefined, therefore it does have the characteristic nutty aroma of unrefined shea butter.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
What Variety of Sheabutter do you sell? The West Africa Shea Tree variety Vitellaria Paradoxa.
 
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.
 
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.
 
What color is your unrefined shea butter? Our shea butter is an ivory, off-white color that varies slightly depending on the season.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
What is your connection to Africa? We are African owned. We have used sheabutter since our childhood so we know Sheabutter.
 
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.
 
Do you send product catalogs?
No. Click here to download our price list.
 
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

 



Sekaf International LLC
Sekaf International LLC is an African owned wholesaler of Unrefined Shea butter. Our product is hand pressed and processed by women in a small village in Ghana. Our Unrefined Shea is light in color and has an exceptionally light smokey aroma
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Fair Trade
Through our adherence to Fair Trade we organized the women in the Northern Region of Ghana into cooperative societies, providing these cooperative societies with interest free loans, credit facilities, training in packaging, labeling and quality control services therefore a higher price for their quality processed products. Learn more.

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Sekaf International guarantees your complete satisfaction with every purchase of our products. If you are not 100% pleased with your purchase, please return it within 15 days for a replacement shipment or a refund.

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