Shea Butter Insight The Shea Tree (Butyrospermum parkii or Vitellaria paradoxa ) occurs in a geographical band of sub sarah Countries including Mali, Cameroon, Congo, C^ote d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. In Ghana the tree only occurs in the North of the Country. Trees take time to mature and it usually takes at least 10 years before the trees even flower. The plum like fruit which are green first then brown later contain the nuts which are oil rich seeds that when processed yield a product know as Shea Butter. Genuine Shea Butter should not be confused with another vegetable based butter know as African Butter. Traditionally processing of the nuts was time consuming & arduous involving boiling the nuts, sun drying & then a pulverizing stage. Shea butter has actually been around a long time & was mentioned as being transported in clay pots in camel trains around the time of Cleopatra where it would have been...
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