Our company  is a direct exporter of Ivory Coast tropical goods such as cocoa beans and coffeee beans. This trade allows us to offer complete services in English for worldwide reliable deliveries of Ivory Coast high quality virgin raw shea butter made in several villages from the north of the country.

We guarantee any time the highest quality and reliable deliveries. We welcome overseas customers to visit us.

Ivotry Coast shea butter information

The shea nuts crop season is from May to October
The shea butter production with the last crop nuts is from May to next March
We produce and deliver all year long but the best period for prices is from May to October because profusion of raw material. That's why we ask our customers to plan deliveries for all the year; we can then purchase and store shea nuts when the prices are the the best.

The unrefined shea butter

Pure virgin raw shea butter produced with traditional methods without any chemical treatment

Traditional shea butter processing method

 - the nuts are sorted
 - the nuts are hand washed
 - the nuts are sun-dried
 - the nuts are pounded with traditional wood pestles or a breaker  
 - the crushed nuts are roasted in large metal pots
 - the roasted almonds are processed in a grinder to produce a brownish paste
 - the brownish paste is processed again between two granite stones
 - the brownish paste is then hand mixed and kneaded during many hours with addition of a small quantity of water. This produces a white/off-white thick foamy substance to obtain finally a whitish paste, the shea butter (This is the churning step we call ''barattage'')
 or
 - in some places the brownish paste is pressed/crushed with a machine
 - the shea butter is added with some water in cauldrons and heated: the impurities fall down (This is purification step)
 - the purified shea butter is decanted and filtered when poured in the clean storage metal drums (This is filtration step)

Traditional village shea butter production steps photos

No chemicals or detergents use during all the processing

Specifications

These are average specifications; they can change slighly depending the season and the batch. The customers can manage their own analysis with a sample of the shea butter.
No mineral oils or any chemical in the shea butter

Insaponifiable matter 5% Min
Impurities: less than 2

* depends of the season; Maximum: 4-5%

Colour of raw virgin shea butter.

Depending the season, the shea nuts origin and the roasting the color can change. Above three colours for same quality raw virgin shea butter.

Packing examples

190 kg (418 lbs) net metal drums
25 kg (55 lbs) plastic cans

Packing in 180 kg net new metal drums or as buyer requirement.
Metal drums are useful because many importers use electric pallets to heat the drums before to empty them.
Packing in 25kg plastic cans + carton for airway deliveries
Packing in 25kg plastic can + parton for postal deliveries

Minimum order and shipping

- container deliveries: one container loads 80-100 x180 kg net drums
- airway deliveries starting 100kg
- postal deliveries by 25kg

Conditions

Deliveries
EXW Abidjan,
FOB Abidjan port
CIF any port

Samples

Free up to 100g but courrier fees at buyer charge

Shea tree nuts

We export also any quantity of almonds of Shea tree. Deliveries for yearly crop starts on July to Abidjan port.18 or 38 metric tons containers available with 80 kg PP or jute bags packaging. Possibility of annual deliveries contracts. Consult us.