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Shea butter, natural unrefined. Shea butter is also called African Karite butter. This unrefined butter is expressed from the pits of the fruit of the African butter tree. This butter is smooth and its color may range from very light beige to yellow/green, the color may vary from batch to batch. Unlike our refined shea butters, this butter has a an odor which will also vary from batch to batch. We do not accept returns because you do not like the color or odor; if you have concerns, please order a sample first.
Our shea butter is cold expeller pressed and carbon treated to remove the impurities. It is not solvent extracted, but mechanically extracted. This unrefined shea butter does not go through extra carbon treatment steps as our refined shea butters do. There are no impurities left whatsoever. Shea is extremely moisturizing and gentle to the skin. In soaps, it gives a very luxurious feel to the finished product. It can also be added to creams and lotions or used alone for massage, skin cream, applied directly on small skin burns or applied to hair. Shea butter is remarkably high in unsaponifiables, up to 11%, making it a superfatting material for soapmaking. To use in soapmaking (2-5% of your total fats and oils) melt the shea butter with the other solid fat. To superfat with shea butter add 1-2/3 tablespoons per 5 pounds of soap, melted and cooled to approximately 75 deg.F (24 deg.C) just before adding the scent. SAP value: 180.0. INCI: Butyrospermum parkii.
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Katrina Turner (Sacramento, CA, US) | January 31st, 2013
In my family we have a variety of skin disorders ranging from mild ichthyosis to eczema and a combination of Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, Jojoba, Babassu, Olive Oil has been a downright miracle. This has also worked wonders in our hair ranging from 2B- 4C.
Latiqua Gathers (Hollywood, SC, US) | July 23rd, 2012
This shea butter is absolutely amazing! I use it on my skin and hair just about everyday! My 4c natural hair is very greatful to Camden-Grey for this high quality shea butter!! It makes my hair soooo soft, and my twistouts come out amazing! So many uses and such a wonderful product. If you've never had actual unrefined shea butter, make your next move your best move and get you some of this!!
Robin Hutchings (Nampa, ID, US) | December 5th, 2011
This is the real deal. If you are thinking of trying Shea butter, you must try this. The smell is heavenly, it melts like a dream and in body butters, lotions, balms and lip products you cannot beat it. This stuff is the best!! Will be putting in a order this week for more.. love love love it!
Stephanie Tucker (Pensacola, FL, US) | November 7th, 2011
I was used to buying the yellow Shea butter, but upon further investigating I found that yellow is not the best quality. This shea butter is GREAT! It has hardly any odor, and is a nice off-white color. It's the real deal people, and worth every penny!
Michelle Touchstone (Miami, FL, US) | June 18th, 2011
I was so happy when I received my order of unrefined Shea Butter from Camden Grey yesterday. I haven't stopped touching it! It's beautiful! It has a beautiful ivory color and a faint pleasant scent. It feel delightful in my hand and is most certainly a top quality product. The look, feel, (and price!) is hard to beat! Thank you Camden Grey!
Jolene Mathew (Biloxi, MS, US) | February 7th, 2011
I am very pleased with this product. I have used it in my cold process soap and lip balms. It gives that extra moisture to both soap and lip balms. In raw firm, a little dab will moisturizes my whole hand. I love the luxurious creamy feel from this product!
Anna-Lisa Baksmaty (Chicago, IL, US) | December 31st, 2010
I am from Ghana, one of the major producers of shea butter and can say from my experience with the real deal at home that this shea butter is authentic! Why it has the distinctive shea butter smell, it is not offputting like some of the lesser quality ones I have encountered. Within a week of purchasing I have made soap and whipped butters - super moisturing...
Mignon Wilson-Haggans (St Petersburg, FL, US) | October 5th, 2010
There are many types of "Shea Butter" out there, but according to my research, those with a either yellow or pure white color are not authentic shea butter. I can say that this is the real deal. The texture is creamy, and the color is an off white, ivory color. That is what you want to look for in a shea butter. Camden-Grey has the real stuff!
Shauna Lewis (Groton, CT, US) | September 17th, 2010
I searched for months for this product. It was so difficult to find 100% shea and I found it here. I thought the quality would be poor for the price but I was pleasantly surprised. I have extremely dry skin and this product worked miracles. I have 2 small children and it worked wonders on their skin also. It's definatly a keeper.
Judy (Cranston, RI, US) | September 15th, 2009
This Shea Butter is just lovely - firm but not brittle, a beautiful off-white color and just the light shea scent - not overpowering like some I've purchased before. Creamy and melts
on contact with the skin - this is wonderful Shea.
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Please note that we do not allow order cancellations for any reason and we don’t allow removal/cancellations of products which become partially or completely out of stock after the customer places an order.
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HOW OILS ARE DISPENSED: All our products are dispensed by weight. EO's in 8 oz. through 2 lbs. - amber plastic pharmaceutical-grade bottle. EO's in 5 and 10 lbs. - heavy duty plastic container w/pouring spout, the oil may remain inside the container at least 2 months. EO's in sizes of 25+ lbs. - industry-standard metal or plastic can with a pouring spout, the oil may remain inside the metal can indefinitely and up to 2 months in the plastic pail. It's our decision in which type of pail we dispense the product, metal cans are not readily available. CARRIER OILS - plastic bottles/pails depending on the size ordered, do not need to be transferred to glass unless you wish to do so. FO's - in plastic containers, contents do not need to be transferred to glass unless you wish to do so.
Essential oils in sizes from ½ oz. to 4 oz. are dispensed in amber glass bottles without orifice reducers or glass droppers. If we ever run out of amber glass bottles, we reserve the right to use any other glass bottle available at that time. The only sizes of EO's dispensed with orifice reducers are 1/32, 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 oz. sizes. If you require bottles/vials with orifice reducers or Eurodroppers, we sell those separately.
HOW TO STORE: Upon receipt, EO's dispensed in plastic bottles MUST be transferred into amber glass bottles. EO's, FO's and BUTTERS should be stored in tightly-sealed containers away from direct light and heat. Many oils could be highly flammable, keep away from open flames. Refrigerating butters could adversely affect the consistency of the butter, please join our Forum if you need to learn how to handle and store products.
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