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FYI: The main photo of a light-colored shea butter in a wooden bowl is a stock photo purchased online. The second photo of a yellowish/creamy colored shea butter was taken from an actual sample from the manufacturer of our virgin, unrefined shea butter.
Shea butter, virgin, 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. The butter is smooth and its color may range from ivory to very light beige/yellow, the color may vary from batch to batch. Unlike our refined shea butter, this butter has a slight, typical odor which will also vary from batch to batch. We do not accept returns because you do not like the color or odor.
Our shea butter is cold expeller pressed and carbon treated to remove any 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) gently melt the shea butter with any 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. Melting point: 890113 deg. F. 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) | January 1st, 2011
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 18th, 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.
CofA: Download
Thanks for browsing thru this section which contains answers to many questions that are often asked of us. Here we explain where to locate CofA and SDS for a product, how we dispense and package our products, how products should be stored, basic terminology and the wait time for bulk products to ship from our location. REMINDER: All sales are final, orders are non-cancellable. FYI: We're closed on Fridays.
Certificate of Analysis (CofA) and Safety Data Sheet (SDS). We publish on our website those documents for most of our products, some products don't provide either because the product doesn't require it. In this same section where you're at now, please look to the tab to the left titled Documents, click on it and that's where you'll find either document for the product you seek. If you do not find the document you require, please email us at please email us at Customerservice@camdengrey.com so we can research further.
BULK ITEMS: When a customer adds a bulk item to the cart, the customer’s immediately shown on the screen how many number of days should be allowed for the bulk product to arrive at our location with the minimum being 12 business days counting from the business day after the customer placed the order on our site.
TERMINOLOGY:
EO = essential oil
FO = fragrance oil
HOW PRODUCTS ARE DISPENSED...
BOTTLING/PACKAGING:
Essential oils: Are sold only in the quantities/net weights listed on our website. These oils are shipped to us by the distiller or manufacturer in industry-standard metal or plastic containers and that’s how we ship them to you.
Carrier oils and most other liquids are dispensed in individual HDPE plastic pails or containers with some type of handle, each container holds the purchased net weight of liquid.
Soft butters such as Horsetail and Almond are dispensed in plastic HDPE pails w/metal handles; those butters may remain inside the pails indefinitely when properly stored. Hard butters such as Cocoa are dispensed factory-wrapped in plastic and placed inside a box. Castile Gel is dispensed in a self-contained cubitainer with pouring spout.
NOTE: While the packaging methods mentioned above are generalized, we reserve the right to dispense and ship in any available container. If a customer at any time feels more comfortable transferring an essential or carrier oil to glass, this should be done.
Raw materials/ingredients are sold and dispensed by weight. Many customers ask how many ounces are in a pound, there are 16 ounces in one pound. These are not fluid ounces, they are ounces by weight.
HOW TO STORE: EOs, FOs and BUTTERS should be stored in tightly-sealed containers away from direct light and heat. Some EOs and FOs could be highly flammable, keep away from open flames and from varnished or wood surfaces. Keep all liquids and powders you purchase from Camden-Grey tightly capped and away from the reach of children, the elderly or infirm and pets. Refrigerating butters could adversely affect the consistency of a butter, please join our Forum if you need to learn how to handle, work with and store products. The link is towards the top right green section of our pages.
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