Shea butter difference

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Shea butter difference

Posted by Xavier4 on July 24, 2020 at 11:42 am

Hi..i would like to ask if the refined and cold pressed shea butter has a big difference??
i would like to know because the result is different in my homemade pomade..please help..thanks

Graillotion replied 3 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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Pharma

Member
July 24, 2020 at 6:37 pm

Natural products have already a rather high batch to batch variability and an even higher one regarding provenance and production process.

Shea butter is a prime example for this. Traditionally, it’s obtained by mashing nuts, cooking them and, once cold, sifting off the floating fat. ‘Modern’ processing is often done by cold (or hot) pressing. The following refining steps/procedures which may be applied to either product are manifold. Bottom line is, there can be (and often is) a HUGE difference between different shea butters and even more so between organic unrefined and highly refined qualities. On the other hand, a quality shea butter pressed with modern equipment and such which is subsequently gently refined just to remove some impurities and discolouration may be fairly similar. These statements may be true for brand A but for brand B only today though not with next years harvest…
Xavier4

Member
July 25, 2020 at 6:15 am

thanks for the information..appreciate it..im waiting for my order which is the previous one..so that i will compare it which one has a different outcome..
thank you Godbless and your family..
Bill_Toge

Member
July 26, 2020 at 7:42 pm

cold-pressed shea and cocoa butter often have crystalline components in them, which are removed in refining

if you melt and re-solidify unrefined butters, this can cause them to give the end product a gritty texture, the severity of which is highly variable depending on how quickly they’re cooled
Graillotion

Member
July 26, 2020 at 10:00 pm

I have found out the hard way….even when comparing refined butters…from one supplier to another there are HUGE differences….from color, to scent, to how quickly they absorb (which was my biggest concern). So at this point…I’ll put a ‘shout out’….to the company I felt…offered the best refined butters I came across in my journeys: ICSC…aka: International Cosmetics Science Centre, out of Denmark. Head and shoulders above the rest.

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Xavier4

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