Organic Guinean Shea Butter

  • Exceptional product
  • 100% pure and natural
  • Limited edition
  • Ecocert
  • Organic Cosmetic
Ideal as a nourishing and protective treatment, this raw shea butter is sourced from small producers in Upper Guinea and crafted by hand using traditional methods. It stands out from regular raw shea butter thanks to its light colour and naturally gentle scent. With its melting texture and richness in unsaponifiable compounds, it is perfect for nourishing, repairing and protecting dry or sensitive areas, rough hands or chapped lips. It can also be blended with carrier oils, essential oils or fragrances to create customised balms for the face, body or hair.

Dry hair

£10.00

1 item = 200 ml

Price per L = £50

Organic Guinean Shea Butter
Organic Guinean Shea Butter
stamp 100% PURE AND NATURAL

Dry hair

Presentation

Properties and uses

In practice

Features

Composition

Traceability and analysis

Storage and precautions

Special product

Presentation

Our commitments

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stamp 100% PURE AND NATURAL

Why we love it

  • Produced by a fair trade network of small-scale producers, using traditional craftsmanship.

  • Pleasant melting texture and gentle fragrance

  • Exceptional care for dry areas and damaged skin

  • Intensely nourishes, protects and softens skin and hair

Environmental qualities and characteristics product sheet

Reference

0486001 - 200 ml Organic Guinean Shea Butter

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Main packaging material

RPET (recycled PET) pot

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Recyclability

Most packaging can be recycled

Properties and uses

Skin care

Hair care

Product benefits

Properties

  • Nourishing and protective, this butter prevents dehydration.

  • Softening and moisturising, it brings comfort to dry skin

  • Restorative and regenerating

  • Soothing, it is ideal for delicate skin

  • Helps to combat signs of skin ageing

Indications

  • Treatment for dry, flaky skin

  • Treatment for dehydrated skin

  • Treatment for mature skin

  • Treatment for sensitive, irritated, or damaged skin

  • Treatment for skin exposed to harsh conditions (cold, wind, sun, shaving irritation…)

  • Lip treatment

  • Treatment for foot cracks and calluses

Uses

Organic Guinean shea butter is very easy to use:

  • Pure, as a treatment for dry or damaged areas, lips, hands, feet, as a nourishing and protective cream against the cold, as an anti-chafing cream

  • In combination with carrier oils, oily actives, essential oils, or fragrances, to make treatment balms, massage balms, etc.

  • This 100% pure and natural shea butter can also be used as an ingredient in your own homemade cosmetic recipes:

    • Nourishing butter

    • Nourishing body or face treatments: balms, creams, lotions, etc.

    • Moisturising face cream

    • Hand or foot cream

    • Lip balm or stick

    • Nourishing lotion

    • Baby balm

    • Massage or aromatherapy balms

    • Anti-stretch mark treatment

    • Cold process soaps

In practice

I make my own personalised treatments

Practical guides and precautions

Follow best production practices when making your cosmetics

Customisation table

Check out the different dosages of cosmetic active ingredients, natural fragrances or essential oils, carrier oils and colourings and easily customise your Organic Guinea Shea Butter.

This Organic Guinean shea butter can be used:

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  • in its pure form as a treatment for the face, body, or hair: take a small amount of butter in your fingertips, soften it slightly if necessary by warming it between your fingers or palms, then apply by gently massaging into the affected areas.

  • Customise using our practical guide.

  • Use it as an ingredient in your homemade cosmetic recipes, by melting it in a bain-marie and incorporating during the oil stage.


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Step 1

Melt the Organic Guinean Shea butter.

Step 2

Add your active ingredients, essential oils, carrier oils or fragrances and blend.

Step 3

Pour into a jar, leave to set in the fridge, label, and you're ready to go!

Features

Culture

  • Wild

  • Organic

Quality

100% pure and natural butter

Production process

Traditional process: manual churning of the shea kernel paste

Part of the plant used

Fruit

Botanical name

Vitellaria paradoxa (syn. Butyrospermum parkii)

Composition

Ingredients : Butyrospermum parkii butter* *Ingredient sourced from Organic Farming. 100% of the total ingredients are from Organic Farming. COSMOS ORGANIC certified by Ecocert Greenlife according to the COSMOS standard available at https://cosmos.ecocert.com

Traceability and analysis

Organoleptic properties

  • Appearance: solid butter at room temperature

  • Colour: ivory to light beige

  • Odour: characteristic of raw shea but very mild, without strong animal notes

  • Texture: rich and melting

This shea butter is raw, unbleached, unrefined, and undyed. However, due to the unique terroir of Upper Guinea and the traditional production process, its colour is naturally much whiter than the classic raw shea butter from Burkina Faso or Mali, and its scent is also milder and more pleasant, while still characteristic of an unrefined butter. Its texture is also slightly softer and melts more easily than our Organic Raw Shea Butter.

Storage and precautions

Storage

Keep in a dark, cool and dry place.

Precautions

Do not swallow. Keep out of reach of children. In case of contact with eyes, rinse with plenty of clean water.

Special product

The shea tree Butyrospermum parkii is an endemic species of Africa that only grows in the wild. Its fruits are collected from the ground at full maturity, as it is when the fruit falls from its branch that it yields the maximum amount of oil molecules.

The nuts for Guinean shea butter are harvested in natural reserves in Middle Guinea, a region of mountainous plateaus in eastern Guinea Conakry. After harvesting, the shea fruits are depulped and only the nuts are retained. The nuts are washed, dried, and then hand-sorted. They are cracked open to retrieve the precious kernels inside.

Responsible Person

  • EU responsible person: Aroma-Zone FR-84220 Cabrières d’Avignon

  • UK responsible person: Obelis UK Ltd, Sandford Gate, Oxford, OX4 6LB, UK

Opinions

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