Organic Wild-Harvested Shea Butter 160 grams - Akamuti

Shea butter is like creamy “food” for the skin, making it smooth and naturally moisturized. Akamuti’s shea butter is organic, wild-harvested, unrefined, unbleached, and fairly traded. 

A body butter suitable for all ages

Shea butter is a rich butter packed with vitamins. It provides the skin with plenty of moisture and is suitable for all skin types, including very dry skin. It is suitable for all ages, from babies to adults.

Ideal for dry and problematic skin

Shea is ideal for irritated, red, hard, or dry skin. The butter is excellent for dry elbows, heels, and lips. It is also beneficial for sunburn, itchy skin, insect bites, eczema, and red baby bottoms. 

The rich shea butter also works excellently as a body butter or massage balm, leaving the skin soft and supple. Thanks to its versatility, it is a popular product for daily skincare all year round. If you have psoriasis, it is recommended that you perform a patch test on the crook of your arm first to make sure you tolerate it. Shea butter stimulates cell renewal.

Firm butter

Shea butter is a firm butter and becomes harder during the winter months, so it is best stored at room temperature. If it is hard, soften it between your hands before applying it to the body. If you prefer a slightly lighter, more fluid butter, you can mix it with a little organic oil, such as coconut oil, argan oil, or almond oil. 

Natural fragrance

The butter’s fragrance is natural; it has a distinctive, lightly nutty scent. No fragrance or anything else has been added. 

Where does shea butter come from?

Shea butter is the fat from the nuts of the wild shea tree, the Karite Nut Tree (Vitellaria paradoxa), which grows in the semi-arid savannas of West and Central Africa, where there is a wealth of local and traditional knowledge about how to make and use shea butter.

The tree can live for up to 300 years. Almost every part of the tree has some practical use. The people who live there call the shea tree “the tree of life”.

The tree’s flower clusters develop into fruit clusters, and the ripe fruits fall to the ground. Inside the outer shell is the fruit kernel, or shea nut. Traditionally, it is women who collect the fruit and carry out the time-consuming work of extracting the fat from the nuts.

The process of making shea butter is a long one. First, the outer flesh is removed, then the nuts are boiled, crushed, sun-dried, and finally roasted and ground before being made into butter.

“Women’s gold”

Akamuti’s shea butter comes from Ghana in West Africa and is produced by a women’s cooperative. It uses harvesting and production techniques that have been used for many thousands of years. Shea butter is an important source of income for these people, and the Fairtrade price enables them to build better facilities for their communities and fund renewable energy projects. In communities where women otherwise have very limited opportunities to earn their own income, this is extremely important both for their personal dignity and their position in society. That is why shea butter is often called “women’s gold”.

Also known as

Shea butter, Karité butter, Karité butter, Shea fat, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, African shea butter, 

Organic and Fairly Traded Unrefined Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii).
Organic and fairtrade shea butter/Butyrospermum parkii - unrefined and unbleached. Nothing else!

Shea butter naturally contains a substance similar to latex, so if you are allergic to latex, you should avoid this butter.

Dark, dry, and cool.

160 grams