Our company is located in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, the second major city of Burkina Faso (West Africa) and central area for agro productions. We belong to a well known Burkina Faso group which allow us to offer complete services in English for worldwide reliable deliveries of Burkina Faso high quality virgin shea butter, deodorized shea butter, organic shea butter and shea nuts

Our products meet the European Union and the USA quality standards.

We guarantee any time the highest quality and reliable deliveries. We welcome overseas customers to visit us and we can meet them also in Europe, China, Canada and the USA.

We welcome professional importers requests for Burkina Faso agricultural products such as Hibiscus Sabdariffa dried flowers, white sesame seeds, cotton seeds, organic hot pepper, organic fresh mangoes, dried mangoes ...

Burkina Faso shea butter information

Burkina Faso is the first producer in Africa of shea almonds and shea butter.
The nuts crop season is from May to October
The shea butter production with the last crop nuts is from August to next April
We produce and deliver all year long but the best period for prices is from June to September because profusion of raw material. That's why we ask our customers to plan deliveries for all the year; we can then purchase and store shea nuts when the prices are the the best.

The unrefined shea butter

Pure virgin raw shea butter produced with traditional methods without any chemical treatment

Traditional shea butter processing method

 - the nuts are sorted
 - the nuts are hand washed
 - the nuts are sun-dried
 - the nuts are pounded with traditional wood pestles or a breaker  
 - the crushed nuts are roasted in large metal pots
 - the roasted almonds are processed in a grinder to produce a brownish paste
 - the brownish paste is processed again between two granite stones
 - the brownish paste is then hand mixed and kneaded during many hours with addition of a small quantity of water. This produces a white/off-white thick foamy substance to obtain finally a whitish paste, the shea butter (This is the churning step we call ''barattage'')
 or
 - in some places the brownish paste is pressed/crushed with a machine
 - the shea butter is added with some water in cauldrons and heated: the impurities fall down (This is purification step)
 - the purified shea butter is decanted and filtered when poured in the clean storage metal drums (This is filtration step)

No chemicals or detergents use during all the processing

Specifications

These are average specifications; they can change slighly depending the season and the batch. The customers can manage their own analysis with a sample of the shea butter.
No mineral oils or any chemical in the shea butter

Insaponifiable matter 5% Min
Impurities: less than 2

* depends of the season; Maximum: 4-5%

Colour of raw virgin shea butter.

Depending the season, the shea nuts origin and the roasting the color can change. Above three colours for same quality raw virgin shea butter.

Other shea butter we export

We export also refined deodorized shea butter and organic certified shea butter. Consult us.

Packing examples

190 kg (418 lbs) net metal drums
25 kg (55 lbs) plastic cans

Packing in 190 kg (418 lbs) net metal drums or as buyer requirement.
Metal drums are useful because many importers use electric pallets to heat the drums before to empty them.
Other packaging available upon request or for airway deliveries

Minimum order and shipping

- container deliveries: one container loads 100x190 kg (418 lbs) net drums: 19 MT
- we supply also the shea butter by airway, DHL and postal sending: consult us

Conditions

Deliveries EXW Ouagadougou,
FOB Abidjan, Tema or Lome ports
CIF any port

Samples

Consult us

Shea tree nuts from Faso

We export also any quantity of almonds of Shea tree. Deliveries for yearly crop starts on July to Abidjan, Tema or Lome ports.18 or 38 metric tons containers available with 80 kg PP or jute bags packaging. Possibility of annual deliveries contracts. Consult us.