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The butter that lets 'all natural' and 'actually works' share a label.
means A fat pressed from the nuts of the African shea tree, used to moisturize skin and hair and as a cooking fat in parts of West Africa.
from The word comes from 'sési' or 'sé', the name for the tree in Bambara and related Mande languages of West Africa, where the butter has been extracted and traded for centuries. European traders and botanists picked up the local name — it's one of the rarer cases of a cosmetic-aisle word that kept its African origin largely intact rather than being filtered through Latin or French.
- source
- Pressed from nuts of the African shea tree
- melt point
- Solid at room temp, melts right at skin temp
- harvest labor
- Mostly hand-processed by women's cooperatives in West Africa
- shelf life
- Stays stable for years without refrigeration