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  • How to extract shea butter oil?
  • You can make the oil right away or you can store it. To make the oil, the dried nuts are cracked, roasted and milled. Water is added to draw out the shea butter which is then boiled to evaporate out the water. The oil turns clear leaving a bit of the sediment at the bottom. The oil is definitely floral.
  • Which shea nut is grown in Uganda?
  • It is made from the nuts of the Nilotica shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa ssp. Nilotica) which only grows on the remote savannahs of Northern Uganda and South Sudan. Shea butter is a product traditionally made by hand by the women in rural villages to use as a food and cosmetics oil.
  • What is the solvent for shea butter?
  • Shea butter (SB) was extracted from its kernel by using n-hexane as solvent in an optimization study. This was to determine the optima operating variables that would give optimum yield of SB and to study the effect of solvent on the physico-chemical properties and chemical composition of SB extracted using n-hexane.
  • How to dry shea nuts?
  • Alternatively, the shea nuts can be oven-roasted or smoked to dry them out; however, this method has its risks, like increasing the carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the extracted shea butter. The shea nuts can also be sun-dried directly without boiling in water.