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Cosmetics and personal care
Unrefined butters and carrier oils for formulators, and for brands that want to say where the material came from and be right.
- BUYS
- Cosmetic grade, often unrefined
- ORDER PATTERN
- From a pallet upward
- WHAT MATTERS MOST
- Traceability and consistency
What they buy
- 01
Unrefined shea butter
Cosmetic grade, in cartons or drums, with the collector group recorded against the lot.
- 02
Refined shea butter
Deodorised and filtered where a formulation needs a neutral base rather than the raw character.
- 03
Carrier oils
Smaller volumes for formulators, sold with full analysis rather than a generic data sheet.
- 04
Private label
Packed under a customer's own brand to their specification, with the origin records behind it.
What this market is
Cosmetics is where shea earns its reputation. A brand puts unrefined butter in a jar and tells a story about where it came from, and that story has to survive a customer, a retailer and occasionally a journalist checking it.
That makes traceability commercial rather than decorative. We can tell you which collector group supplied a batch because we bought it at the collection point and kept the lot separate, which is a different thing from a supplier repeating what an aggregator told them.
The other half is consistency. Unrefined butter varies by season and by source, and a formulator needs to know how much variation to expect before they build a product around it. We would rather discuss that honestly at the sample stage than be discovered later.
How it works in practice
- How goods travel
- Sea freight, with part container loads normal here. We do not treat a pallet order as an inconvenience.
- Typical order size
- From a pallet upward. Brands often start small and grow, and we would rather grow with a customer than oversell.
- Traceability
- Per-lot records tying a batch to the group that supplied it. Ask and we will show you what we hold.
- Certification
- We do not hold organic or fair trade certification today. If your buyer requires it, tell us early and we will say plainly where we stand.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Nuts gathered and prepared by a collector group. 
Cracking and sorting before purchase. 
Unrefined butter, the colour it actually is. 
Cartons packed for a cosmetics buyer. 
Lot labels kept with the batch through storage. 
Samples drawn for analysis before shipment.
If a brand is going to tell its customers where the shea came from, the answer has to hold up. So we keep the records that let it.
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OTHER MARKETS
Formulating with shea?
Tell us the grade, the volume and what you need to be able to claim. We will send a sample and the records behind it.