The product · Reference SB-2602
Unrefined Mali Shea Butter
Bulk Grade A
Single-origin from Bamako, Mali. Traditionally extracted, chemical-free and unrefined, so the full sterol and fatty-acid profile survives into the drum — which is precisely what refining removes.
Supplied in 20 ft full-container loads to your preferred European port. You inspect the shipment on arrival and settle the remaining 70 % afterwards.
- INCI
- Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
- Botanical name
- Butyrospermum parkii
- Origin
- Bamako, Mali
- Grade
- A · unrefined
- Appearance
- Solid creamy mass
- Colour
- Beige ivory
- Odour
- Characteristic sweet, nutty
- Category
- Cosmetic and personal-care ingredient
How it is made
Traditional extraction, no chemistry
Selected shea kernels are pounded, roasted, ground and kneaded into a paste. The paste is heated in water so the natural oils separate; the oil is skimmed off and cooled into the finished butter.
No solvent extraction, no bleaching, no deodorising. That is why the material still smells and looks like what it is — and why the unsaponifiable fraction, where the sterols sit, measures in the premium range rather than the refined one.
Measured — independent laboratory
Current production sample
Sample 202601220801 · UBF Untersuchungs- und Forschungslaboratorium GmbH
ISO 17025:2018 · 11.02.2026
These are values measured on one analysed production sample, not a specification range. They tell you what this material actually was on that date. The contractual limits every shipment is held to are in the table below.
Quality and freshness
- Peroxide value (POZ)
- 1.0 meq O₂/kg
- Totox value
- 2.3
- Acid value
- 4.5 mg KOH/g
- Anisidine value
- 0.3
- Water content (Karl-Fischer)
- 0.2 %
- Melting point
- 37.8 °C
- Vitamin E (active)
- 7.4 mg/100g
- Unsaponifiables
- 8.2 %
Fatty-acid profile
- Palmitic acid (C16:0)
- 3.3 %
- Stearic acid (C18:0)
- 42.1 %
- Oleic acid (C18:1 n9)
- 44.5 %
- Linoleic acid (C18:2 n6)
- 6.3 %
- Sum saturated
- 47.5 %
- Sum monounsaturated
- 44.5 %
- Sum polyunsaturated
- 8.0 %
Sterols
- Beta-sitosterol
- 5.1 mg/100g
- Stigmasterol
- 3.0 mg/100g
Specification — Technical Data Sheet SB-2602
What every shipment is held to
Contractual limits and ranges. If a delivered batch falls outside these, it is off specification — that is the number your QA team should write into a purchase agreement, not the sample measurement above.
Physical parameters
- Moisture
- max. 0.5 %
- Anisidine value
- max. 1.0
- Totox value
- max. 4.0
- Peroxide value (POZ)
- max. 2.0 meq O₂/kg
- Acid value
- max. 5.5 mg KOH/g
- Unsaponifiable matter
- min. 6.5 %
- Melting point
- 32 – 42 °C
- Vitamin E content
- min. 5.0 mg/100g
Chemical parameters
- Palmitic acid (C16:0)
- 3.0 – 5.5 %
- Stearic acid (C18:0)
- 35 – 47 %
- Oleic acid (C18:1 n9)
- 40 – 50 %
- Linoleic acid (C18:2 n6)
- 4.0 – 8.5 %
- Linolenic acid (C18:3 n3)
- max. 1.0 %
- Eicosenoic acid (C20:0)
- 0.5 – 3.0 %
- Sum saturated
- 40 – 52 %
- Sum monounsaturated
- 38 – 52 %
- Sum polyunsaturated
- 5 – 10 %
Legislation and statements
Regulatory position
- Regulatory status
- Complies with Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 in all relevant requirements.
- BSE / TSE
- Produced without any animal-derived material. No BSE/TSE risk material contamination is to be expected.
- GMO status
- To the producer's knowledge, not derived from plants subject to genetic modification.
- Irradiation
- Not subjected to irradiation.
- Gluten
- Contains no grain-derived ingredients; can be considered gluten-free.
- Vegan / vegetarian
- Suitable. Manufacture involves no animal product, by-product or ingredient.
- Storage
- Closed container, cool and dry, protected from direct sunlight.
- Shelf life
- Min. 24 months under recommended storage.
Comodi Trade holds no product certification at this time. IFS Food Broker certification is planned; EU-Organic can be sourced on request where a buyer requires it. We would rather name that plainly than imply a certification we do not hold.
Ordering
Terms at a glance
- Container
- 20 ft FCL
- Minimum order
- 18 t (one container)
- Lead time
- 4 weeks to EU port
- Incoterms
- CIF or DAP
- Payment
- 30 % on confirmation · 70 % after inspection
- Shelf life
- Min. 24 months