False shea butter

This shea butter has become a world famous natural product because of its wonderful healing properties. The ordinary people from every nook and corner of the world understand the importance of this shea butter now. In the western cosmetic products, majority of them have this shea butter as an ingredient in them. All this underlines the importance of this shea butter as a commercial commodity. The popularity of this shea butter is ever growing every year. The supplies of this shea butte are limited. Naturally there are false shea butter products also in the market. Let us try to get more info regarding this topic of false shea butter in this short article on this topic.

Let us first think about the supply side of this all important shea butter product. This shea butter is extracted form the shea trees. These shea trees are found wildly growing in the African forests. It is the equatorial region only which can have these shea trees in the forests. The climate and environment are suitable in this region only. There is no other part in the world where these shea trees can be found. This shea tree plant takes nearly fifteen to twenty years to attain the maturity. After this period you will get the first season of these shea fruit nuts.
The full production capacity is reached only after five more years. It is not possible to cultivate these plants artificially and get faster production rate of these shea fruit nuts. The supply and its rate of production have their own limitations.

There are bound to be false shea butter products in the market due to the imbalance in the supply and demand equation. There can be two types of false shea butter products. The first one is the contaminated or adulterated shea butter products. In this case the adulterated products are sold as the pure shea butter products. In the second category there are some trees which have similar fruit nuts. The butter from these fruit nuts is simply passed on as the genuine shea butter. http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.UPWTA.5_61&pgs= is the website where you can get all the technical info regarding this tree.

This tree gives the fruit nuts similar to that of shea butter. These trees are from the family sapotaceae. There are some medicinal properties associated with the fruit butter of these fruit nuts also. There are some fatty acids found in this false shea butter also. It is possible to cheat anybody with this type of false shea butter. It is difficult to understand or recognize the false shea butter from the genuine shea butter by simple appearance or the smell tastes. It is better to buy your shea butter from the genuine and reputed marketer to avoid getting cheated by these false shea butter sellers.

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