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The mystery of shea butter constitutes its principal advantage: it is organic by nature, cannot be cultivated, encourages the development and protection of organic soils and can feed and care for several generations for three centuries.

Shea only grows on 17 countries’ soils under the Sahelian climate with a pluviometer that can reach 1000 mm. From the border between Senegal and Guinea to Sudan, through Mali, the north of Ivory coast, The Burkina Faso, The north of Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.

One does not cultivate the shea tree, but it is however protected by rural populations.

Twenty to twenty five years will pass before a tree can provide with its first fruits and enable to produce 2 to 4 kg of butter a year during 300 years!

Shea tree barks are renowned for its medicinal properties, but careful to those who will attempt to cut the tree to profit from its virtues. The shea tree forces will storm on him or her! Only the male shea, which output is very low (see below) can be cut to make “djembe”, sculptures or fire wood.