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Process Description Of Extracting Shea Butter By Oil Pressing Mechanism
Time:Fri-12-21 hits:
Shea butter is a kind of woody oil obtained by processing the fruits of shea butter through oil presses and other equipment.
Because of the high content of unsaponifiables in shea butter and the advantages of safety and non-toxicity, shea butter is often used as one of the important raw materials for female skin care products.
Shea butter originated in West African countries and is a woody oil plant unique to Africa.
It takes at least fifteen years for the shea tree to grow from seed germination to flowering and fruit. For every 100 kilograms of fruit, you can get 25 kilograms of dry pits, and you can process about 5 kilograms of shea butter.
Processing technology of shea butter in oil press:
The harvested shea butter is washed and sorted to obtain high-quality fruits.
The shea butter is processed to remove the pulp to obtain the inner core, which is the seed. Use a peeling machine to remove the husks of the cleaned shea seeds to obtain the kernels.
The seeds after peeling are crushed, fried, and then pressed with an oil press to obtain shea butter.
After squeezing the oil, the remaining residue can be used as feed. Refining the pressed shea butter, decoloring, degumming and other operations to obtain refined shea butter.
The quality of shea butter obtained from different processing techniques of shea butter is also different. Shea butter is currently divided into five grades in the market, Class A (unrefined shea butter), Category B (refined shea butter), category C (highly refined shea butter), category D (minimum non-pollution level), category E (contaminant shea butter).
Shea butter is classified into ivory white, milky white and yellow according to its quality.
The difference between shea butter and avocado:
Many people think that avocado and avocado are the same woody fat plant, but they are actually two different plants.
Shea butter belongs to the genus Saguaro and the genus Shea, and is native to Africa.
Avocado belongs to the Lauraceae family, and belongs to the genus Avocado. Its place of origin is tropical America.
Therefore, avocado and avocado are the same plant, and shea butter is a different plant.
