Shea Butter Uganda ®

About Shea Butter Uganda

Shea Butter Uganda - is a butter obtained from Shea nut trees. Shea
Nut tree is known as ‘moo-yahoo tree’ in the local language of
northern Uganda. It is also called Karite Butter or African Shea Nut
Butter, but in Uganda and southern Sudan it is well known by the name
‘ mo -yahoo’.

Shea nut trees are grown naturally in Uganda, and is considered as
God’s gift to Uganda. The trees start bearing fruit after 15 to 20
years in the beginning and continue to do so every year for the rest
of its life span. Shea nut trees found in Uganda, African savannah,
gives up fruits once in a year. The average life of the Shea nut tree
is more than 300 years and that is why it is considered as God’s Gift
to UGANDA and Africa at large. In other words it is "NATURE’S BEST
GIFT TO UGANDA AND UGANDA’S BEST GIFT TO THE WORLD"

The Shea nut tree is a deciduous tree, about 10 to 15 meters in
height; it has white flowers which cluster at the end of the shoots,
about one meter long. The tree is encased in barriers, which fall to
the ground, and nuts are collected and further processed to make Shea
butter in Uganda.

GURU NANAK OIL MILLS (GNOM) is the only factory successfully
manufacturing Shea butter in East Africa. GNOM has long experience in
oil fats and allied industries and has got the expertise, experience
and the knowledge of how to produce very high quality Pure Natural
Shea Butter Uganda for the world market.


The process – once collected from the fields, Shea nuts are cleaned,
washed, dried in sunshine and are processed at our factory in Lira to
produce natural Shea butter. SHEA BUTTER UGANDA, -a very high value
product. The production process is 100% free from any kind of chemical
treatment . It is a pure , natural and hygienic way of production,
hence the name 100% PURE SHEA BUTTER UGANDA.

There are two main varieties of Shea Nut called Vitellaria Paradoxa
and Vitellaria Nilotica. Vitellaria Paradoxa is produced in West
Africa where as Vitellaria Nilotica is produced only in Northern
Uganda and Southern Sudan. Unfortunately these areas (Northern Uganda
and Southern Sudan), both are currently in states of civil unrest and
so generally this variety is not easily available in the market.

For years, Guru Nanak Oil Mills has promoted and supported the Shea
butter production in Uganda. We educate farmers and play a major role
in enhancing the local economy. We educate and encourages the tribal
folk to protect this rare species of trees - “The Green Gift from GOD
to mankind”.

In past when there were no buyers of Shea nut seeds, Shea butter was
produced using crude methods by rural women. This resulted in very
poor quality and high cost of production, making it unacceptable and
unavailable by foreign markets. But, today Guru Nanak Oil Mills has
the latest machinery and technology for production of Shea butter and
is strategically located near the source of raw materials i.e. in the
heart of “Shea Belt”.

The factory is geared up for Full Scale Production and is well
equipped to cater the International Market demand & for the best
quality, Shea Butter available in the world commonly known as SHEA
BUTTER UGANDA.

Shea butter Uganda has some significant advantages over the common
variety [ The West African Shea Butter (Vitellaria Paradoxa)] in
composition and applications.
Many companies in West Africa use the traditional methods of
manufacturing Shea butter, in which some of the healing properties are
lost.
The SHEA BUTTER UGANDA is very soft in texture and it melts very
smoothly on the body right away, where as the other variety of West
African Shea butter has to be rubbed with hands to create frictional
heat, and sometimes you may need to melt it first before applying on
the body.
Due to our advanced technology and equipment, no chemicals are added
for bleaching the Shea butter.
We guarantee 100% pure organic certified Shea butter.