Shea Butter Oil Extraction: Methods for Superior Quality

Author: Geoff

Sep. 08, 2025

Machinery

Shea Butter Oil Extraction: Methods for Superior Quality

Shea nut is the fruit of African shea tree. Like avocado, shea nut has delicious flesh. The fat contained in the kernel of shea nut is shea butter, which takes up about 40% ~ 55%. Each mature shea tree produces only 15 to 20 kilograms of shea per year, which can only survive on the African continent due to climatic and plantation reasons. (Read more: Cooking Oil Machine for Sale in South Africa >>)
 

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Shea Butter Extraction Technology

Shea butter has three colors: ivory, beige and yellow. The darker the color, the better the effect. More than 90% of shea butter is supplied to the world's major cosmetics companies, such as international famous cosmetics companies L‘Oreal Paris, Doublebaby, DHC, The Body Shop, Swiss Legend, etc.

In countries where shea tree is planted, setting up an oil mill plant to produce high quality shea butter would be profitable since the high value of shea butter and its wide applications in cosmetics, food, medicine and etc. ABC Machinery has developed into one of the largest cooking oil press machine supplier in China. For shea butter extraction, we provide different oil extraction technologies and equipment to meet different requirements. If you are interested in shea butter oil processing, here is what you need.

Low Temperature Shea Butter Oil Extraction – Hydraulic Oil Press

Hydraulic oil press machine has many features, like simple structure, high quality oil cake, less energy consumption, so it has been widely used to process shea butter. The main equipment for shea butter oil extraction plant by hydraulic oil press: conveyor, crushing machine, conditioning machine, hydraulic oil press, cake crusher, plate and frame oil filter, etc. If you are interested in buying the hydraulic oil press machine for your shea butter oil processing business, just contact us directly to get the machine parameters and price list!


Cold Pressing Shea Butter Oil Press Machine

The shea butter oil extraction process


Shea Butter Cold Oil Pressing Process
  • The fine particle powder (35 ~ 40 mesh) of crushed kernel was tempered (60℃ ~ 70℃) to adjust the squeezed moiture not more than 5%. Then, the flaked cake (5 ~ 7kg for each flaked) was pressed for the first time (pressure 40 ~ 50mpa, temperature 60℃ ~ 70℃), and the residual oil of the virgin flaked cake was 28% ~ 32%.
  • According to the above process requirements, the virgin cake was broken, tempered and repressed, and the residual oil of the repressed cake was 18% ~ 23%. Repeat for the third and fourth time to press, the final pressed cake residual oil 10% ~ 13%.
  • The shea butter (impurity) is obtained from the low temperature hydraulic press after heat preservation and precipitation and then filtered at 60℃ ~ 70℃. It can be seen from the process of hydraulic pressing that the oil is relatively clear, the crude oil is of light color, the crude oil is of good quality after rough filtration, the acid value, peroxide value and other indicators meet the requirements, the cake color is also relatively light and there is no sign of deepening.
  • Therefore, the subsequent physical refining only needs to carry on the fine filtration and the fine filtration under the heat preservation state of 60℃ ~ 70℃ to obtain the finished product refined shea butter. (Read more: Oil Filter Machine Price >>)

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Screw Oil Pressing for Shea Butter

Screw oil pressing is the most widely used vegetable oil extraction method. It also can be used to extract shea butter oil from the shea nut. The advantage of shea butter oil extraction technology by screw pressing method has large production capacity, high oil output, and continuous oil production. However, the color of oil and oil cake is deep and too many impurities in the oil, so, it requires oil refining process.


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Shea Butter Oil Pressing and Refining Process


Shea Butter Oil Production Process

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