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Cold-Pressed

Also written as: cold pressing, cold-pressed shea butter, mechanical expression

Summary

Cold-pressed shea butter is extracted from dried kernels by mechanical pressing alone, with no solvent and no external heat beyond the friction of the press. The method keeps the butter's natural colour, aroma and unsaponifiable fraction largely intact.

Cold-pressed describes the extraction step only — it says nothing about kernel quality, so a cold-pressed butter can still have high free fatty acid if the nuts fermented before pressing. That is why the free fatty acid specification matters more than the press label. Traditional hot-water extraction, by contrast, involves roasting and boiling the kernel paste.

Unsaponifiable Matter

Unsaponifiable matter is the fraction of a fat that does not form soap when boiled with al…

Grade A Shea Butter

Grade A shea butter is the top quality class for unrefined shea butter: low free fatty aci…

Free Fatty Acid (FFA)

Free fatty acid (FFA) is the share of a fat's fatty acids that have broken away from their…

N-RBD

N-RBD stands for neutralised

Full explainer: Unrefined Grade A Shea Butter

Cold-pressed, wild-collected unrefined Grade A shea butter in bulk from Ibadan.

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Last reviewed September 2026 by EMI Agro Industries QC team.