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Shea Butter Buyer Guides

Step-by-step procedures written by a manufacturer: how shea butter leaves Nigeria, how to read the certificate that comes with it, how to keep it from going rancid, and how it is refined.

Summary

These guides cover the four procedures every bulk buyer meets: export from Nigeria, reading a COA, storage and N-RBD refining. Each is written from EMI Agro's own export and QC practice. The complete guide to shea butter is the broader overview; the grades explainer is linked below. Every guide ends with a checklist and a way to request a COA or quote.

Step-by-step guides

A guide here is one procedure with numbered steps and one outcome. A shea butter sourcing playbook is a programme of several procedures strung together.

How to Import Shea Butter from Nigeria
Step-by-step
The export-side procedure: NEPC, Form NXP, NESS inspection, NAFDAC and NAQS certificates, customs and loading at Lagos ports.

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How to Read a Shea Butter COA
Explainer
Every line of a certificate of analysis explained, with the red flag for each of the nine parameters and a buyer checklist.

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How to Store Shea Butter to Prevent Rancidity
Step-by-step
Temperature, light, oxygen, moisture and rotation rules for drums, cartons and IBCs, plus PV/FFA monitoring intervals.

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How Shea Butter Is Refined: The N-RBD Process
Step-by-step
Neutralisation, bleaching and deodorisation step by step, and what each step changes in the butter.

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Shea butter grades explained

Grading — Grade A, B and C, unrefined versus refined N-RBD, and adulteration signs — is covered in depth on the grades sub-pillar. Shea butter grades are set at intake by FFA, moisture, colour and odour — the grades explainer shows the thresholds and how to check them.

Shea butter grades explained
Grade A, B and C unrefined shea and refined N-RBD — the thresholds and how to specify a grade on a purchase order.

Read the grades explainer →

Import guides by country

The Nigeria guide is the export-side procedure: what happens before the container sails. Destination-side duty, registration and labelling are a different job.

Import shea butter by country
Destination-side duty, registration, documents and Lagos transit — one verified guide per market.

Open the country guides →

Go deeper: playbooks and tools

When one procedure is not enough, move to a programme or a calculator. The playbooks string several guides together; the tools do the arithmetic; the specification pages hold the numbers.

Frequently asked questions

Manufacturer-direct from Ibadan, Nigeria

Have a procedure question these guides don't answer?

Tell us what you are trying to do — import, test, store or refine — and we will answer with documents, not brochures.

You have just read the buyer guides. The next step is a real lot from the factory that produces it — EMI Agro, with factory-direct pricing and a batch Certificate of Analysis.

  • Trusted manufacturer

    EMI Agro Industries Limited (RC 9364495) presses the butter in Ibadan — we are not a trading company.

  • Competitive factory-direct prices

    Quoted EXW, FOB or CIF — the buyer chooses. You pay the factory, not a chain of middlemen.

  • Export-ready supply

    We ship to European Union, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Southeast Asia, China, India, Middle East, Latin America. Load ports: Apapa (Lagos) or Tin Can Island (Lagos).

  • Documented lots

    40 tonnes per week of finished shea butter, a Certificate of Analysis on every batch, NAFDAC registered and SON approved.

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