What is shea butter? Shea butter is a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree; the shea tree grows naturally in the wild in the dry savannah belt of West Africa.
Shea butter contains the following fatty acids:
- Oleic acid (40–60%).
- Stearic acid (20–50%).
- Linoleic acid (3–11%).
- Palmitic acid (2–9%).
- Linolenic acid (